Forwarding for ID Distributed as Amaranthus species from the garden by the river <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/amaranthaceae/amaranthus/amaranthus-species/from-the-garden-by-the-river> Group discussion at Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week:: UD 008:: Amaranth family 5 to ID (google.com) <https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/5GkN7pmi20o>
On Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 10:00:16 PM UTC+5:30 Ushadi wrote: > Garg ji > thanks for trying > but I wonder if it can be further helped without taking a dissecting > microscope and taking higher pictures of the flower parts > not possible at present for me > > Lets hope some one can find enough in these pictures to get the dx > usha di > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:01 PM, J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> Very nice pictures indeed. >> First time observing a close up of Amaranth flowers the features of >> which are necessary to reach upto species level. >> I can't count the number of tepals and stamens ...hopefully they are 5 >> each. >> The leaf axil I think is without spines which rules out A. spinosus. >> I can see the Bracts/bracteoles spinous tipped (a key character.) and it >> is as long as or slightly longer than tepals. >> They may be ovate acuminate which indicates *it might be A.cruentus*. >> Dr Satish Phadke >> >> Thanks Satish, I need to pay more attention to smaller details when >> encountering these small spikes... >> >> and thanks for the details >> I have this one of the area where a leaf arose and a few flowers bunched >> up, will this add any thing to your analysis? >> Usha di >> >> Efi site link for this species: Amaranthus cruentus >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/amaranthaceae/amaranthus/amaranthus-hybridus-subsp-cruentus> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Ushadi Micromini <micromi...@gmail.com> >> Date: 5 February 2013 18:16 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:145469] Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week:: >> UD 008:: Amaranth family 5 to ID >> To: efloraofindia <indian...@googlegroups.com> >> >> >> *Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week:: UD 008:: Amaranth family 5 to >> ID * >> >> >> *Amaranth family to 5 to ID * >> >> >> Dear All >> >> >> This is one more amaranth from the garden by the river, this has green >> flower spike… >> >> >> Leaf size you can perhaps guess is about 4 inches long, >> >> the plants were just as tall as the ones with the red spikes >> >> in the earlier submission. >> >> >> Need ID please >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> Usha di >> >> -- >> >> --- >> 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 indiantreepi...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* >> & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2045 members & >> 1,45,000 messages on 31/1/13) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of more than 8000 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/35625680-bf76-46ed-82a9-9ea85d1a2650n%40googlegroups.com.
