Dear all, Leaves option are tri-folilate or five-fioliate . Your opinion please .
Thank you. Saroj Kasaju *Common name:* Indian Chestnut Vine • Malayalam: vallia-tsjori-valli • Tamil: pirantaikkoti • Telugu: kond draaksha *Botanical name:* *Tetrastigma leucostaphylum* *Family:* *Vitaceae* (Grape family) *Synonyms:* Vitis leucostaphylum, Tetrastigma leucostaphylum, Cissus leucostaphyla ------------------------------ Indian Chestnut Vine is a climber which is hairless except the inflorescence. Stems are sometimes boldly tuberculate. Leaves are usually 3-foliolate, sometimes pedately 5-foliolate; common petiole 2-5 inches long. Leaflets are softly leathery, oblong to elliptic-oblong, tapering to each end, sometimes obovate-oblong, always shortly caudate-acuminate and the edges with remote shallow teeth; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, spreading, slightly winged on the lower surface, length 4.5-6 inches, breadth 1.75-2.75 inches, petiolules 0.4-0.75 inches. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf axils, hairy, spreading, about 1.5 inches across, on peduncles shorter than themselves. Tendrils are rather short, forked. Flowers are 4-merous, the stigma 4-lobed. Fruit globose-ovoid, as large as a cherry, white when ripe, pulpy, 1- or 2-seeded; the seeds compressed, concave on one surface, rugulose. Indian Chestnut Vine is found in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Nepal, Sri Lanka and SE Asia. https://www.google.com.np/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natureloveyou.sg%2FTetrastigma%2520leucostaphylum%2FDSC02770%2520(12).jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natureloveyou.sg%2FTetrastigma%2520leucostaphylum%2FMain.html&docid=IvPLrRVpQHm9TM&tbnid=2adOZkHlw_oU3M%3A&w=457&h=305&bih=429&biw=911&ved=0ahUKEwimkvm9pOnOAhULs48KHfqfC-wQxiAIAg&iact=c&ictx=1 https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj-vtHTpOnOAhUJSI8KHRbCCWQQjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natureloveyou.sg%2FTetrastigma%2520leucostaphylum%2FMain.html&bvm=bv.131286987,d.c2I&psig=AFQjCNEysg5lGOaxRsoquGpeyYwpXhblgA&ust=1472651460948748 On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Giby Kuriakose <[email protected]> wrote: > Here the leaves are 5 pedate but in the link provided the leaves are > trifoliate (although some are 5 pedate). Hence I request you to kindly > check the same with any authorised flora. > > Regards, > Giby > > On 24 August 2016 at 12:57, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> Tetrastigma leucostaphylum ??- from Saroj ji >> >> Pl. check with images at https://commons.wikimedia.org >> /wiki/Category:Tetrastigma_leucostaphylum >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Saroj Kasaju <[email protected]> >> Date: 12 August 2016 at 16:44 >> Subject: SK76AUG11-2016:ID >> To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>, efloraofindia < >> [email protected]> >> >> >> Dear Mr. Garg, >> >> Sharing some pictures for identification. Pictures were shot at Mudkhu >> Nepal on 9 August 2016 at 5000 ft. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Saroj Kadsaju >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
