Thanks for the clarifying the difference Sir On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps more than flower colour which can vary the more important > difference is > > M. philippica: all flowers in the inflorescence with enlarged calyx lobes > M. erythrophylla: only few flowers in inflorescence with enlarged calyx > lobes > > -- > 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 Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Musseanda philippica aurorae 'Queen Sirikit' from Khalsa College, Delhi. >> >> Shrubs often growing 5 m or more tall, with elliptic-ovate leaves up to >> 15 cm long, slightly hairy beneath; flowers sulphur yellow with 15-22 mm >> long tube, with rounded ovate enlarged sepal up to 7 cm long, nearly as >> broad. >> This particular cultivar has enlarged sepals and bracts are pink >> coloured in this cultivar. >> >> Photographed from Khalsa College, Delhi >> >> There is confusion on whether this particular cultivar belongs to M. >> philippica or M. erythrophylla, and sometimes simply listed as Mussaenda >> 'Queen Sirikit'. However, the two species are quite distinct in corolla, it >> being yellow in M. philippica and white to creamy white with red centre in >> M. erythrophylla. The following key should help in separating cultivated >> members of Rubuaceae. >> >> >> http://homepage.univie.ac.at/christian.puff/FTH-RUB/FTH-RUB_CULTIVATED_compl_WEB.htm >> >> >> -- >> 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
