Dear All Yes, the plant is correctly identified and described. A useful addition. N. P. Balakrishnan 28 Aug. 2016
On 28 August 2016 at 13:04, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Lalithamba ji, for a new addition to efi. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Lalithamba Avadhanam <alalitha...@gmail.com> > Date: 28 August 2016 at 12:47 > Subject: [efloraofindia:250298] Submission of Dimorphocalyx glabellus > To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > > > *Plant name: Dimorphocalyx glabellus* Thwaites, *Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 278. > 1861.* > > *Ver.name:* Pachhava (Tel.) > > *Family:* Euphorbiaceae > > *Description:* > > Evergreen trees, 3-7m tall. Bark reddish brown, deeply furrowed, spongy. > Leaves alternate; lamina 3-15 × 2-6cm, elliptic oblong, base rotund, > entire, apex subacute, coriaceous, glabrous. Plants dioecious, 0.5-1 cm > across, white; pistillate flowers solitary, male in few flowered axillary > cymes. Calyx 5 lobed, cup shaped in male flowers; oblong, obtuse, > accrescent in pistillate flowers. Corolla white, companulate, imbricate. > Stamens 10-20 in 2 rows, on a short column, filaments thick; anther cells > adnate to the thick connective, parallel, included. Capsule 3 valved, > hispid; fruiting calyx 0.7-1.5cm long, with a glandular pit near the tip. > Seeds ovoid. > > *Habitat & location:* Rare. Found in hilly areas. Photographed at Rapur > ghat. > > *Flowering period:* September-March. > > *Medicinal Uses:* The leaves are used in the treatment of dyspepsia and > rheumatism in Ayurveda. > > Thank you > > Regards > > A.Lalithamba > > -- > 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.
