OK Surjit ji,

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju


On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM surajit koley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thank you Saroj ji for the id.
>
> With regards,
>
> Surajit Koley
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Feb, 2026, 11:42 am Saroj Kumar Kasaju, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I guess this is *Sida rhombifolia* L.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Saroj Kasaju
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 10:44:40 PM UTC+5:45
>> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:128413] Sida rhombifolia L. (?) from Hooghly
>> To: Neil Soares <[email protected]>
>> Cc: efloraofindia <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> Neil Sir,
>>
>> I also noticed *Sida rhombifolia* L. var. retusa, in the net. To make
>> the matter more confusing Flora of China has four varieties of *Sida
>> alnifolia*!
>>
>> Too complicated to me.
>>
>> Thank you very much for taking care and elaborating on Sida.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> surajit
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>  To complicate matters further.....
>>
>> Dr. Almeida in his 'Flora of Maharashtra' classifies this as Sida
>> rhombifolia L.var retusa [Linn.] Masters.
>>
>>                      With regards,
>>                         Neil Soares.
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 9/4/12, surajit koley <[email protected]>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: surajit koley <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:128413] Sida rhombifolia L. (?) from Hooghly
>> To: "Neil Soares" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 7:15 PM
>>
>> Neil Sir,
>>
>> I understand that my species is Sida retusa, not S. rhombifolia. You know
>> it much better than me. Please, tell me, of the followings, which one is
>> correct -
>>
>>    1. *Sida retusa = Sida rhombifolia* L.
>>    2. *Sida retusa* L. = *Sida alnifolia* var. *alnifolia*
>>    3. *Sida retusa* is not connected to any of the above
>>
>> Thank you & Regards,
>>
>> surajit
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> You are most welcome Surajit. Sending you some of my more recent
>> photographs of Sida retusa.
>>                      With regards,
>>                        Neil Soares.
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 9/4/12, surajit koley <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>>*
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: surajit koley <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:128413] Sida rhombifolia L. (?) from Hooghly
>> To: "Neil Soares" <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>>
>> Cc: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> >
>> Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 6:29 PM
>>
>> Neil Sir,
>>
>> The images of *Sida retusa* (your uploads -
>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/wildflowerindia/Y7Lyh4_z5tg/discussion)
>> do perfectly match with herbarium found at -
>> http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/view_large.cfm?SpecimenPK=151598&idThumb=378002&SpecimenSequenz=1&loan=0
>>
>> I thought my pics resemble with the herbarium at -
>> http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/view_large.cfm?SpecimenPK=151592&idThumb=377939&SpecimenSequenz=1&loan=0.
>>  But
>> my inexperienced eyes and lack of knowledge are very likely to deceive me.
>>
>> Thank you very much for the correct id of this Sida.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> surajit
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Neil Soares <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>  Affirmative. This is Sida retusa. [Don't go by the leaves at the top of
>> the plant. Check the leaves lower down]. As Dr.Almeida explained to me when
>> I posed the same questions to him - retusa means 'cut' - its as if someone
>> has abruptly cut the leaves. Whereas in Sida rhombifolia, the leaves are
>> rhomboid.
>>                         With regards,
>>                           Neil Soares.
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 9/4/12, surajit koley <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>>*
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: surajit koley <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:128413] Sida rhombifolia L. (?) from Hooghly
>> To: "Neil Soares" <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>>
>> Cc: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> >
>> Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 12:07 AM
>>
>> Neil Sir,
>>
>> Though my flowers differ with your picture of *S. rhombifolia* at -
>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/cWZmjt6gng0/discussion,
>> i think my leaves differ with that of your images of *S. retusa* leaves
>> at -
>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/wildflowerindia/Y7Lyh4_z5tg/discussion.
>>
>> Besides, the following websites informs *S. retusa = S, rhombifolia* L.
>> or *S. rhombifolia* L. subsp. *rhombifolia* -
>>
>>    1. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33900
>>    2.
>>    
>> http://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Sida_rhombifolia.htm
>>    3. http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
>>
>> On the other hand The Plant List informs -
>>
>>    1. *Sida retusa* L. is a synonym of *Sida alnifolia* var. *alnifolia*
>>     - http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-19601817
>>    2. more synonyms of the above -
>>    http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-19603576
>>
>> I am confused. Attaching one more photographs, a larger one, for your
>> perusal.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> surajit
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>  Negative. This is Sida retusa. Please check these links for my
>> photographs and our previous discussion on this :
>>
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!search/Sida$20retusa$20Neil$20Soares/wildflowerindia/Y7Lyh4_z5tg/GuQwons9sIIJ
>>
>>
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!search/Sida$20retusa$20Neil$20Soares/indiantreepix/cWZmjt6gng0/oAjbrJq0bCUJ
>>
>>                        With regards,
>>                          Neil Soares.
>>
>>
>> --- On *Mon, 9/3/12, surajit koley <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>>*
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: surajit koley <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> >
>> Subject: [efloraofindia:128413] Sida rhombifolia L. (?) from Hooghly
>> To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]
>> <http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
>> >
>> Date: Monday, September 3, 2012, 10:54 PM
>>
>> Sir,
>>
>> I hope this is *Sida rhombifolia L.*, the Bengali name of which has been
>> stated as LAL-BERELA in the book, Plant Groups, by H. Mukherji.
>>
>> Species : *Sida rhombifolia* L. ?
>> Habit & Habitat : wild herb, about 2 feet, found on roadside, pictures
>> were taken from two individual plants at the same place
>> Date : 01/09/12 & 03/09/12
>> Place : Kamarkundu (Hooghly)
>>
>> Thank you & Regards,
>>
>> surajit
>>
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