Thanks Vijayasankar ji All credit to you for initiating the process of reinvestigation.
-- 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 Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:02 AM, R. Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > 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.
