Hi Radha, Thanks for your interest in the post. You really added substance to the thread with your comments, apart from being refreshingly honest. No, I did not collect samples. Look forward to more interaction in the future.
Best Wishes, Samir On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:08:04 PM UTC+5:30, radhaveach wrote: > > Hi Samir, > > I read your post and looked at your pics with great interest. You are > right about the confusion regarding this and related species. > I have found WA Talbot's Forest Flora of Bombay Presidency and Sind to be > very helpful here. Vol 1, (under Gymnosporia) > I think you are most probably correct in your identification because > Talbot lists G. puberula as flowering in rainy season. My own photos of G. > konkanensis closely resemble your's except that konkanensis has a spiny > habit. I have checked Talbot's specimens in Blatter herbarium, also. Both > species flower at this time. > Dr Almeida has united Maytenus puberula with G. konkanensis but I do not > agree at all unless there is variation in the habits of the 2 plants ie > armed and unarmed. The leaves and flowers appear the same, at least in > photographs. > > Did you collect samples? > I have not seen this plant anywhere except on Tungareshwar, which is where > Talbot collected G. konkanensis. > > best regards, > Radha > > > > > On Sunday, July 8, 2012 8:20:25 PM UTC+5:30, Samir Mehta wrote: >> >> Dear Fellow Group-Members, >> >> Got a chance to go to Prabalgad with a trekking group, had wanted to go >> there for a long time, after seeing Prasant ji's posts from that area. As >> was to be expected, it was more of a trek than a flower watching trip - and >> a difficult one too. >> >> Spotted this large unarmed shrub just short of Prabal machi, about ? 1000 >> ft asl, the lower surface of the leaf had hairs on the veins (cannot >> remember whether they were hispid or puberulous); flower size was >> approx.1cm. >> >> There seems to be some confusion in the taxonomic nomenclature >> (unresolved in the plant list and not listed at ARS-GRIN and FoC or Fl >> Pakistan). >> The id is based on Fl. Maharashtra 1:241 & 243, but here flowering season >> is given as Dec-Jan, needs to be checked and FBI 1:619. >> The shrub is not listed in Shrikant ji's Flowers of Sahyadri or Further >> Flowers >> of Sahyadri and no image of it was available for comparison in the group >> database or on the net. >> >> Will appreciate if this post can be validated. >> >> >> >> >>
