---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lalithamba Avadhanam" <[email protected]> Date: 18-Dec-2017 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [itpmods:11413] Submission of Grewia rhamnifolia To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> Cc:
Our floras give it Grewia rhamnifolia only; thank you regards A.Lalithamba On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:14 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot, Lalithamba ji. > I think this is the same plant as Grewia carpinifolia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/grewia/grewia-carpinifolia> > in > efi so far. > Perusing online resources, I feel our plants in India may correctly be *Grewia > rhamnifolia *Heyne ex Roth as there is no such listing of *Grewia > carpinifolia *in BSI Flora of India > <http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/taxonList.action?id=3482&type=3>. > Catalogue of Life > <http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/db4603f45db0ced6297c5d2323ea9afc> > also gives its distribution as stated in BSI Flora of India, while > regarding *Grewia carpinifolia* > <http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/72201221f0f707fa9cf366d1e8d571b6> > *,* it gives distribution as Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, > Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, W-D.R.Congo (Zaire), NW-Angola, Sao > Tome, Yemen (W-Yemen, Aden Desert). > > I am marking a copy to Sh. Nicolas Lagarrigue, Fench Botanist, Living and > working at Pitchandikulam Forest Organisation, Auroville - Tamil Nadu, > for necessary corrections in his wonderful website at > http://www.pitchandikulam-herbarium.org/contents/nomenclature.php?id=74 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Lalithamba Avadhanam <[email protected]> > Date: 18 December 2017 at 15:42 > Subject: [itpmods:11413] Submission of Grewia rhamnifolia > To: [email protected] > > > Hi all > It is Grewia rhamnifolia - ref : http://efloraindia.nic.in/ef > loraindia/taxonList.action?id=3524&type=4 > *Grewia rhamnifolia* Heyne ex Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 244. 1821; Dunn in > Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 117.1915. *G. orientalis* auct. non L.1753: > Masters in Fl. Brit. India 1: 384. 1874, p.p. > > Shrubs, up to 3 m high. Leaves 2 - 14 x 1.5 - 7 cm, ovate, rhomboid-ovate > or lanceolate, subcordate or rounded at base, acute or acuminate at apex, > crenate-serrate, glabrous, 3-nerved; petioles 4 - 10 mm long. Flowers in > axillary or terminal, umbellate cymes ; peduncles up to 1.5 cm long; buds 1 > - 1.5 cm long, ovoid-oblong or conical, ribbed, tomentose; pedicels 1 - 2.2 > cm long. Sepals 1.2 - 2 cm long, lanceolate, woolly tomentose. Petals 5 - 7 > mm long, ovate-lanceolate; glands ca 3 mm long. Receptacle ca 1 mm long, > angled, glabrous. Androgynophore ca 2 mm long, grooved, woolly. Stamens > many; filaments 6 - 8 mm long. Ovary 1 - 1.5 mm across, globose, pilose; > stigma 4-lobed. Drupes 1.2 - 1.5 cm across, subglobose, obscurely 2 - > 4-lobed, yellow, brown-tomentose. > > Very common in A.P. > > Thank you > > regards > > A.Lalithamba > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ITPmods" 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/itpmods. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > 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 2800 members & 2,65,000 messages on 31.3.17) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 2,50,000 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 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.
