Yes I too think that Tanay ji got it right. Regards Giby
On 28 January 2012 09:51, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > *This Plant as suggested by Tanay should be Poulzolzia. pentandra. Upper > highly reduced, alternate bract-like leaves are quite distinctive for this > species.* > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Milind Sardesai <sardesa...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> This is *Pouzolzia. *Leaves are alternate. Only Rotala floribunda has >> alternate leaves. >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:42 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>> >>> Some earlier relevant feedback: >>> >>> “Can we have better view of habit and lower leaves. To me it looks like >>> some *species of Rotala*. >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh” >>> >>> >>> >>> “Sir i could find these three pics only” from Balkar ji. >>> >>> >>> >>> “It may be a species of Pouzolzia (Urticaceae) >>> Regards, >>> Giby” >>> >>> >>> "Any chance of* Pouzolzia pentandra (Roxb.) Benn.? >>> *Kindly see the description from Eflora of Pakistan >>> http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242424685 >>> Tanay" >>> >>> "I am in deep dilemma as I could learn that there can be stalked lowers >>> in Pouzolzia, especially male flowers. >>> Hence, again, I feel the pictures are of a *species of Pouzolzia only*. >>> Regards >>> Giby" >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Balkar Arya <balkara...@gmail.com> >>> Date: 15 July 2011 20:30 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:74161] Flora of panipat- a small herb for >>> id-15072011-01 >>> To: indiantreepix <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >>> >>> >>> Dear All >>> pls id this small about 1 ft to 1.5 ft high erect herb. Photo taken 20 >>> Sept 2010 from Lohari Panipat this was on the bank of a small water >>> Channel/canal >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> >>> Dr Balkar Singh >>> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology >>> Arya P G College, Panipat >>> Haryana-132103 >>> 09416262964 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >>> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >>> alphabetically & place-wise): >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >>> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >>> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian >>> Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >>> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1725 members >>> & 85,000 messages on 30/9/11) or Efloraofindia website: >>> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >>> of around 5500 species). >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> With warm regards >> >> >> Yours sincerely >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________________ >> Milind M. Sardesai, Ph.D. >> Reader in Botany >> Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, >> Aurangabad-431004 (M.S.) INDIA. >> Web : www.bamu.net >> >> ______________________________________________________________________________ >> Phone: 0240-2403303 | Fax: 0240-2403399, 243400 | Mobile: 08805075007 >> >> ______________________________________________________________________________ >> >> >> > > > -- GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Jakkur Post, Srirampura Bangalore- 560064 India Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby