The Week starts !! Many thanks Nidhan ji for sharing this; genus new to me. But this one is too close to *Diplocyclos palmatus* (L.) C.Jeffrey
Hope to know any striking difference. Will add my posts starting tonight. Regards. Dinesh On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > *Dear All, > This one is Ctenolepis garcini (Linn.) Clarke, Fl. Br. Ind. II: 629; Sicyos > garcini Linn., Mant. 297, 1771; > Blastania garcini Cogn., DC., Mon. Phan. 3: 629, 1881 > Vern.: Shivlingi. > A pretty annual climber. Stem more or less scabrous. Leaves deeply > 5-lobed, membraneous, loosely villous on > both sides, bracts stipuliform, ciliate. Flowers light-green, small. Fruit > globose, 1 x 1 cm, red when ripe. Seeds > enclosed in mucilaginous sap. Photographed from Chakrata, September 2011 > and Morni Hills, October 2010. > > > > > > > > > > * > > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > >
