Thank you Garg ji for the correct ID. Regards Alka Khare
On Friday, January 31, 2020 at 12:37:36 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > > I could not find *Spermacoce ocymoides* Burm.f. in either Flora of China > <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=130842> or Flora > of Pakistan > <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=104289>. > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 12:34, J.M. Garg <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> As I am not finding the difference between the two online and also the >> details from the same source. Let us examine their descriptions for clues. >> *Mitracarpus hirtus* (Linnaeus) Candolle from Flora of China >> <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242332831>: >> Herbs, annual, branched,* 40-80 cm tall;* *branches flattened to >> subterete or 4-angled*, sometimes becoming woody in lower part, sparsely >> hirsute to villous. *Leaves sessile; blade drying thinly papery, >> elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, 3-4.5 × 0.7-1.5 cm, adaxially scaberulous >> and usually also sparsely villosulous or pilosulous, abaxially moderately >> to densely villous or pilose,* base acute to obtuse or rounded, apex >> acute; secondary veins 3-6 pairs; stipule sheaths 1-4 mm, villosulous or >> pilosulous to glabrescent, with 1-9 setae 1-5 mm. *Inflorescences 5-20 >> mm in diam. (not including subtending leaves), villosulous or pilosulous; >> bracts linear, 1-2 mm*. *Calyx sparsely to densely puberulent or >> strigillose; ovary portion subglobose to ellipsoid, ca. 0.5 mm; limb deeply >> lobed; lobes unequal, triangular to lanceolate, 2 larger 1.8-2 mm, 2 >> smaller 0.8-1.2 mm*, *ciliate*. *Corolla funnelform, outside puberulent >> to glabrous; tube 1-1.5 mm, glabrous inside; lobes triangular to ovate, >> 0.5-1 mm, obtuse to acute*. Capsules subglobose, ca. 1 mm in diam., >> scaberulous or sparsely puberulent; seeds dark brown, oblate-suboblong, ca. >> 0.8 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr-Nov. >> Wastelands at highway sides; near sea level to 800 m. Hainan (Wanning), >> Hong Kong, Yunnan [native to the Antilles and Central, North, and South >> America; naturalized in tropical Africa, Asia, Australia, and Pacific >> islands]. >> Pl. see FoC illustration >> <http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=119948&flora_id=2> >> >> *Spermacoce ocymoides* Burm.f. from PIER >> <http://www.hear.org/pier/species/spermacoce_ocymoides.htm>: >> *A weak erect, decumbent or procumbent annual herb, usually ± >> well-branched, 3-40 cm tall*, with fine fibrous roots; stems with sparse >> to fairly dense crisped hairs on the ± wing-like prominent angles. >> Leaf-blades elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 0.4-3.6 cm long, 0.25-1.6 cm >> wide, rounded to ± acute at the apex, concavely narrowed into the petiole >> at the base, *glabrous on both surfaces save for short marginal hairs or >> ± pubescent on the main nerve beneath*; *petiole 0-8 mm long*, with >> scattered hairs; stipules with base 2 mm long, bearing ± 7 fimbriae 1-3 mm >> long. * Flowers in small few-flowered clusters at many of the nodes, >> attaining 3-6 mm in diameter in the fruiting state; stipule-like bracteoles >> with fimbriae 1.8-2 mm long. Calyx-tube transversely oblong, 0.5 mm long; >> lobes 2 (-4), 0.6-0.8 mm long, ciliate.* *Corolla white; tube 0.3 mm >> long; lobes triangular, 0.35 mm long, 0.3-0.4 mm wide, with a few short >> hairs inside. *Anthers situated just above the sinuses of the >> corolla-lobes. Style ± 0.2 mm long; stigma 0.2 mm wide. *Fruit* >> oblong, 1 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, 0.5-0.7 mm thick, compressed, finely >> transversely wrinkled and very shortly pubescent. *Seeds* >> chestnut-brown, oblong-ellipsoid, 0.7-0.8 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, 0.3-0.35 mm >> thick, strongly reticulate with raised ribs, the foveae elongated in the >> direction of the short axis" (Verdcourt, 1976; p. 361). >> >> But description in Flora of Thailand >> <http://homepage.univie.ac.at/christian.puff/FTH-RUB/FTH-RUB-Spermacoce_compl_WEB.htm> >> appears to be sketchy as also in Flora of Peninsular India >> <http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/herbsheet.php?id=8298&cat=7> >> . >> >> *Spermacoce ocymoides* Burm.f. looks much different as per images and >> specimens at GBIF >> <https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2918700> as below: >> https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2429301673 >> https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1288054225 >> https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1890085432 >> >> https://api.gbif.org/v1/image/unsafe/https%3A%2F%2Fmedialib.naturalis.nl%2Ffile%2Fid%2FL.4188720%2Fformat%2Flarge >> >> https://api.gbif.org/v1/image/unsafe/https%3A%2F%2Fmedialib.naturalis.nl%2Ffile%2Fid%2FL.2962121%2Fformat%2Flarge >> >> In view I will go for *Mitracarpus hirtus* (Linnaeus) Candolle >> >> >> On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 22:13, Paradesi Anjaneyulu <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> That both plants have most of the characters overlapping Garg JI, >>> With regards. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 12:18, J.M. Garg <[email protected] <javascript:>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks, Paradesi ji. >>>> But we want keys/ differences that we can check in a flowering plant. >>>> -- >>>> With regards, >>>> J. M. Garg >>>> >>>> On Mon 20 Jan, 2020, 7:05 PM Paradesi Anjaneyulu, < >>>> [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ovules many in each locule....Mitracarpus >>>>> Ovule single in each locule.....Spermacoce, >>>>> With regards. >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 17:13, J.M. Garg <[email protected] >>>>> <javascript:>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Can anybody find out the difference/ keys between Spermacoce >>>>>> ocymoides and Mitracarpus hirtus (syn: *Spermacoce* *hirta* L.) ? >>>>>> >>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>>>>> From: Alka Khare <[email protected] <javascript:>> >>>>>> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 16:49 >>>>>> Subject: [efloraofindia:339621] Satara, MH :: White tiny flowers for >>>>>> ID :: ARK2020-011 >>>>>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected] <javascript:>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello friends >>>>>> >>>>>> Saw this plant at the Sadawaghapur plateau near Satara. 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