Dear Prasant Ji , I have no words to describe the asthetic value of the pictures, I have made one of them my wallpaper. I am adding the description of the plant.
*Breynia retusa* (Dennstedt) Alston, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Peradeniya). 11: 204. 1929. *Phyllanthus retusus* Dennstedt, Schlüssel Hortus Malab. Register 1: 15; Register 2: 24; Register 3: 31. 1818; *Breynia **hyposauropus* Croizat; *B. patens* (Roxburgh) Rolfe; *Melanthesopsis patens* (Roxburgh) Müller Argoviensis; *P. patens* Roxburgh. Erect shrubs 0.5-3.5 m tall, glabrous throughout; branches slender. Stipules small, 1-2 × 0.6-0.7 mm; petiole 1-2.5 mm; leaf blade elliptic to slightly obovate, 1.5-3 × 0.7-1.5 cm, papery or thinly papery, abaxially grayish green or pruinose, adaxially green, base obtuse to rounded, apex rounded to subacute, mucronulate; lateral veins 3-7 pairs, slender, obscure. Flowers solitary or rarely 2 in axillary clusters. Male flowers: pedicels slender, ca. 1.5 mm; calyx campanulate to turbinate, 2-3 mm in diam., 6-lobed; sepals rounded to oblong; stamens 3, connate into 3-angled head, ca. 2 mm. Female flowers solitary; pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm; calyx campanulate, 6-lobed, ca. 4-6 mm in diam., ca. 1.5-3 mm high; sepals ovate-oblong, enlarged to ca. 12 mm in diam. in fruit; ovary globose; style present, very stout; stigmas with 3 short forked arms, ca. 0.5 mm. Fruiting pedicel 2-6 mm; capsules globose, 5-6 × 8-10 mm, exocarp fleshy, tardily dehiscent, red and ripening brown, apex smooth or with a shallow ring. Seeds 3.6-4 × 2.2-2.8 × 2.2-2.8 mm, yellow to red. Fl. Mar-Oct, fr. Feb-Mar, Jul-Aug. Illustration: http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=109874&flora_id=2 Regards Tanay On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Prashant awale <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Friends, > Came across this Shrub at Yeoor hills, Thane. Common name: Cup- Saucer > plant. > > Bot. name: Breynia retusa > Family: Phyllanthaceae > Date/Time: 26-06-2010 / 07:15AM > Location: Yeoor hills, Thane > > regards > Prashant > > -- > 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. > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile) -- 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.
