Thanks Satish ji
-- 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 Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > *Very nice introduction Gurcharan ji.* > > *Adding some data from BSI Flora Mah. in the same thread.* > *The Key for Ceasalpiniaceae (S. Moorthy)* > 1. Leaves bi-foliolate; leaflets not distinct, usually united into one. > ......................BAUHINIA > 1. Leaves 1-2 pinnate; leaflets distinct: > 2. Leaves bipinnate: > 3. Flowers in elongate spikes > ............................................................MOULLAVA > 3. Flowers in racemes or panicles > ................................................... CAESALPINIA > 2. Leaves unipinnate : > 4. Calyx tube elongate, more than 1 cm long > .....................................TAMARINDUS > 4. Calyx tube short, less than 0.5 cm long : ...... > 5.Petals 5 : > 6. Pods many seeded, seeds albuminous > ......................................CASSIA > 6. Pods 1 seeded; seeds exalbuminous > .................................CYNOMETRA > 5. Petals absent : > 7. Calyx tube short; ovary sessile ovules > 2..............................HARDWICKIA > 7. Calyx tube elongate; ovary stalked, ovules > many.........................SARACA > > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Since The coming week will have maximum upload of species from Cassia >> complex now divided into three genera, here is simple key to separate them >> >> 1a. The longest filament (or filaments of three anterior stamens) >> sigmoidally >> curved, longest more than 2.5 cm long >> ................................................ 1. Cassia >> 1b. The longest filament straight, less than1 cm >> long.................................... 2 >> >> 2a. Ovary stalk more than 0.9 mm long, fruit more than 9 cm long; >> bracteoles absent; legume not elastically coiling >> .....................................2. Senna >> 2b. Ovary stalk less than 0.9 mm long, fruitless than 9 cm long; braceoles >> present; legume elastically >> coiling......................................................... 3. >> Chamaecrista >> >> >> Species expected (I would be happy if more get added) >> >> *Cassia* >> 1. Cassia fistula L. >> 2. Cassia grandis L.f. >> 3. Cassia javanica var. javanica >> 4. Cassia javanica var. nodosa (Cassia nodosa Buch.-Ham.; >> C. javanica var. indochinensis Gagnep.) >> 5. Cassia moschata Kunth >> 6. Cassia renigera >> 7. Cassia roxburghii DC. (Cassia marginata Roxb.) >> >> *Chamaecrista* >> 1. *Chamaecrista* *absus* (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Cassia absus L.) >> 2. *Chamaecrista* *kleinii* (Wight & Arn.) V.Singh (Cassia kleinii >> Wight. & Arn.) >> 3. Chamaecrista leschenaultiana (DC.) Degener (syn: *Cassia wallichiana * >> DC.) >> 4. Chamaecrista mimosoides L. (Cassia mimosoides L.) >> 5. *Chamaecrista* *nomame* (Sieber) H.Ohashi ( *Cassia hochstetteri* >> Ghesq.) >> 6. *Chamaecrista* *pumila* (Lam.) K.Larsen (Cassia pumila Lam.) >> >> >> *Senna* >> 1. Senna alata (L.) Roxb. (*Cassia alata* L.) >> 2. Senna alexandrina Mill. (*Cassia senna* L.) >> 3. *Senna* *auriculata* (L.) Roxb. (Cassia auriculata L.) >> 4. Senna bacillaris (L.f.) IRWIN & Barneby (Cassia bacillaris L.f.) >> 5. Senna bicapsularis (L.) Roxb. (Cassia bicapsularis L.) >> 6. *Senna* *corymbosa* (Lam.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Cassia corymbosa Lam.) >> 7. Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (*Cassia didymobotrya >> * Fresen.) >> 8. *Senna* *floribunda* (Cav.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Cassia floribunda >> Cav.) >> 9. Senna hirsuta (L.) Irwin & Barneby (Cassia hirsuta L.) >> 1o. Senna italica Mill. subsp. italica >> 11. *Senna* *italica* subsp. *micrantha* (Brenan) Lock (Cassia italica >> subsp. micrantha Brenan; C. obovata Collad.; C. obtusa Roxb.) >> 12. Senna montana (Roth) V. Singh (Cassia montana Roth; Cassia setigera >> DC.) >> 13. Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) Irwin & Barneby (Cassia tomentosa L.f.) >> 14. Senna multijuga (Rich.) Irwin & Barneby (Cassia multijuga Rich.) >> 15. *Senna* *obtusifolia* (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Cassia obtusifolia >> L.) >> 16. *Senna* *occidentalis* (L.) Link (Cassia occidentalis (L.) Rose) >> 17. Senna septemtrionalis (Viviani) Irwin & Barneby >> 18. Senna siamea (Lam.