Vijayasankar ji Not only me, but Tanay also who went one step ahead. Any way thanks for correcting our blunder.
-- 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, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:16 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir Ji & Raghu Ji, > I am adding the description of the plant from Eflora of China , hope this > will satisfy and support the ID of the plant as *Solanum lasiocarpum* > > *Solanum lasiocarpum* Dunal, Hist. Nat. Solanum. 222. 1813. > > > Herbs or subshrubs, erect or spreading, 1-1.5 m tall, armed, densely > pubescent throughout with pale yellow, many-celled stellate hairs. Stems and > branches stout, with flat, erect or slightly recurved prickles 1-8 mm. > Petiole 3-8 cm, often with stalked, stellate hairs and erect prickles; leaf > blade ovate, 10-20 × 8-18 cm, pubescent as on stems, denser abaxially, > prickly along veins on both surfaces, base truncate or subhastate, margin > 5-11-sinuate lobed, apex acute. Inflorescences extra-axillary, several > flowered, scorpioid-racemose, 1.2-2 cm; peduncle ca. 3 mm. Flowers > andromonoecious. Pedicel ca. 1 cm. Calyx lobes ovate, 8-10 mm. Corolla > white, subrotate, 1-1.2 × 2 cm. Filaments very short; anthers lanceolate, > acuminate, 7-8 mm. Style ca. 9 mm, glabrous. Fruiting pedicel erect, 1-1.5 > cm. Fruiting calyx somewhat enlarged, reflexed. Berry orange, globose, ca. 2 > cm in diam., densely stellate hirsute, tomentum persistent. Seeds brown, ca. > 2 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Oct, fr. Nov-Dec. > > > Regards > > Tanay > > > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
