Anurag Ji, I request you to count the number of mericarps in Dinesh Ji's photograph https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/6257781510 in the thread https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/1E9XV3RBkZI/LdC_s8ZY-0oJ. I think the species in that thread is *A. indicum*.
I am sad that my knowledge is so little. Thank you Regards surajit On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you very much sir, I too had the doubt about the hair at the hilum. > If only there was a definitive key that bore absolutely no ambiguity. > > I will take this as Abutilon indicum. > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:59 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> One my request, concerning *Abutilon* in another thread >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/TRSEpDxNHCA/7XzMvXm-4B4J>, >> has not been addressed yet, leave aside met, yet I have received this mail, >> perhaps to express my view on it, view of a minnow, Huh! >> >> I agree with Dinesh Ji's view. I do not think it is or the one in >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/wzOrPt8dSyA/1h3CqyUe0xUJ is >> *Abutilon pannosum*. >> >> I also do not think this is *Abutilon hirtum*. >> >> Except the hairs at hilum, which I fail to explain for want of >> literature, I think it is probably *Abutilon indicum* G. Don, where number >> of carpels can be 20 or more >> <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/731298#page/224/mode/1up>. Yes, I >> read that FoP records, in *A. hirtum*, seed with minute shinning >> stellate hairs, more so at hilum. At the same time FoC records seeds in *A. >> indicum* are sparsely stellate. >> >> Thank you >> Regards >> surajit >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 5:57 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>> >>> Some earlier relevant feedback: >>> >>> Anurag, this will not be A. pannosum, and not A.hirtum too. >>> The links you provided yesterday were helpful to know about pannosum & >>> hirtum. >>> Putting them here for quick reference: >>> *Abutilon hirtum*: herbarium >>> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/herb/Abutilon%20hirtum/P1010874.JPG> >>> | description >>> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/pdf/Abutilon%20hirtum/245.pdf.jpg> >>> | picture >>> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/field/Abutilon%20hirtum/Picture%20076.jpg> >>> *Abutilon pannosum*: herbarium >>> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/herb/Abutilon%20pannosum/P1010873.JPG> >>> | description >>> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/pdf/Abutilon%20pannosum/246.pdf.jpg> >>> To me your posted plant is *A. indicum*. >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> The number of mericarps (25+) and their acute tips, and emarginate >>> petals are pointing to *Abutilon hirtum*. The indumentum is supposed to >>> have viscid hairs, please check. >>> Vijay >>> Thank you sir. >>> Here is a close up of the stem. Would you say there are viscid hair or >>> only dense simple hair? >>> Anurag N. Sharma >>> Thanks Anurag, it looks like viscid but I cannot tell for sure from >>> the picture. When viscid glandular hairs present, it will be 'sticky' to >>> touch. >>> Vijay >>> It was clicked a long time back and the stem close up is something I >>> failed to click at the time! >>> If not A. hirtum, what else could it be sir? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> Anurag N. Sharma >>> >>> nice pictures esp number 8 >>> that makes it seem that it may have been sticky... >>> like some fruits of some basil do and some plectranthus do... that >>> slight dewy smallest "droplets" and they will also collect dirt.. >>> >>> usha di >>> >>> Most likely Abutilon indicum.- from Chauhan ji >>> >>> efi pages on Abutilon indicum >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/abutilon/abutilon-indicum> >>> & >>> Abutilon hirtum >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/abutilon/abutilon-hirtum> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> >>> Date: 27 February 2015 at 00:16 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:216971] ANFEB39 Abutilon pannosum (please >>> validate) >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> Family: Malvaceae >>> Date: November 2014 >>> Place: Bangalore Rural >>> Reference: >>> http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/pdf/Abutilon%20pannosum/246.pdf.jpg >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J.M.Garg >>> >>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >>> The whole world uses my Image Resource >>> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >>> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >>> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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 >>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >>> world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or >>> Efloraofindia >>> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >>> database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of >>> Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >>> >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >> >> > > > -- > Anurag N. Sharma > BSc. (CBZ) 2nd Year > St. Josephs College > Bangalore > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
