Amazing shots of a beautiful plants!!!! On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Ushadi micromini <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes entire series of Caralluma is fascinating... > thanks > Usha di > ===== > > On Dec 19, 12:13 pm, prasad dash <[email protected]> wrote: >> Simply superb catch Prabhu Ji. >> >> Regards >> >> prasad >> >> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Prabhu kumar KM >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Dear all, >> > This is *Caralluma adscendens var. attenuata. *I collected this species >> > from Tamil Nadu. >> >> > The type species of the genus *Caralluma* is *C. adscendens *(Roxb.) , a >> > species originally described from India (Meve & Liede 2002). *C. >> > adscendens* is a very variable species, which needs a complete revision. >> > 6 varities of *C. adscendens *have been recognized from India. This is >> > one of thw species among them. >> > A fleshy herb, among bushes in hills and on dry slopes of ghats.Branched >> > stem, quadrangular, tapering from base to apex. Internodes glabrous; latex >> > watery; leaves reduced to scale like structures, caducous. Flowers >> > terminal, pedicels glabrous. Calyx 5-lobed, lanceolate, apex acute; corolla >> > rotate, 5-lobed and spathulate.Corona staminal, biseriate. Stamens and >> > pollinia 5. Follicles paired and glabrous. >> >> > -- >> > *Prabhu Kumar K M* >> > Scientist >> > Plant Systematics & Genetic Resources Division >> > Centre for Medicinal Plant Research (CMPR) >> > & 'CMPR' Herbarium >> > Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala >> > Kottakkal, Malappuram >> > *E-mail: [email protected]* >> >> -- >> Prasad Kumar Dash >> Ecologist, Orissa, India >> email: [email protected] >> ph. 09437444241
-- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
