Hi everyone, I don't have access to my pics now as I"m away. Have a look at this and see what you think. Also read up the leaf characters in the floras.
http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/Desmodium_umbellatum.htm best Radha On Monday, November 26, 2012 1:01:05 PM UTC+5:30, Neil wrote: > > Hi, > Don't think so. According to Dr. Almeida's 'Flora of Maharashtra', the > pods of D. triangulare are 2 - 2.5 cms. long, slightly curved, indented on > both sutures, more deeply on the lower one, joints 3 - 6, as broad as long, > slightly pubescent. Whereas in D. umbellatum the pods are 4 - 5 cms. long, > sparsely silky when young, glabrous when ripe, thick and coriaceous, almost > turgid, not reticulately veined, indented on both sutures, joints 4 = 5 > [usually 4], 8-6 cm [?]. > > Also whereas D. triangulare is a shrub, D. umbellatum is described as a > bushy shrub [ocassionally growing to be a small tree]. > > Therefore feel that the tree in question here is D. umbellatum. > > With regards, > Neil Soares. > > > --- On *Mon, 11/26/12, radhaveach <[email protected] <javascript:>>*wrote: > > > From: radhaveach <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:139131] Tree for ID : Pali,Maharashtra : > 251112 : AK-2 > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > Cc: "Dinesh Valke" <[email protected] <javascript:>>, "Neil Soares" < > [email protected] <javascript:>>, "Prasad Dash" > <[email protected]<javascript:>>, > "Nidhan Singh" <[email protected] <javascript:>>, "Krushnamegh Kunte" < > [email protected] <javascript:>>, "renee vyas Vyas" < > [email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: Monday, November 26, 2012, 8:43 AM > > Hello, > to me it is clearly Desmodium triangulare as first stated by Neil. > The leaves of the 2 plants are quite different. Sorry to add to the > confusion! > > best > Radha > > On Monday, November 26, 2012 7:28:42 AM UTC+5:30, Aarti S. Khale wrote: > > Neil ji, Dinesh ji > Thanks from me too for giving me the correct id. > Regards, > Aarti > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Many thanks Neil ji for resolving the ID. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi, > > Went through the literature and Dr. Almeida's 'Flora of Maharashtra'. > Agree with Dinesh Valke & Prasad Dash. This is Desmodium umbellatum > [previously Dendrolobium umbellatum]. > > Have plenty of these plants on my property at Shahapur. This was > identified by Dr. Almeida & his associate Santosh Yadav on a visit to my > property on the 12th of August 2007 as Desmodium triangulare as also stated > by me in this correspondence : > > https://groups.google.com/ forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#! search/Desmodium$ > 20triangulare$20Neil$20Soares/ wildflowerindia/rwTNMcHRsi0/ > dP52UN_ir1AJ<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#%21search/Desmodium$20triangulare$20Neil$20Soares/wildflowerindia/rwTNMcHRsi0/dP52UN_ir1AJ> > > Presumably their diagnosis was based only on observing the plants, as > [from my records over the last few years] flowering occurs in Sept. & Oct., > whereas it fruits between Oct. to Dec. > > It is therefore likely that Dr. Almeida & Santosh Yadav erred in their > diagnosis. > > My apologies to all and to Krushnameg Kunte [to whom I am also forwarding > this mail]. > > Sending a few of my photographs. > > With regards, > Neil Soares. > > > > > > > --- On *Sun, 11/25/12, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:139081] Tree for ID : Pali,Maharashtra : > 251112 : AK-2 > To: "Aarti S. Khale" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Prasad Dash" <[email protected]>, "Nidhan Singh" < > [email protected]>, "Neil Soares" <[email protected]>, > "efloraofindia" <indian...@googlegroups. com> > Date: Sunday, November 25, 2012, 7:40 PM > > > To me it is *Dendrolobium umbellatum*, the horse bush ... locally known > as पांढरा चिकटा pandhra chikta. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Aarti S. Khale > <[email protected]<http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Prasad ji, > Thanks. I will. > > Neil ji, > Forgot to add earlier, thanks for the link. > > Regards to all, > Aarti > > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Prasad Dash > <[email protected]<http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Please also check Dendrolobium umbellatum. Just have second thought. > > Regards > > Prasad > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Aarti S. Khale > <[email protected]<http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Nidhan ji, > > I think you were writing to me same time, as I was replying to Neil ji. > Thanks for your encouraging words. > Regards, > Aarti > > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Nidhan Singh > <[email protected]<http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Thanks Aarti Ji for upload and Neil Ji for identification...I am yet to > see this.. > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Assisstant Professor > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > > > -- > > > > > > > > -- > Dr. Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Odisha, India > email: > [email protected]<http://us.mc1601.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > ph. 09437444241 > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > -- > > > > > --
