It doesn't look like A. pungens. It may be* Alternanthera* *paronychioides.*
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:16 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > "Here is a reply from Shrikant ji: > Dear Mr. Garg > A.sessilis has linear leaves whereas your plant has orbicular or obovate > leaves. The plant is A. pungens which is a native of Central America, > naturalised in India. Another difference (you can see through a lens) > between the 2 species is that the latter has spinescent heads and the > tepals are dissimilar which is not so with A. sessilis. My book gives > picture of A. sessilis which differs from yours. *I do have a picture of > A. pungens which tallies with yours*. Regds Shrikant" > > "Here are a few good links with details & pictures of Khaki weed > (Alternanthera pungens): > http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/thumbnails/html/alternanthera_pungens.htm&; > http://www.hear.org/Pier/species/alternanthera_pungens.htm"; from me. > > "This plant from Hyderabad by Garg ji as per feedback in the thread ( > https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/c76f97f48977a925?hl=en#) > has > been *wrongly labelled as A. pungens at FOI website.* " from Singh ji. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > Date: 23 July 2008 08:58 > Subject: For Id 230708JM2 > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > > > In the wet bed of Himmat Sagar Lake in Hyderabad, AP on 20/7/08. > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > "We often ignore the beauty around us" > For learning about our trees & plants, please visit/ join Google e-group > (Indiantreepix) http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > For my Birds, Butterflies, Trees, Landscape pictures etc., visit > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/J.M.Garg > > > > -- > 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'. > >
