Hi, Please check this post by Dr. Vijayasankar : https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!search/Dendrolobium$20triangulare$20Vijayasankar/indiantreepix/SGV5pF-e2dA/Sdg_0HVLJHYJ The tree in question here & my plants surely don't look similar to this. With regards, Neil Soares.
--- On Mon, 11/26/12, radhaveach <[email protected]> wrote: From: radhaveach <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:139154] Tree for ID : Pali,Maharashtra : 251112 : AK-2 To: [email protected] Cc: "radhaveach" <[email protected]>, "Dinesh Valke" <[email protected]>, "Prasad Dash" <[email protected]>, "Nidhan Singh" <[email protected]>, "Krushnamegh Kunte" <[email protected]>, "renee vyas Vyas" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, November 26, 2012, 2:37 PM 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]> wrote: From: radhaveach <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:139131] Tree for ID : Pali,Maharashtra : 251112 : AK-2 To: [email protected] Cc: "Dinesh Valke" <[email protected]>, "Neil Soares" <[email protected]>, "Prasad Dash" <[email protected]>, "Nidhan Singh" <[email protected]>, "Krushnamegh Kunte" <[email protected]>, "renee vyas Vyas" <[email protected]> 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 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]> 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]> 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]> 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]> 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] ph. 09437444241 -- -- -- -- --
