Fabulous Satish Sir. This can be used in books while describing floral parts at family level. Just amazing clarity again.
Regards Prasad On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent presentation of the floral parts of the species by Phadke > ji. Very useful for taxonomists as well as non taxonomists for > understanding the floral parts arrangement. > Very nice photograph of the bark by Neil Soares ji. > I shall be thankful if you could post the photographs of habit and > foliage of the tree. > > On Feb 17, 9:08 pm, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know the tree *Erythrina suberosa* which grows wild around on the > > outskirts of Pune city. > > The characteristic of the tree is the fissured pale bark.(Will post some > > other time in the same thread) > > I tried to document the floral characters of the species by dissecting > it. > > Hope it will be useful. > > The key differentiating character is the calyx which is not splitting > down > > to the base and is more or less 2-lipped which is seen here. > > The sizes of different parts are also matching with the description given > > by Cooke. > > > > -- > > Dr Satish Phadke > > > > Erythrina suberosa L5.jpg > > 93KViewDownload > > > > Erythrina suberosa L4.jpg > > 115KViewDownload > > > > Erythrina suberosa L6.jpg > > 85KViewDownload > > > > Erythrina suberosa L1.jpg > > 86KViewDownload > > > > Erythrina suberosa L2.jpg > > 83KViewDownload > > > > Erythrina suberosa L3.jpg > > 71KViewDownload -- Prasad Kumar Dash Ecologist, Odisha, India email: [email protected] ph. 09437444241
