Dear Sir, Thanks for the information and appreciation. Unfortunately the photographs are not very clear as it was taken from a mobile phone.
Regards, S. Balasubramanya Sharma S. Balasubramanya Sharma LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/s-balasubramanya-sharma/97/499/b10> Scribd <http://www.scribd.com/balasubramanya_sharm> Personal Website <https://sites.google.com/site/balasubramanyasharmas/> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:30 AM, M Swamy <[email protected]> wrote: > Please check the Biodiversity portal link provided : > http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31783. The details are also > reproduced below *. > > Two characters i.e. leaves velvety hairy on the underside and stigma > bifid do not tally with the description provided in the portal. > > *Trees, to 25 m, bark brownish to greyish-brown, longitudinally fissured, > blaze creamy-yellow, fibrous; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, > alternate; stipule large, coriaceous; petiole 10-25 mmlong, stout, > glabrous, lamina 6-18 x 3.5-9 cm, elliptic, oblong, elliptic-ovate, > elliptic-oblong or elliptic lanceolate, base round or subcordate, apex > obtuse or emarginate, margin entire,* glabrous*, coriaceous; lateral > nerves 12-16 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint. > Flowers bisexual, light pink, 10-13 mm long, in drooping axillary and > terminal panicles; pedicels to 5 mm; sepals 5; 3 lobes much enlarged than > the other 2, basally connate, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, accrescent, > imbricate; petals 5, oblong, densely villous without; stamens 15; filaments > to 1 mm; anthers 1.5 mm, linear; connectives appendaged, to 1.5 mm; ovary > superior, globose, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style to 4 mm; *stigma > 3-lobed*. Fruit a capsule, enclosed within accrescent sepals; wings > oblong, unequal, 4-7 cm, prominently nerved; seed solitary, obovoid 7 x 4 > mm. > Please check again. > I appreciate your way of presentation of the photographs , which will help > the experts to ID easily. I will also try. > Dr.Mahadeswara Swamy > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:47 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for validation please. >> >> efi page on Shorea roxburghii >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/d/dipterocarpaceae/shorea/shorea-roxburghii> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Balasubramanya Sharma <[email protected]> >> Date: 11 March 2015 at 19:09 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:217869] plant/mar15/6 >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Hello, >> >> I need validation for the photos taken. These are photos of Shorea >> talura, synonym of Shorea roxburghii at Doresanipalya Forest area, >> Bangalore; photos include small tree with leaves and individual flowers. >> The leaves are ovate-elliptic 5-15 cm in lenght, serrate & wavy with >> velvety hairs on the under side and prominent nerves. The flowers have 5 >> sepals, 5 petals and are twisted; stigma is bifid. >> >> Thanks, >> S. Balasubramanya Sharma >> >> -- >> 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'. >> > > -- 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.