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (*Cassia siamea* Lam.) >> 19. *Senna* *sophera* (L.) Roxb. (Cassia sophera L.) >> 20. *Senna* *sophera* var. *purpurea* (Lindl.) V.Singh (Cassia purpurea >> Roxb. ex Lindl.) >> 21. *Senna* *spectabilis* (DC.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Cassia spectabilis >> DC.) >> 22. *Senna* *sulfurea* (Collad.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Cassia sulfurea >> Collad; C. glauca Lam.) >> 23.*Senna* *surattensis* (Burm.f.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Cassia >> surattensis Burm.f.) >> 24. *Senna* *timoriensis* (DC.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Cassia timoriensis >> DC.) >> 25. *Senna* *tora* (L.) Roxb. (Cassia tora L.) >> 26. Senna uniflora (Mill.) Irwin & Barneby (Cassia uniflora Mill.) >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Many thanks Gurcharan ji for taking the lead. >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Nice Start Up Sir >>>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Fabaceae Lindley Bean or Pea family >>>> > (=Leguminosae A. L. de Jussieu) >>>> > >>>> > Subfamily Caesalpinioideae DC. >>>> > B & H, Takhtajan, Thorne, APG III and APweb as Caesalpinioideae >>>> > Cronquist and Dahlgren as family Caesalpiniaceae. >>>> > >>>> > Approx.150 genera, 2,700 species >>>> > Distributed mainly in tropics and subtropics, a few species in the >>>> temperate >>>> > regions. >>>> > >>>> > Salient features: Trees, shrubs or herbs, leaves usually pinnate >>>> compound >>>> > with pulvinate base, flowers zygomorphic corolla not papilionaceous, >>>> > posterior petal innermost, sepals free, odd sepal anterior, stamens >>>> 10, >>>> > usually free, in two whorls , ovary superior, carpel 1, fruit a pod. >>>> > >>>> > Major genera: Chamaecrisia (260 species), Bauhinia (250), Senna (250), >>>> > Caesalpinia (120) and Cassia (30). >>>> > >>>> > Description: Trees (Delonix), shrubs or herbs, rarely woody climbers >>>> > (Pterolobium, Bauhinia). Leaves alternate, pinnately or palmately >>>> compound, >>>> > sometimes simple (Bauhinia), leaf base (sometimes also the base of >>>> leaflets) >>>> > pulvinate, stipules present. Inflorescence racemose, in racemes or >>>> spikes >>>> > (Dimorphandra). Flowers bracteate (bracts usually caducous) bisexual, >>>> > zygomorphic, perigynous. Calyx with 5 sepals, rarely 4 (Amherstia), >>>> free or >>>> > rarely connate (Bauhinia), odd sepal anterior. Corolla with 5 petals, >>>> rarely >>>> > 3 (Amherstia), 1 (Pahuda) or even absent (Tamarindus), free, not >>>> > papilionaceous, posterior petal innermost. Androecium with 10 stamens, >>>> > sometimes lesser (3 in Tamarindus), rarely more, free, sometimes >>>> unequal in >>>> > size (Cassia), anthers bithecous, dehiscence longitudinal or by apical >>>> > pores. Gynoecium with a single carpel, unilocular with many ovules, >>>> > placentation marginal, ovary superior, style single, curved. Fruit a >>>> legume >>>> > or pod, rarely a lomentum; seeds 1-many, seed coat hard, endosperm >>>> minute or >>>> > absent, food reserves in cotyledons. >>>> > >>>> > Economic importance: The Subfamily includes several ornamentals such >>>> as >>>> > pride of Barbados (Caesalpinia pulcherrima), paulo verde >>>> (Parkinsonia), red >>>> > bud (cercis canadensis), Gul-mohar (Delonix regia), and several >>>> species of >>>> > Cassia and Senna. Many species of Senna are cultivated for leaves >>>> that >>>> > yield drug senna. The heartwood of Haematoxylon campechianum (logwood) >>>> > yields the dye hematoxylin. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Please feel free to share photographs of your collection of this group >>>> > during the week. Also resurface any unidentified members and upload >>>> those >>>> > meant for fresh identification/confirmation. >>>> > >>>> > The mails should have subject line "Fabaceae-Caesalpinioidea >>>> > (Caesalpiniaceae) Week:.................." >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > 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/ >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Dr Balkar Singh >>>> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology >>>> Arya P G College, Panipat >>>> Haryana-132103 >>>> 09416262964 >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke >
