Dear all, It is Neolitsea, for sure and it belongs to the cinnamomum plant family Lauraceae.
I have a humble and friendly request to Tanay Bose. Please don't refer flora of China at least to id the Western Ghats and southern Eastern Ghats plants. That would be useful for North East and Western Himalayas. For Example you idied the plant in these pictures as Neolitsea menglaensis. This species that has distribution only (?) in China and Indo-China. It cant (many not) be distributed in the Western Ghats. Distribution and phyto-geography is one important aspect that a taxonomist has to taken in to consideration with considerable importance. Here menglean itself indicates that it can be a Chinese place name. Another thing is that so far, there are 5 species of Neolitsea have been reported from Kerala and Tamil Nadu. N. mengleansis is not there. I doubt this species is there in S. India. Regarding the pictures, Please ref. page 1239 of flora of the Presidency of Madras by Gamble. I agree with R Vijayashankar. To me also this is Neolitsea scrabiculata. This plant is Endemic to India. In India, it has distribution only in Karnataka, TN and Kerala. Please not down some important characters for N scrobiculata. leaves having long petiole. Leaf blade has pits and furrows (hence the name scrobiculata; scrobiculate = a surface having pitted or furrows). Berry globose sitting pretty well on a cup shaped fruiting perianth (developed from a persisting calyx). Regards, Giby On Mar 29, 5:06 pm, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > The Plant in the attached photo is ..................................... > ** > *Neolitsea menglaensis* *Yen C. Yang & P. H. Huang*, Acta Phytotax. Sin. > 16(4): 39. 1978. > The two main reasons for this is.... > > 1. The leaveas are trinerved. > 2. Leaves are trinerved only at the base [character visible in photo no d > 042]. > 3. Glabrous above, > > Regards > Tanay > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > > Earlier relevant feedback: > > > *“May be Neolitsea species*.” from Vijayasankar ji. > > > “The Drupes (0.8cm across) possessing a basal rim of perianth tube and the > > elliptic leaves narrow downs to Neolitsea. > > > *Could this be Neolitsea scrobiculata?”* > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Muthu Karthick <[email protected]> > > Date: 27 January 2010 17:17 > > Subject: [efloraofindia:26835] Shrub for id 270110MK3 > > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > > > Please id this shrub found on the dry landscapes and slopes of > > Satyamangalam RF. > > Altitude: 1000 msl > > Date: 23 Jan 2010 > > > -- > > Muthu Karthick, N > > Junior Research Fellow > > Care Earth > > Chennai > >www.careearthtrust.org > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "efloraofindia" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<indiantreepix%2bunsubscr...@goog > > legroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > > -- > > With regards, > > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > > Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, > > Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): > >http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > >http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > 9674221362 (Mobile) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
