Thanks Bhagyashri ji and Dinesh ji. I agree with you Dinesh ji, our plants look different from each other. Thanks for bringing this discussion again, and sorry for the confusion. On closer look, your plant has flowers also on "leafy, racemelike, axillary shoots" ( http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200013758), which I mistook for a branched inflorescence. So it is perhaps Sida cordata as earlier identified by you. My plant seems to be a form of S. mysorensis with solitary flowers. I have seen also the other form with 'branched' inflorescence, but both the plants have glandular hairs. Please do the needful, and let us hear from others, too.
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many thanks Vijayasankar ji. Now that you have shown this plant, it become > clear to me that the one at > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/xUcJzKelIZE/discussionposted > by me during Malvaceae week is surely not > *S. mysorensis* (which you pointed out - on basis of branched > inflorescence) ... Not aware of varieties OR sub-species of *S. cordata*OR > some other similar species of > *Sida*, which may have this feature of branched inflorescence. > > Many many thanks once again Vijayasankar ji for showing *Sida mysorensis*. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Madhuri Raut <itii...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The 3rd pic is very beautiful and informative about the >> characteristics.Thanks for sharing >> Regards >> Bhagyashri >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Vijayasankar >> <vijay.botan...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> * >>> Sida mysorensis *(= *S. glutinosa *Roxb, non Cav.) from Bangalore >>> (images 1 & 2) and Tiruvannamalai (image # 3). >>> It differs from S. cordata by its erect habit with woody branches and >>> glandular hairs. Number of flowers vary from 1-5 per axil. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Vijayasankar Raman >>> National Center for Natural Products Research >>> University of Mississippi >>> >> >> >
