need to local flora....we may corr. to Yadav Sir, ...sryada...@rediffmail.com....for further confirmation.
*********************************************** Dr. Pankaj N. Joshi, Programme Coordinator sahjeevan 175- Jalaram Society, B/h. Vishwamangal Appt., Vijay Nagar, Hospital Road Bhuj-Kutch, Gujarat: 370001 (India) Phone: 91 2832 251814, Fax: 91 2832 251914, Mobile: 9426949523 E-mail: joshi.pn.sahjee...@gmail.com Office E-mail: sahjee...@gmail.com Website: www.sahjeevan.org *********************************************** --- On Tue, 16/8/11, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:77254] Flacourtia species for ID. To: "efloraofindia" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> Cc: le...@rediffmail.com, drsmpha...@gmail.com, tchak...@gmail.com, ajinkyagad...@gmail.com, agastiayur...@yahoo.co.in, aparnawat...@gmail.com, raanibha...@gmail.com, neha.vind...@gmail.com, rahumu...@gmail.com, plumbagozeylan...@gmail.com, mohinamac...@gmail.com, "Vijayasankar Raman" <vijay.botan...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, 16 August, 2011, 6:35 PM Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. Some earlier relevant feedback: “After reading a lot from older posts and literature I understood some important points about Flacourtia genus............ 1) It now belongs to Salicaceae and previously to Flacourtiaceae. 2) The flowers are without petals. Only sepals 3) Flowers are unisexual. Fruit is a berry.rather than a capsule as in Casearia (My pictures are probably showing only male flowers) 4) If one sees female flowers one has to look carefully for the stigma and style to differentiate between the species. 5) There is a lot of confusion between F.indica and F. latifolia. 6) Acc. Flora of BSI Mah ; Styles absent(stigma sessile)...F.latifolia Styles distinct and conspicuous: Tomentose young twigs; leaves turning brown on drying .... F.montana Glabrous young twigs; Leaves not turning brown .... F.indica. 7)Cooke's Flora doesn't mention F.indica. 8) From Cooke's flora. the size of flower is a good additional differentiating character. Drupe size of a cherry; scarlet when ripe ...............................................................F. Montana Drupe size of a plum; purple when ripe…………………………………………………………………F.cataphracta Drupe size of a pea; Stigmas 5-11………………………………………………………………………………………………………….F.Ramontchii Stigmas 3-4……………………………………………………………………………………………………………F.latifolia 9) In all the above species the thorns do not bear flowers and fruits.Cooke mentions about one species which bears flowers and fruits on thorns as F.sepiaria Now I have to go to the species and check for female flowers; check for the young twigs to see whether they are glabrous ortomentose.....hmmmmm and also take some leaves for drying to see whether they turn brown.I think I had kept some twigs for 2 days which dried but did not turn brown. Dr Phadke” “This could be a male plant of Flacourtia ramontchi. We have discussed this earlier also, I think. Again there is difference of opinion about its synonymy with F. indica. Regards Vijayasankar Raman” ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> Date: 23 January 2011 14:52 Subject: [efloraofindia:60966] Flacourtia species for ID. To: indiantreepix <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> I think this is Flacourtia latifolia T.Cooke. Please validate. A small tree flowering presently (23 Jan 2010) on Vetal Tekdi Pune. Armed with sharp spines. Leaves ovate, obovate alternate with serrate margins red petiole. Flowers yellow with many stamens. No styles or stigmas visible. Size 0.5 cm or so. in small racemes. Dr Phadke -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1680 members & 75,000 messages on 31/7/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 5000 species)
