Thanks for the inputs, Garg-ji and Rajbhar-ji. Here's another image to show size of flowers, The bug is one of those samll spider types about 3.5 mm * *The best image match is for * G.orientalis * sometimes described as a synonym of G. oxyphylla , is illustrated at
http://plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=129562&language=287 The deeply ridged buds and sahpe of calyx are distinctive . I dont ahve access to a description of g.orientalis. If someone could share, that might decide it. *G.hirsuta* description of Efloras of China and the images avlbl on Efloraof India, and FOI differ in following Leaves long-elliptic or lanceolate; , sepals lanceolate; Flower as seen on EFOI and other images are much smaller, nearly 1/5 to 1/8 of leaf size;: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/WF5pY-KC1DU *G.oxyphylla *has the closest desc. I have seen, from Australian web site, except there the petals are described as being recurved, which is definitely not so in the plant I had observed, and the fruit as being densely hairy, while i had seen the fruit with a thin covering of soft stellate hairs and few long ones. regards A.Sinha On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:08:20 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > > A reply from Anil Rajbhar ji: > "Grewia hirsuta..." > > On 16 May 2012 17:57, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: greenearth <[email protected]> >> Date: 8 May 2012 21:35 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:115965] Which Grewia ? -- AS_080512 >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> >> Please help ID the Grewia species: >> shrub found growing wild in outskirts of Chennai: A medium sized >> straggling shrub, stems about 3 to 4 m long, growing along a storm water >> ditch. >> >> Maybe serrulata, but am not sure if the fruit and flower match. >> >> Thanks. >> A.Sinha >> >> *Grewia sp* >> >> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ahSnWnQzilw/T6lD7_PE-II/AAAAAAAAAIA/4cFk6CLejK8/s1600/AS-Grewia.Q.Fl.jpg> >> >> >> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ixVjtNCkZUo/T6lDIkjYRwI/AAAAAAAAAH4/bgSyUJCelns/s1600/AS-Grewia.Q.LInfl.jpg> >> >> Leaves oblong / lanceolate, 4 to 6” long, margin non-uniformly >> serrulate >> 3 basal veins,Inflorescence axillary cymes; The flowers 1.5 to 2” wide , >> white with greenish tinge in stamens and stigma, sepals 1.5 cm, deeply >> furrowed and light green outside; white glabrous inside, bent with >> knee ; petals about a third as long as sepals, not bent , having >> prominent ovate gland at base; fruit brownish yellow glabrous with >> few hairs, an obscurely bi-lobed drupe with fibrous rind.and two >> 'stones' >> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1860 members & >> 1,15,000 messages on 30/4/12) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of more than 6500 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1860 members & > 1,15,000 messages on 30/4/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 6500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > >
