Awesome catch Nidhan Sir.

Regards

Prasad

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote:

> The staminal tube with teeth looks awesome.
> Very Good.
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This one *Melia azedarach** Linn., Sp. Pl. 384; *commonly called Dhrek,
>> Bakain, Dek, is a medium-sized to large tree, with dark grey bark. Leaves
>> 20-40 cm, 2- or 3-pinnate. Pinnae nearly opposite. Leaflets 3-11, ovate or
>> lanceolate, serrate or entire, acuminate with more or less oblique base.
>> Flowers honey-scented, in long, peduncled, axillary panicles. Calyx deeply
>> 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate-oblong. Petals linear spathulate, minutely hairy.
>> Staminal tube purple with 20-30 linear teeth, anthers at the mouth of the
>> tube, sessile, apiculate. Ovary 5-celled. Drupes globose, more or less dry,
>> yellow and wrinkled when ripe.
>>
>> Was shot from Singhpura Khera, Kaithal-Haryana in March 2011.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dr. Nidhan Singh
>> Department of Botany
>> I.B. (PG) College
>> Panipat-132103 Haryana
>> Ph.: 09416371227
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr Satish Phadke
>



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Prasad Kumar Dash
Ecologist, Odisha, India
email: [email protected]
ph. 09437444241

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