Many thanks Vijayasankar ji for pointing to the *Borreria* species ... will rectify my notes accordingly. Regards. Dinesh
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >
