The last photo is awesome !! Tanay On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Commelinales & Zingiberales Week: Commelinaceae, Commelina forsskalii > Vahl. Enum. Pl. 2: 172 1805. > Syn: C. falcata Hassk. > > The plant is common in the Old Delhi Ridge forest in rainy season. The > plant is reported and looks like C. forsskalii Vahl but I am not able to > ignore the distinct auricles at the base of leaf sheath, a character > distinctive of C. erecta (according to Flora of North America) and absent in > C. forsskalii. The experts are requested to examine this aspect critically. > > The spellings of this binomial is also worth consideration. The species is > often reported in Indian publications as C. forskalaei, whereas GRIN, Flora > North America take up C. forskaolii Vahl. > > > -- > 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/ > > -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of British Columbia . 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) 604-822-6089 (Fax) [email protected] *Webpages:* http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/
