nice to know , Dinesh, thanks Gurcharnaji: NO I AM NOT CONFUSED I was looking at the plants in the link you gave above .. its from a university on the Mediterranean islands off coast of Spain
my question was about this E. laeta... that website shows plants older than any I have seen from any indian book or site...hence the questions... if it is our native.. how come we / indians dont have pictures of older plants ???? that's what I as asking... or are the spaniards more careful of their plants? usha di On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Ushadi > I think you got confused. E. dendroides is a different species not found > in India. It shares with E. rothiana of Kas region, the synonyms which are > homonyms. > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:50 PM, ushadi Micromini < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Interesting discussion... >> 1: is this native of the mediterranean islands? since the website link >> is from univ in the tiny island... >> >> 2: the pictures of their garden's samples seem several years old... >> do they grow that big in KAS or in the western ghats... ie comfortable >> for a few years? >> or do they get eaten by goats etc and are seen small specimen only? >> >> or are they newly naturalized "weeds" ??? >> >> sorry asked a lot of questions and may be some Maharashtra college >> botanists/ecologists / forest dept would have these aswwers ... >> >> usha di >> == >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Euphorbia laeta B Heyne ex Roth. (1821) can't be the correct name for >>> two reasons >>> 1. It is an illegitimate name being a later homonym of E. laeta Aiton >>> (1789), a totally different species now considered as synonym of Euphorbia >>> dendroides L. >>> >>> http://herbarivirtual.uib.es/cat-med/especie/4468.html >>> >>> This is another example of confusions we land into when not citing the >>> authors. I found numerous entries on the web of this plant, with two as >>> synonyms and none citing the authority. >>> >>> E. rothiana Spreng should thus be taken as correct name and Euphorbia >>> laeta B. Heyne ex Roth as synonym. >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> Retired Associate Professor >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> BSI Flora of Maharashtra and FOS mentions this as *Euphorbia laeta. >>>> *Family : Euphorbiaceae. >>>> Syn. *Euphorbia rothiana* >>>> Dr Satish Phadke >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> [image: ... Kas >>>>> skyline]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F8035015844%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcDVdj__6tKTqSABRfvEGMun25Rew> >>>>> Kas >>>>> plateau ... about 4000 ft asl >>>>> ... one of the 39 World Heritage sites in the Western Ghats of India >>>>> ------------------------------ >>>>> 19 OCT 07 >>>>> * Euphorbia rothiana * Spreng. ... (family: Euphorbiaceae) >>>>> *yoo-FOR-bee-uh* -- named for *Euphorbus*, Greek physician to Juba II >>>>> ... Dave's >>>>> Botanary<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdavesgarden.com%2Fguides%2Fbotanary%2Fsearch.php%3Fsearch_text%3DEuphorbia&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcB4PSD5iKKcxl13f1AoQkn8DcwUw> >>>>> *roth-ee-AY-nuh* -- named for Dr A W >>>>> Roth<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAlbrecht_Wilhelm_Roth&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcr5mL4hrQvDWMnT1nzAP6xh0d3pw>, >>>>> a German botanist ... >>>>> ‡<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archive.org%2Fstream%2Fvernacularlistof00lush%2Fvernacularlistof00lush_djvu.txt&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzfto3zwZ-WPoVWmxbCgs1gKlnCegA> >>>>> >>>>> *commonly known as*: common hill spurge • *Marathi*: दुधी dudhi >>>>> >>>>> *Native to*: peninsular India, Sri Lanka >>>>> >>>>> *References*: Flowers of >>>>> India<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flowersofindia.net%2Fcatalog%2Fslides%2FCommon%2520Hill%2520Spurge.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzfVHm-XYLB3aZGX9bNwG9NesLx4ZQ>• >>>>> *Flowers of Sahyadri* by Shrikant Ingalhalikar >>>>> [image: Euphorbia rothiana >>>>> Spreng.]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F1653198487%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdip2FONYlx1nT-hcRpfvtRipaxjA> >>>>> >>>>> [image: Dudhi (Marathi: >>>>> दुधी)]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F1653453777%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdcPLnJ0wE-GjrAS5ExLiIZbnuqYw> >>>>> [image: >>>>> Euphorbia rothiana >>>>> Spreng.]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F1654680850%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzc42_CIimOffkt2idnRyXHwRhjDxw> >>>>> Regards. >>>>> Dinesh >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> >> > > > -- Usha di =========== --
