They remind more of a fossil group Glossopteridae which was common in Jurassic along with Dinosaurs and perished at the same time, having its inflorescence attached to the petiole of leaf, a structure known as gonophyll, which at least one author (Melville) thought gave rise to angiosperms. The fossils of this group are met in all present day splits of original Gondwana land of which India was once a part.
-- 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 Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote: > flowers/ fruits give the appearence of fig > Madhuri > > --- On *Sun, 11/9/11, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > Subject: [efloraofindia:81130] Malvaceae Week: Tilia platyphyllos from > Kashmir > To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]>, "Flowers of India" < > [email protected]>, "Tabish" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 7:33 AM > > > *Tilia platyphyllos* Scop., Fl. Carniol. ed. 2, 1: 373 1771. > > Common names: *big-leaf linden*, *broadleaf lime*, *large-leaf lime*, > *large-leaf > linden* > > Tree with pubescent young branches; leaves broadly ovate, up to 12 cm long, > obliquely cordate, regularly serrate, pubescent beneath especially along > veins; flowers creamish in drooping cymes, usually 3, rarely 4-6 flowered, > peduncle united for half its length to the ligulate bract; sepals and petals > five each; stamens many; fruit pear-shaped. > > Photographed from Emporium Garden in Srinagar, Kashmir. > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
