Santosh ji It would be helpful to know the full reference of this monograph on Ixora. I am waiting for your upload.
-- 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 Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Dr E S Santhosh Kumar < [email protected]> wrote: > There is a good monograph on Indian species of Ixora by Tariq Hussain of > NBRI. The key and description quite reliable and easy to use. Ixora > polyantha is a remarkable species never confusing with any of these shown > photographs. I will post a separate photograph of Ixora polyantha for > comparison. > > Santhosh > > > On 14 November 2011 14:52, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> “This is *Ixora finlaysoniana* >> >> Santhosh” >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> Date: 14 May 2011 16:45 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:69450] two plants two names which is which: Ixora >> polyantha and Ixora finlaysoniana?? >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> >> >> These two types of plants of Ixora have been bothering me for a long >> time. Both differ clearly from similar species I. pavetta in much longer >> corolla tube, 20-30 mm long. Both have nearly elliptic-lanceolate to >> elliptic-oblanceolate leaves, 6-20 cm long, with cuneate base and narrowed >> to 5-10 mm long petiole. Both have white flowers, which in one (sp-a) are >> lesser in number, forming a spreading inflorescence and petals are flat >> nearly 2.5 mm wide. In second (sp-b) flowers are more in number, dense and >> forming nearly globose inflorescence; with corolla lobes which are mostly >> reflexed along the margin (and looking similar to I. pavetta) so that they >> look very narrow (hardly 1-1.5 mm wide), but a few flowers would have flat >> corolla lobes which may be up to 2.5 mm wide or so (latter has been >> tentatively identified by Dinesh ji as I. finlaysoniana). >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2093739918/in/photostream/ >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2093737856/in/photostream/ >> >> Ixora polyantha is described from Malabar in India and is commonly >> cultivated in Pakistan and India according to eFlora of India. Ixora >> finlaysoniana is plant from Thialand, Phillippines, widely cultivated in >> China and N E India, as per eFlora of China. >> >> I have tried to find out differences between the two species from >> available sources, but could not succeed. Could any member lay hands to a >> publication which describes and keys out both the species, so that our >> specimens can be clearly fixed?. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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'. >> >> > > > -- > SANTHOSH > ----------------------------------- > > Dr. E S SANTHOSH KUMAR PhD, FIAT, FLS > Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode > Karimancode P.O. > Thiruvananthapuram-695562 > Kerala, India > www.drsanthosh.wetpaint.com > Ph: 0091 472 2585373 (Home) > 0091 9446085373 (Mobile) > 0091 4722869628 extn.225 (Office) > Please consider your environmental responsibility:Before printing this > e-mail, ask yourself whether you need a hard copy! > >
