Thanks, Tabish ji. On 8 July 2016 at 10:12, Tabish <tabi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am coming back to this post after several year, after gaining some > clarity on the Mussaenda species of the Himalayas. This indeed should be > *Mussaenda > macrophylla*, as Vijaysankar ji had originally identified. The roundish > petals and relatively large hairy sepals are characteristic features of > this species. *Mussaenda glabra* Vahl, on the other hand, is pretty much > a hairless plant (as the name itself suggests), and has very small sepals: > *Mussaenda glabra* Flower tube: 1.3-1.8 cm, Sepal size: 1-4 mm > *Mussaenda macrophylla * Flower tube: 2.-2.5 cm, Sepal size: 1.2-2 cm > Tabish > > On Friday, July 30, 2010 at 8:28:58 AM UTC+5:30, Vijayasankar wrote: >> >> *Mussaenda macrophylla*, the white bracts are attractive even from a >> distance in the forest. >> >> With regards >> >> Vijayasankar >> > -- > 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://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> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). 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. 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
