Thanks Muthu. Actually, the leaves (and plant, incl. indumentum) in your picture look too soft to be A. hirtum. Why can't your plant be the 'other form' of A. indicum?
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Muthu Karthick <nmk....@gmail.com> wrote: > Illustrative picture sir. > I think the plant I posted at > https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/cd4633e77b95d9d/ecd6da9dbe81cff9?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=Abutilon+indicum#ecd6da9dbe81cff9 > > is similar to the one you saw (with reddish-brown @ center of corolla). > > But the plant I posted have no emarginate petals. > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Balkar Arya <balkara...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Nice CloseUp Vijayasankar Ji >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> hanks Vijayasankar ji for another nice plant >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> *Abutilon hirtum*. There was a pure population of few hundred >>>> individuals in a place near Tiruvannamalai. >>>> There is an another form with purple (or reddish brown) center in the >>>> corolla, like the one we see in A. indicum. But A. hirtum has hirsute >>>> indumentum, emarginate petals and fruits with 25 mericarps. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Vijayasankar Raman >>>> National Center for Natural Products Research >>>> University of Mississippi >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> Dr Balkar Singh >> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology >> Arya P G College, Panipat >> Haryana-132103 >> 09416262964 >> > > > > -- > Muthu Karthick, N > Care Earth Trust > #15, second main road, > Thillai ganga nagar, > Chennai - 600 061 > Mob: 0091 96268 33911 > www.careearthtrust.org > >
