Dear all, *'Phragmites karka' *is called *'Nal' 'नल' *or* 'Narkul' 'नरकुल' *in Marathi.
Regards, ~Swagat 9223217568 / 9422317979 2010/5/13 Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > 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]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- 'I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.' - Helen Keller -- 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.
