Thank you so much Radha ji. 🙏 Matching perfect. Was searching for fruit and female flower pictures...need little help regarding the same.
Please check the following link... https://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/img/Flacourtia_montana/flacmont_10.jpg If we check picture of fruits from above link, we can see 5-6 styles in each fruit. Our site link mentions 5 styles https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/s/salicaceae/flacourtia/flacourtia-montana Please check the following link https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/12197 Morphological description as per "Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India.; Kailash, B. R., ATREE, Bangalore, India.; Royal Norwegian Embassy grants. Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN), Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India." is as- Deciduous trees, about 5-15 m tall, trunk, branches and branchlets armed with simple and branched spines of about 5-8 cm long, branchlets and shoots usually densely tomentose, sometimes also glabrescent. Leaves simple, alternate, variable, broadly elliptic, obovate-ovate, to elliptic-oblong, about 7-22 x 3-9.5 cm across, base cuneate, 3-5 pliveined, margin subentire to coarsely serrate-crenate, apex acute to shallow acuminate, leaves often clustered towards apices, lateral veins 5-7 on either side of the midrib, impressed above and slightly prominent beneath, glabrous above, tomentose along midrib above, sparsely to densely tomentose on the veins beneath, teritiary veins somewhat perpendicular to midrib, quaternary veins conspicuous reticulate beneath, coriaceous to subcoriaceous, shiny, petiole glabrescent to tomentose, about 5-8 mm long. Inflorescence in shortly pedunculate axillary and terminal lax raceme fascicles or dense panicles, bracteate, like spherical hair balls. Flowers unisexual (dioecious), hypogynous, greenish yellow, about 4 mm across, pedicels articulate, glabrous or hairy, slightly elongated in fruits, about 3-4 mm long, sepals 4-5, imbricate, minute, sparsely hairy inside, subglabrous or glabrescent outside, petals absent, extrastaminal disc, with distinct glands inserted before sepals. Male flowers: Stamens numerous, filaments filiform, base minutely hairy, anthers 2 loculed, versatile, globular, dorsifixed, pollen fleshy, tricolporate, reticulate, pistillode absent. Female flowers: Ovary superior, urceolate, surrounded by disc, sometimes covered by few staminodes, carpels 3-6, incompletely loculed, recurved slightly, about 1.5 mm long, ovules often 2 per locule, style 5-6, stigma slightly bilobed, minute. Fruit indehiscent berry, ovoid-globose, about 12-18 mm across, red when ripe, becoming reddish purple. Seeds 5-6 in 2 rows, ovoid-obovoid, compressed, non arillate, rough and woody. Both "Flora of Shimoga" book and https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/12197 mentions about 5-6 styles... Please do confirm about this....because "The flora of the presidency of Bombay. Cooke" does mention 'number of styles 2 or more' which is vague..but the identification character mentioned is cherry size fruits and scarlet fruit colour when ripe...which is matching. Fruit size may vary depending on nutrients or fertility of the soil. Thanks Sharmila On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 9:12 AM radha veach <[email protected]> wrote: > It is *Flacourtia montana *J. Graham > Your pictures with many stamens are of the male flowers. > > regards > Radha > > On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 4:57:17 PM UTC+5:30, sharmilafloraindia > wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> Please find attached picture of a tree in Matheran. >> Date: Mid December 2018. >> It was growing in dappled shade or partial shade. >> New branches were tomentose and old branches were without hairs. >> Old branches had bunch of tiny flowers. >> >> Thanks >> Sharmila >> > -- > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
