Thanks a lot, Rawat ji, for superb details and a new addition. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "D.S Rawat" <[email protected]> Date: 16 Oct 2016 11:22 am Subject: [efloraofindia:253780] Luffa graveolens Roxb. (Cucurbitaceae) from Pantnagar : DSR_Oct. 2016_3/3 To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Cc:
> This cucurbit was seen along cultivated fields in Pantnagar area. Identified as* Luffa graveolens* Roxb., it also resemble to* L. saccata*, a new Australian species published by Telford et al. (2011) in Phytokeys <http://phytokeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=1381>. Kew herbarium has a specimen named as* L. graveolens* ( http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K001124732) but so are the specimens of* L.saccata* ( http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getHomePageResults.do?homePageSearchText=Luffa+graveolens) (obviously, their identification is yet not corrected). > > > > Fruits in* L. graveolens* are characteristically black while in* L. saccata* fruits are brownish. > > > > This species is not represented in eFI. > > > > Google search yield no reliable image of this species but Dr Renner in a thread <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/indiantreepix/TFdE0kXJvHU> has kindly provided a paper in which images of* Luffa* species are available which include an immature fruit of* L. graveolens*. > > > > DSRawat Pantnagar > Dr D.S.Rawat > Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA *> eflorapantnagar <https://sites.google.com/site/eflorapantnagar/home>* displaying wild flora of Pantnagar > > -- > 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.
