Nidhan ji thank you for sharing such a beautiful *Tricarpelema *J. K. Morton and your guess is right, this is Commelinaceae member. Exactly could not say the species, because this genus having great diversity in NE India,. Total 8 species, only 1 species was found in Africa while remaining 8 are distributed through NE India to the Philippines and Borneo.
Thank you once again for adding one more genus in eflora database, especially from Commelinaceae [?] On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear All, > > This herb was shot from Dehradun-Mussoorie road in September 2010 and for > me this can be any Commelinaceae member. I know and regret for bad quality > pics, but still hope to find id as the flower colour looks quite unusual to > me. > It was raining badly that day, I could not get any better pics of this. I > hope I can get clue up to Genus level, if not species. > > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > > -- Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar, Research Student, Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. 07507013607
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