New image now attached
On Saturday, May 19, 2012 1:59:51 PM UTC+5:30, greenearth wrote: > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e82XVskXmRY/T7damKKDkRI/AAAAAAAAAKM/iQcdwyq7dx8/s1600/AS-Grewiia.Q.scale.jpg>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'. >> >>
