Surajit ji, can we get nearer to some flowers at whatever best focus - by cropping original pictures (old_VSCN6223.jpg OR old_VSCN6225.jpg) ? Hopefully some time later, you may even get to capture the seedpods -- may give us good lead. My thought is - some species of *Aeschynomene*. Regards. Dinesh
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:34 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Neil Sir, > > I also thought that it might be a *Sesbania* species, specially, *Sesbania > cannabina* (Retz.) > Pers.<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/xaUdJoZOLeI/discussion> > (or > DHONCHE in Bengali), more so because DHONCHE is cultivated in many places > in Hooghly, including that particular place and in this very rainy season. > > Yesterday, i worked for almost 2 hrs. just to understand what does > mucronate or truncate or apiculate or obliquely rounded leaf mean. I paste > below my homework! > > > Leaflet apex = rounded and mucronate = *Aeschynomene indica* > L<http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/DATA/Pf000003.HTM> > . > Leaflet apex = obtuse or truncate-apiculate = *Sesbania cannabina* (Retz.) > Poir. <http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/data/pf000169.htm> > > 1. http://web3.dnp.go.th/botany/BFC/image/leaf/leaf_apex.jpg > 2. > > http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/PLB304/Lecture02VegMorph/images/LeafApexLawrence.jpg > 3. http://www.nswildflora.ca/glossary/Grays/Figs103ffTips.jpg > 4. > > http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/classes/bio366/terminology/vegetative/images/leaves/apices.jpg > 5. http://www.kswildflower.org/drawings/leafapex.jpg > > Leaflet base = obliquely rounded = *Aeschynomene indica* > L.<http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/DATA/Pf000003.HTM> > > 1. http://www.pssc.ttu.edu/techhort/structur/leaves/bases.htm > 2. > > http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/glossaries/vascular/images/lbase.jpg > > Leaflet size : *Aeschynomene indica* L = 2.5-6.5 mm long, 1.2-2.0 mm > broad = > http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200011865 > Leaflet size = .*Sesbania cannabina* (Retz.) Poir. = 8-20(-40) × > 2.5-4(-7) mm = > http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200012310 > > Description = *Aeschynomene indica* L. = > http://www.prota4u.org/protav8.asp?g=psk&p=Aeschynomene+indica+L. > Description = *Sesbania cannabina* (Retz.) Poir. = > http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/data/pf000169.htm > > The above homework led me to *Aeschynomene* species. Only leaflet size > doesn't match. > > Now, as i read the description of *Sesbania bispinosa* at FoP ( > http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242348734) the > same size problem arises, leaflet in this species measures at about 4 cm x > more than 7 mm. > > Thank you very much, > > Regards, > > surajit > > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> This one also looks like Sesbania bisphinosa. >> With regards, >> Neil Soares. >> >> --- On *Wed, 9/26/12, surajit koley <[email protected]>*wrote: >> >> >> From: surajit koley <[email protected]> >> Subject: [efloraofindia:132613] Fabaceae herb ID 26/9/2012 SK >> To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> >> Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 11:36 PM >> >> Sir, >> >> I thought it was SHOLAPITH (*Aeschynomene*), i have been told so by >> local residents, but leaflets are much bigger. I attach pictures of four >> individuals, and also two old records of the same plant. >> >> Species : UNKNOWN >> Habit & Habitat : wild under-shrub in ditches and flooded lowland at >> village outskirts, 5 feet or more tall >> Date : 18/8/12 & 25/9/10 (old, with flowers) >> Place : Khanpur (Hooghly) >> >> Thank you & Regards, >> >> surajit >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> > -- > > > > --
