Corrigendum: Kindly read it as *Flowers of India* instead of *Eflora of India*.
Sorry for the mistake. Tanay On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:45 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > At Eflora of India the plant that has been identified as *Euphorbia > dracunculoides* doesn't convince me as the description and the > Illustration from Flora of China is quite different for this plant. > > *Description from Flora of China: * > > * * > > *Euphorbia dracunculoides* Lamarck, Encycl. 2: 428. 1788. > > *Euphorbia lanceolata* Sprengel; *Tithymalus dracunculoides* (Lamarck) > Klotzsch & Garcke. > > Herbs, annual or short-lived perennial, 10-40 cm tall. Root terete, single, > 30-40 cm × 3-8 mm. Stem sometimes branched basally, 3-7 mm thick, branches > ascending. Leaves alternate; stipules absent; petiole absent or nearly so; > leaf blade linear-oblong, 1-3 cm × 2.5-4 mm, base truncate or subattenuate > below, rounded higher up, margin entire, apex rounded or obtuse; lateral > veins few, inconspicuous, at acute angle to midrib. Inflorescence an > inconspicuous terminal few-rayed cyathium; primary involucral leaves similar > to normal leaves, primary rays ca. 3, robust and ascending, dichotomous; > cyathophylls 2, similar to normal leaves. Cyathium sessile; involucre > broadly campanulate, 2-3 × 3-5 mm, lobes rounded; glands 4, pale brown, > crescent-shaped, apex 2-horned, horns light green. Male flowers many, not > exserted from involucre. Female flower: ovary exserted from cup, smooth, > glabrous; styles free, persistent; style arms 2-lobed. Fruiting peduncle ca. > 3 mm; capsule subglobose, ca. 3.5 × 3.5 mm, smooth or obscurely reticulate, > glabrous. Seeds ovoid- terete, ca. 2.5 × 1.5-2 mm, gray or dark gray, > adaxially striate; caruncle present, stipitate. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. May-Aug. > > Illustration: > http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=109354&flora_id=2 > > Tanay > > * > > * > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *Euphorbia lathyris* Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 457. 1753. >> >> >> >> Some times spelled as *Euphorbia lathyrus* L., orth. var. >> >> >> >> Herbs, annual, erect, up to 1(-1.5) m tall. Rootstock a simple taproot, >> slightly swollen in seedlings, up to more than 20 cm × 3-7 mm thick; lateral >> roots thin and branched. Stem single, gray-green, smooth and glabrous. >> Leaves opposite, decussate; stipules absent; petiole absent; leaf blade >> linear-lanceolate, 6-15(-20) × 0.4-2.5 cm, glabrous, base ± clasping stem, >> margin entire, apex acuminate or acute; midrib prominent adaxially, lateral >> veins inconspicuous. Inflorescence a terminal pseudumbel, often compound, >> eventually broad and lax; primary involucral leaves (2-)4 or 5(or 6), >> slightly yellowish green, narrowly elliptic to ovate-elliptic, somewhat >> unequal, margin entire, base rounded, primary rays (3 or)4 or 5; cymes >> regularly many forked; cyathophylls 2, ovate-triangular, 3-8 × 2-4 cm, base >> truncate to clasping, margin entire, apex acuminate or acute. Cyathium >> subsessile; involucre subcampanulate, 2.5-4 × 2.5-3.5(-5) mm, lobes >> triangular-oblong, less repanded or lobed; glands 4, dark brown, >> transversely oblong-reniform with a club-shaped horn at each tip. Male >> flowers many, exserted from involucre. Female flower exserted from cup; >> ovary smooth, glabrous; styles free, slender and long, caducous; style arms >> 2-lobed. Capsule trigonous-globose, ca. 10 × 13-17 mm, smooth, glabrous. >> Seeds ovoid-globose to barrel-shaped, 5-8 × 4-6 mm, brown or gray-brown, >> with black-brown spots on surface, sharply rugulose; caruncle ca. 1.5 mm >> wide, yellowish, sessile, easily lost. Fl. Apr-Jul. 2*n* = 20*. >> >> >> >> Illustration: >> http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=109318&flora_id=2 >> >> >> >> Images and further description: >> http://www.hear.org/pier/species/euphorbia_lathyris.htm >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> Tanay >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> 040710GS1 Euphorbia from Kashmir. I find similar plant identified as E. >>> dracunculoides at Flowers of India website, but having seen this species in >>> Delhi, it is quite different with linear-lanceolate leaves, whereas this >>> plant has leaves with much broader almost sessile leaf base. >>> >>> Habitat: Grown in pots, sometimes in shaded corners >>> Habit: herbaceous plant, up to 70 cm tall >>> Leaves: mostly opposite, sessile, nearly ovate with long acuminate apex. >>> Inf: Axillary cyathium, nectaries semilunar, crescent shaped, ovary >>> glabrous >>> Fruit: nearly 1cm, subglobular, 3-lobed, with three additional depression >>> lines, on on each lobe, glabrous, green >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >>> >>> -- >>> 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) >> >> >> > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > > > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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