A new one for me Thanks for sharing Mayur Ji tanay On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Mayur Nandikar <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello to all > > *Callisia fragrans* (Lindl.) Woodson in Annals of the Missouri Botanical > Garden 29(3): 154. 1942. *Spironema* *fragrans* > Lindl.<http://www.tropicos.org/Name/8300685> > Edwards's Botanical Register 26: pl. 47. 1840. *Rectanthera fragrans* (Lindl.) > O. Deg. <http://www.tropicos.org/Name/8300802> Flora Hawaiensis 1: 62. > 1932. > > Herbs, perennial, robust, stoloniferous. Stems ascending, > bromeliadlike, to 1 m. Leaves spirally arranged; blade oblong to > lanceolate-oblong, 15--30 ยด 2.5--5cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than > sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glabrous. > Inflorescences terminal, panicles to 30 cm or longer. Flowers fragrant, > subsessile; petals white, lanceolate, 6 mm; stamens 6, long-exserted, > connectives white, broad, flaglike; filaments glabrous; ovary 3-locular, > stigma penicillate. Capsules 3-locular. > > *Distribution:* Introduced for its beautiful foliage or domestic use, > nursery purposes not naturalized. > > -- > 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/
