Thanks Mayur ji for detailed information
-- 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 Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > Ring chromosome in this plant plant makes it quite unique to the scientific > world > tanay > > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Mayur Nandikar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Tradescantia spathacea** *Swartz, Prodr. 57. 1788; *Rhoeo discolor* >> (L’Héritier) >> Hance; *R. spathacea* (Swartz) Stearn; *Tradescantia discolor* L’Héritier. >> ‘Boat lily, Moses-in-a-boat, Oyster lily’. >> >> Herbs perennial. Stems erect, often forming colonies, simple, >> glabrous. Leaves alternate, sometimes seemingly spirally arranged, sessile; >> leaf sheath sometimes pilose at mouth; leaf blade dark green adaxially, >> purple abaxially, oblong-lanceolate, 20-40 × 3--6 cm, glabrous, somewhat >> fleshy, base narrowed and semiclasping, apex acuminate. Flowers in axillary, >> pedunculate, simple or forked, many-flowered umbels subtended by 2 large, >> conduplicate, ovate bracts to 3 cm. Petals white, ovate, 5--8 mm, apex >> abruptly acute. Seeds rugose. >> >> *Flowering:* Always >> >> *Distribution:* Naturalized all over world. Native to Caribbean region >> and Central America. Widely cultivated as an ornamental in India. >> >> *Note: *The flower and leaf is used as folk medicine. This plant is also >> known as *Rhoeo discolor *and more frequently in the horticulture trade >> as *Rhoeo spathacea.* >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Commelinales & Zingiberales Week: Commelinales, Tradescantia spathacea >>> Sw,, Prodr. 57. 1788 >>> Syn: *Rhoeo discolor* (L'Hér.) Hance >>> * Rhoeo spathacea* (Sw.) Stearn >>> * Tradescantia discolor* L'Hér. >>> >>> Another common garden ornamental grown in pots and baskets in Delhi, with >>> long red leaves and white flowers enclosed in large spathaceous bracts in >>> the axils of leaves. Formerly known as Rhoeo discolor. >>> >>> Common Names: boat-lily, moses-in-the-cradle, oysterplant >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar, >> Research Student, >> Department of Botany, >> Shivaji University, >> Kolhapur. >> > > > > -- > *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/ > > >
