Thanks Mayur Ji this was a new one for em tanay On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Mayur Nandikar <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > -- *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/
