Ok, thanks Mayur ji for all the details. regards, Rashida.
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Mayur Nandikar <[email protected]>wrote: > *Hello I m too confused because of the leaves of above posted plant. But > my opinion is go with **Commelina paludosa** rather than Commelina > forskalaei.* > > *Commelina paludosa** *Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. 1: 2. 1827; Rao and Kammathy, > JBNHS 59: 60, 1962. > > Type: Java. Blume 807. (Herb. Lugd. Bat. 899. 2285-488) > > Lectotype.*Commelina obliqua *Buch. –Ham. ex D. Don. Fl. Nepal. 45. 1825; > Clarke In: Dc., Mon. Phan. 3: 178. 1881; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 372. > 1892; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay 3: 372. 1906; Fischer In: Gamble, Fl. Pres. > Madras, 1076. 1928, non Vahl, 1806. *Commelina polyspatha *Wight, Ic. t. > 2066. 1853. > > Erect-scrambling perennial herb. Stems often erect, simple or > sometimes branched distally, to 1 m, glabrous or sparsely hispidulous. > Leaves sessile; leaf sheath densely brown hispid at mouth and in a line on 1 > side, sometimes either glabrous with only a few hairs at mouth or hirsute > throughout; leaf blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 7--20 × 2--7 cm, > glabrous on both surfaces or adaxially granular hairy and abaxially hirsute. > Involucral bracts often 4--10, forming terminal heads, sessile, funnelform, > c. 2 × 1.5--2 cm, glabrous, proximal margins connate, apex acute or shortly > so. Cincinnus 1; peduncle c. 1.2 cm; flowers 1 to several, nearly included > in involucral bracts; pedicels c. 7 mm, twisted. Sepals 3--6 mm, membranous. > Petals blue, 4.5--8 mm. Capsule ovoid-globose, trigonous, c. 4 mm, 3-valved. > Seeds 1 per valve, dark brown, ellipsoid, c. 3.5 mm, slightly flattened, > finely reticulate; hilum linear-punctiform, embryotega lateral. > > *Flowering and Fruiting:* August to February. > > *Distribution:* *C. paludosa *is distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Burma > and Tropical Africa (Faden, 2000). > > *Localities:* From forest borders of Dajipur, Borbet, Chandrapur > (Maharashtra), Kankumbhi (Karnataka). > > *Ecology:* It is common along forest margins. It prefers exposed or > partially shady habitats. > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Rashida Atthar > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Saw this commelina sp. in the forest of Mumbai in November 2010, is it C. >> benghalensis? >> >> regards, >> Rashida. >> > > > > -- > Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar, > Research Student, > Department of Botany, > Shivaji University, > Kolhapur. >
