Well illustrated upload Gurcharan ji; very useful for ID. Regards. Dinesh
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Prasad Dash <[email protected]>wrote: > sir all Ixora are looking amazing through ur lens. > > Regards > > P..................... > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Nice Colored Variety Sir >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> *Ixora coccinea* f.* lutea* (Hutch.) Fosberg & Sachet, Baileya 23 (2): >>> 79, 1989 >>> syn: *Ixora lutea* (Hutch.) >>> >>> Evergreen shrub up to 1.3 m tall; leaves opposite, sessile, oblong, up >>> to 10 cm long, cordate or slightly amplexicaule at baseobtuse or mucronate, >>> lateral veins 8-15 pairs; flowers yellows (in this form) in 5-10 cm wide >>> corymbose cymes on very short peduncle; pedicel almost absent; bracts 6-8 >>> mm long; calyx teeth minute, corolla tube 25-40 mm long, lobes 8-10 mm >>> long, acute; stamens 4 with short filaments, anthers falling early; style >>> exserted; fruit globose, red when ripe. >>> >>> The species is widely cultivated and comes in a variety of colours >>> but can be easily recognised by its smaller habit, sessile almost clasping >>> oblong leaves baring reaching 10 cm, and flowers with corolla lobes usually >>> less than 10 mm long. This yellow variety (now relegated to form) earlier >>> uploaded by me as var. flava (which does not seem to have been a published >>> name) has wider corolla lobes than typical and more fuller flowers. >>> >>> Photographed from Khalsa College, Delhi >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >> > > > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Odisha, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241 >
