Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> Date: 8 May 2011 11:04 Subject: [efloraofindia:69027] Spermacoce ocymoides VS Mitracarpus hirtus To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>
Dear friends, *Mitracarpus hirtus* seems to very closely resembling *Spermacoce ocymoides* . 1) is *Mitracarpus hirtus* also distributed (naturalized) in India ? 2) how can *Mitracarpus hirtus* and *Spermacoce ocymoides* be differentiated ? Here is the photopage of *Spermacoce ocymoides*, where a comment (*Mitracarpus hirtus*) is put. [image: Spermacoce ocymoides]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/5634249302/> Regards. Dinesh -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) 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 1740 members & 90,000 messages on 31/10/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
