One thing I forgot to mention Please try to provide the locality/ ies, caption Information and other details for further flexible documentation process.
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Mayur Nandikar <[email protected]>wrote: > Thank you Raju ji for Sharing such a beautiful snaps and a beautiful plant. > > No doubt here we are completing the genus *Dictyospermum *for India. > ....... (one was earlier posted i.e ovalifolium) and remaining one is > *Dictyospermum > montanum *(which was posted earlier with poor photograph of mine). So here > is......................... > ** > > *Dictyospermum montanum** *Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 6: 30. t. 2069. > 1853, Type India. *Aneilema montanum *(Wt.) Wall. ex Clarke in DC. > Monogr. Phan. 3: 217. 1881; Hook. f., Fl. Br. Ind. 6: 381.1892. > > Erect to ascending perennial herb, up to 30 cm hight. Roots > fibrous, from lower nodes, internodes up to 13 cm long, glabrous; sheath up > to 2.5 cm long, with a line of cilia along the fused margins, mouth ciliate. > Lamina elliptic-lanceolate, base obtuse, margin entire, scabrous, upper and > lower surfaces scabrous; terminal leaves small apex acuminate, up to 13 x > 4.3 cm. Inflorescence terminal; peduncle c. 8 cm long, puberlous; bract > leafy, green ovate, c. 2.3 x 9 mm. Pedicel recurved, 4 mm, glabrous. Sepals > 3, ovate, pale green, free, glabrous, 2.5 x 1.5 mm, margin entire. Petals 3, > ovate, white, glabrous, 3.5 x 2.5 mm, margin entire. Fertile stamens 3; 2 > filaments 1 mm long, middle filament 2.5 mm long, violet band on one side, > glabrous, white, apex violet; anther lobes basifixed, yellow, connective > yellow. Ovary globose-ovate, pale green-white, glabrous, 1 x 1 mm, style > white, 0.5 mm long, glabrous; stigma simple. Capsule globose, glabrous, 3 x > 3 mm; seeds pyriform cream coloured, reticulate, hilum punctiform in furrow; > embryotega lateral. > > *Flowering and fruiting:* November to May. > > * * > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:58 PM, raju das <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> Help me to ID this Commelinaceae sps. Plant height is about 30-40cm. >> >> Regards, >> -- >> Raju Das >> Nature's Foster >> > > > > -- > Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar, > Research Student, > Department of Botany, > Shivaji University, > Kolhapur. > -- Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar, Research Student, Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur.
