Thanks, Singh ji. Pl. see the last image by Dinesh ji at Synedrella nodiflora :: Yeoor Hills, part of SGNP :: 29 DEC 19 <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/N_TzTL0pfcs>
On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 11:51, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are characters I have uploaded on Facebook Groups last month > > Calyptocarpus vialis: prostrate perennial herb, rooting at nodes; leaves > ovate, 2-4 cm long; heads usually solitary on up to 15 mm long peduncle; > heads 6-7 mm long, achenes 3-4 mm long, oblanceolate, with two spreading > awns in ray florets as well disc florets. > Synedrella nodiflora: erect or ascending annual herb; leaves elliptic, > 3-10cm long, heads usually 2-4 together, sessile or subsessile; heads more > than 1 cm long; achenes dimorphic, those of disc florets like Calyptocarpus > vialis but narrower, those of ray florets with triangular scales. > > I don't find any distinctly pedunculate head in Dinesh ji's upload, they > may be subsessile. > > > > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Mob: 9810359089 > https://sing96.wixsite.com/mysite-1 > > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 9:13 AM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In Dinesh ji's post at Synedrella nodiflora :: Yeoor Hills, part of SGNP >> :: 29 DEC 19 >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/N_TzTL0pfcs> , >> one can see a few flowering heads on long peduncles. So the >> following portion of the key has to go away: >> "All heads in *Synedrella* are in sessile clusters, but in *Calytocarpus* >> there are always a few on long peduncles bearing solitary head, in addition >> to several sessile in cluster" >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 at 12:23 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:232195] Confusion between Calyptocarpus vialis >> and Synedrella nodiflora solved (for me atleast)-GSSEP05/123 >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> >> >> Confusion between Calyptocarpus vialis and Synedrella nodiflora solved >> (for me atleast). >> I was lucky to find both on same day in Bangalore and appreciate crucial >> differences between two. >> >> Perhaps no two plants are as confused by most of us as these two. Many >> differentiate the two by prominent three veins from base, but they occur in >> both although thinner in Calyptocarpus. Heads of two look similar, >> involucre bracts of Calyptocarpus are 4 in two whorls, In Synedrella they >> range from 2-5 and may be in one or two whorls. Achenes are with two >> diverging awns in Calyptocarpus, in Synedrella most florets (disc) have >> similar 2-awned achenes although few (fertile ray) have achenes with scales >> (which you are likely to miss. >> Here are features which will never fail you >> 1. Calyptocarpus has low growing, procumbent to ascendin, mat forming >> habit often rooting at nodes, rarely rising more than 15 cm, Synedrella >> tall erect habit up to 80 cm tall . >> 2. Leaves the most crucial are not longer than 3 cm, pale green, thinner, >> faint 3 basal vein and broadly ovate. In contrast leaves of Synedrella >> are longer than 3 cm, dark green in colour, more prominent basal veins and >> ovate to elliptic in shape. >> 3. All heads in Synedrella are in sessile clusters, but in Calytocarpus >> there are always a few on long peduncles bearing solitary head, in addition >> to several sessile in cluster. >> Here are some photographs for illustration. >> >> >> 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> -- >> 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 http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> 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- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or >> Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than >> 2,00,000 images are directly displayed on 30.8.19). >> >> 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). 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