Balkar ji We are lucky that you were assigned the first episode. What a systematic way of preparing the ground work? Many many thanks from all of us.
-- 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/ On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Balkar Arya <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Members > Here is the Information on Apocynaceae > Apocynaceae (The Oleander Family or Periwinkle Family or Dogbane family) > > 1. Usually twining shrubs, lianas, rarely erect small trees, rarely > subshrubs or herbs. Plant with latex. > 2. Bicollateral vascular bundles in stem > 3. Leaves simple, opposite, rarely whorled or alternate, exstipulate > 4. Inflorescences cymose, terminal or axillary, sometimes corymbose. > Bract and bracteoles present > 5. Flowers regular bisexual, generally pentamerous rarely tetramerous, > sometime with corona > 6. Calyx 5, rarely 4, with basal glands, fused but divided almost to > the base > 7. Corolla 5, rarely 4, lobed, salverform or funnel shaped twisted or > rarely valvate aestivation. The throat or interior of the tube often hairy > or other scaly outgrowths (Corona) > 8. Stamens 5 or rarely 4, epipetalous, free or filaments rarely united, > short; anthers mostly arrow shaped, usually connate around the stigma and > apparently adnate to it, ring-like often glandular disc present > 9. Gynoecium 2 Carpels, free below and united by styles only or > completely fused. When Apocarpous each ovary is one celled with marginal > placentation. In Syncarpous condition ovary may be one celled with parietal > placentation or 2 celled with axile placentation.. Anatropous ovules. Style > simple, thickned above into a dumb-bell shaped stigmatic head, ring of > hairs > below it > 10. Fruit a dry or fleshy drupe, berry, follicle or capsules or two > indehiscent mericarps.. Seeds often hairy or winged. > > > > *Plant parts of Some members of this Plant Family are POISONOUS* > > * * > > *Full key of the family can be downloaded from the link below* > > http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume16/Apocynaceae.published.pdf > > > > *Some Internet Links on the family* > > *http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/apocyn.htm* > > * * > > *http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/apocynac.htm* > > * * > > * > http://www.cieer.org/bot461/query/details.php?family=Apocynaceae&field=family > * > > * * > > *http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Apocynaceae/Apocynaceae.html* > > * * > > *http://botany.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/imaxxapo.htm* > > * * > > *http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=15* > > * * > > *http://www.flickr.com/groups/apocynaceae/* > > * * > > * > http://www.plantsystematics.org/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?family=Apocynaceae > * > > * * > > *http://www.hear.org/starr/images/family/?q=apocynaceae&o=plants* > > * > * > > *http://www.greenculturesg.com/articles/sep06/sep06_apocynaceae.htm* > > Reference of the members of family appeared on Efloraindia earlier will > appear in this thread soon possibly by the today evening. > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
