Dear Srikant ji, Thank you very much for the information and encouraging comment.
I will recheck the same when I get live specimen. Unfortunately we were not allowed to collect specimens during the field visit. I had gone with IISc team who had permission only to collect amphibians and reptiles, hence I don't have specimen with me. >From my field notebook I recollect that the flowers were around 1cm (max 1.5cm no precise measurement is available) - long. When I rerun the key, I could learnt that H. obtusatus branchlets inflorescence and/or sometimes leaves more or less furfuraceous (Made of or covered with scaly particles, such as dandruff) and leaf base is rounded/acute/auricled whereas, in my specimen leaves, branchlets and inflorescence were glabrous as mentioned in the key provided by Gamble (described as L wallichiana) and the leaf base was narrowed at the base. I had experimented and experienced a variation in flower length of flowers of Dendrophthoe falcata and D nilgirica from populations from KMTR (Tirunelveli) and the Nilgiries (Priya Davidars JBNHS paper). I had presented this work in the 5th International Canopy conference held in Bangalore in 2009. Thanks and Regards Giby On Aug 8, 5:29 pm, shrikant ingalhalikar <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice picture Giby, but pls check flower size. I think this to be H. > obtusata. Flowers appear to be about 2 cm long and with narrow long > lobes. H. wallichiana flowers are just 5-6 mm long with short lobes. > Regards, Shrikant > > On Aug 8, 5:01 pm, Giby Kuriakose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thank you very much Vijay and Samir ji for your comments. > > > Regards, > > Giby > > > On 8 August 2011 10:21, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Very nice picture, Giby. Thanks for sharing the habit picture, too. > > > > Regards > > > > Vijayasankar Raman > > > National Center for Natural Products Research > > > University of Mississippi > > > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Giby Kuriakose > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> *Helixanthera wallichiana* of Loranthaceae family, an endemic, rare, > > >> hemi-parasitic shrub from Silent Valley National Park, Kerala The Picture > > >> was taken during a field visit in April 2007. > > > >> Close up > > >>http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby/1418089994/in/photostream > > > >> Habitat picture is available @ > > >>http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/Loranthaceae/images/HelixantheraWa... > > >> . > > >> This habit picture was taken by my friend Dr K A Subramanian (Scientist C > > >> ZSI, Kolcatta) during the same field trip. > > > >> Regards, > > >> Giby > > > >> -- > > >> GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD > > >> Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), > > >> Royal Enclave, > > >> Jakkur Post, Srirampura > > >> Bangalore- 560064 > > >> India > > >> Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) > > >> visit my pictures @http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby > > > -- > > GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD > > Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), > > Royal Enclave, > > Jakkur Post, Srirampura > > Bangalore- 560064 > > India > > Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) > > visit my pictures @http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby-Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -
