Please read the subject line as 15/11/12 in place of 15/1/12 and Regards, in place of Reagards...
Thank you once again, Regards, surajit On Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:25:51 UTC+5:30, surajitkoley wrote: > > Good morning > > A net search for the *Crotalaria saltiana* takes me to *Crotalaria pallida > *, and pictures tell me that my species might be the same, more so > because Satish Sir has one at - > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/WD1eSIfaT0o/discussion. > > What FoC says about *C. pallida* ? - (Leaflets) apex obtuse to retuse; > racemes terminal...... > http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242315565 > Well, my species shows the above characters! > > Let's see "Bengal Plants" (Prain), vol1, p 370-371; i copy a few lines :- > > Leaves digitately compound :- > Leaflets almost always 5, sometimes 7, very rarely 3, narrowly linear or > oblanceolate, obtuse; pod glabrous many-seeded, cylindric, shortly stalked > ............... *quinquefolia* > Leaflets *always 3, ovate or oblong* :- > Pods oblong or cylindric, many-seeded :- > > Erect, shrubby; bracts minute setaceous; pods large :- > Pods pubescent, subsessile :- > Leaflets obovate, obtuse; pods loosely pubescent > ....... *incana* > Leaflets oblong, acute; pods densely pubescent > ......... *bracteata* > * Pods glabrous* :- > *Pods subsessile* :- > Leaflets *oblong, acute* ................... *Brownei* > Leaflets *obovate, obtuse* ............ *Saltiana* > Pods with a long, slender, filiform gynophore; leaflets > obovate-oblong acute ......... *laburnifolia* > * > * > Prostrate, diffuse, herbaceous ..................... etc etc > > According to The Plant List :- > *Crotalaria brownei* DC. = *Crotalaria pallida* Aiton = > http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/ild-26386 > *Crotalaria saltiana* Andrews is different taxon = > http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/ild-5497 = also in > http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?12378 > > Found a picture of *C. saltiana* - > http://www.flickr.com/photos/holudforing/6985903468/ > > Species : *Crotalaria saltiana* Andrews ? > H & H : wild undershrub in a waste place, less than 2 feet > Date : 12/11/12, 12.01 p.m. > Place : Hooghly > > Thank you & Reagards, > > surajit > > --
