Yes surely Alternanthera paronychioides
-- 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 Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > 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'. >> >> >
