Dear Dinesh,
Kudos for the thorough post, including the excerpts from the
original reference of C. subumbellata - Flora of British India,
Hooker.
The leaves seem to agree very well with the description. I had also
zoomed in to one of your pictures to see that the flowers have 6
stamens.
- Tabish
On Jul 15, 1:06 pm, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear friends,
> ID provided by Satish Pardeshi ji over Google Buzz ... *Cardamine scutata*.
> Seems to me, *C. subumbellata**
>
> *
> Date/Time : July 11, 2010 at 8.07am IST
> Location Place : near Prabal Machi, Panvel, Maharashtra
> Altitude : about 204 m (above mean sea level)
> GPS : around 18.982835°N, 73.211909°E
>
> Habitat : wild, along forest trails
> Type : moist deciduous forest
>
> Plant
> Habit : herb
> Height : about 25 - 30 cm
>
> **
>
> Satish ji, while gathering information from internet:
> 1) the plant posted by me looks more agreeable with C. subumbellata
> references:
> a) Cooke's flora ... description attached ... online
> athttp://www.archive.org/stream/floraofpresidenc01cook#page/30/mode/2up...
> b) Hooker's flora ... description attached ... online
> athttp://www.archive.org/stream/floraofbritishin01hook#page/138/mode/2u...
>
> 2) Status of *C. scutata* not very clear ... an article related to Cardamine
> species in American journal of Botany
> athttp://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/93/8/1206
> a) at flickr looks different (although, not dependable)
> ...http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=Cardamine+scutata&m=text
>
> 3) at IPNI (as Tabish pointed out), *C. subumbellata* is an accepted name,
> with no synonyms
> ,,,http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=B5D106882C74...
>
> Dear friends and Satish ji, please resolve this query.
>
> Regards.
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