The snap is really cool and thanks for the description Mayur Ji tanay On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Mayur Nandikar <[email protected]>wrote:
> Nice caption........... > > *Commelina diffusa** *Burm. f., Fl. Ind. 13, t. 7, f. 2. 1768; Rolla Rao > in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 25: 179. 1964; Panigrahi & Kammathy in J. > Ind. Bot. Soc. 43: 299. 1964; Lakshminarsimhan in Sharma et al., Fl. > Maharashtra (Monocot.) 151, 1996; Faden In: Dassanayake (ed.), Rev. Handb. > Fl. Ceylon 14: 184. 2000. *Commelina nudiflora *sensu Hook. f., Fl. Brit. > India 6: 369. 1892 non* *L. 1753; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay 3: 290. 1906. > > Perennial with diffusely spreading shoots rooting at the nodes, > lacking a definite base; roots thin, fibrous. Leaves distichous, sheaths to > 2 cm long, ciliate at the apex, lamina linear-lanceolate to > lanceolate-elliptic, 1.5-9.5 x 0.4-1.8 cm, glabrous. Spathes on peduncles > (0.7-) 1.3-2.4 cm long, solitary, 1.1-3.5 cm long, 0.4-0.8 cm high, apex > acuminate, base cordate, not at all to slightly falcate, margins free, > smooth to scabrous or ciliolate, surfaces glabrous; upper cincinnus usually > 1-several-flowered; lower cincinnus several-flowered. Flowers bisexual > (lower and occasionally upper cincinnus) and male (upper cincinnus), > (9-)11.5-17 (-20) mm wide, sepals free; paired petals c. 8 mm wide, blue; > medial petal smaller, concolorous; staminodes 2-3, anthrodes cruciform, > yellow; anther of medial stamen with a violet connective. Capsules > oblong-elliptic to quadrate, trilocular, 4.5-7 x 3-4 (-4.5) mm, dorsal > locule 1-seeded, ventral locules (1-)2-seeded. Ventral locule seeds broadly > ovate to transversely elliptic in outline, 1.7-2.8 x 1.3-1.8 mm , testa dark > brown, doubly reticulate, usually white-farinose. > > *Flowering and fruiting:* October to July. > > *Distribution:* Pantropical and warm temperate. > > *Ecology:* Margins of pools, streams, rivers, ponds and marshes, sometimes > growing in water; roadsides, open scrub, evergreen forest, forest edge, and > weed in rice. > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Narendra Joshi <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Commelina Diffusa - Day Flower >> >> -- >> With Regards, >> Narendra Joshi >> > > > > -- > 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/
