Dinesh Ji, I wish to visit the place as soon as possible and take pics of flowers and pods, if available. Also i will search my old archives for the original copies of those cropped pics i attached. I hope i didn't delete the originals, what i often do to save my hard-disk space.
Regards, surajit On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > --
