What an evidence sir ji?! You are simply great! Thanks for the pictures of P. karka (i am seeing the plant for the first time!). Thanks Tanay for the 'project report'! The discussions on the group are lively & lovely.
With regards R. Vijayasankar On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Tanay > My posting of photographs of ligule fringed with hairs and tuft of long > hairs below floret and spiral leaves meant I had concluded this to be > Phragmites karka. Thanks Vijayasankar ji, for initiating this process of > thorough investigation. > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:03 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Phragmites karka* (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud >> >> >> >> *Synonym:* >> >> *Arundo** karka* Retz. >> >> *Arundo** roxburghii* Kunth >> >> *Phragmites** maxima* (Forssk.) Blatter & McCann >> >> *Phragmites** nepalensis* Nees ex Steud. >> *Phragmites** roxburghii* (Kunth) Steud. >> >> >> Perennial reed, with creeping rhizomes. Culms erect, up to 10m high. >> Leaf-blades 30-80 cm long and 12-40 nun wide, glabrous, rough to the touch >> beneath (at least in the upper half), the tips attenuate and stiff >> (occasionally almost smooth or with filiform tips). Panicle 30-50 cm long, >> 10-20 cm wide, the lowest node often many-branched in a whorl, the branches >> bare of spikelets for some distance from their base. Spikelets 9-12 mm long, >> the rhachilla-hairs 4-7 mm long, rather sparse; lower glume just over half >> as long as the upper; upper glume narrowly elliptic to very narrowly >> elliptic, 4-6 mm long, acute to subacute; lowest lemma very narrowly >> elliptic, 7.5-12 mm long; fertile lemmas very narrowly lanceolate, 85-11 mm >> long. >> >> >> >> *Arundo donax* Linn. >> >> >> >> *Synonym:* >> >> *Arundo** bengalensis* Retz. >> >> *Arundo** bifaria* Retz. >> >> *Arundo** longifolia* Salisb. ex Hook. f. >> *Arundo** triflora* Roxb. ex Hook. f. >> >> >> Perennial, with creeping woody rhizomes. Culms erect, up to 5 m high. >> Leaf-blades conspicuously distichous, linear-lanceolate, rounded or cordate >> at the base, 30-60 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, glabrous, smooth, long-attenuate >> at the tip. Panicle 30.60 cm long and 5.8(10) cm wide. Spikelets 10-15 mm >> long; glumes subequal, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, (8-)10-13 mm long, >> the lower a little shorter than the upper; lemmas lanceolate, (6)8.5-13 mm >> long, 3-5-nerved, 3 of the nerves produced as short aristae, hairy all over >> the back below the middle with hairs up to 7 mm long. >> >> >> >> *My Answer to the question given out by Gurcharan Ji is………..** >> >> * >> >> *Phragmites karka* >> >> *Tanay * >> >> >> > > > > -- 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.
