Gurcharan ji, I meant the attached image in this link: http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/slides/Blistering%20Ammannia.html Now I realize it is not A. octandra as the leaf base is not auriculate in the picture. But as you said it is not A. baccifera owing to the stalked flowers. Could it be A. verticillata? http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250064525
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Vijayasankar ji > This is very interesting. Here are my photographs of A. baccifera from > Tikkar Tal Lake, Morni, Haryana. It looks very similar to second photograph. > Could you kindly give the differences between A. baccifera and A. octandra, > latter I suppose occurs in Western Ghats. > > > -- > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Vijayasankar > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I (partially!) agree with both of your views. >> The second image in FOI, tagged as Ammannia baccifera, could be A. >> octandra. >> And Dinesh ji's link for A.baccifera contains pictures of a Borreria >> (=Spermacoce) species. ( >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/3976733272/lightbox/) >> It doesn't look like Mitracarpus, and it is not Hedyotis for sure. >> >> Regards >> >> Vijayasankar Raman >> National Center for Natural Products Research >> University of Mississippi >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Gurcharan ji ... many thanks for validating and pointing the oddity. You >>> must be correct too. >>> Agreed the first plant to show stalked flowers; but to me it does not >>> look like *Oldenlandia corymbosa* ... will stand corrected if mistaking. >>> >>> Here are views of both plants sighted at different instances : >>> *Ammannia baccifera* ... >>> http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Ammania+baccifera&w=91314344%40N00&s=rec >>> *Oldenlandia corymbosa* ... >>> http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Oldenlandia+corymbosa&w=91314344%40N00&s=rec >>> >>> Will be very glad to have my misidentified plants corrected. >>> >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> While checking Flowers of India in connection with plant uploaded by >>>> Balkar ji, my own photographs uploaded from Morni hills, I realised that >>>> although the second photograph on FOI is clearly Ammania baccifera, the >>>> first plant may not be so. To me the first photograph by Dinesh ji looks to >>>> have clearly stalked flowers, the stem and leaves look different. It may >>>> after all be belonging to Rubiaceae, perhaps Oldenlandia corymbosa. Dinesh >>>> ji please check your records of these photographs and give your valuable >>>> comments. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>>> Retired Associate Professor >>>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>>> >>>> >>> >> > > >
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