Thank you very much Gurcharan ji and Garg ji for validation. Regards. Dinesh
On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 12:02 PM Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Based on above discussion and comparative images I think the upload by > Thingnum Girija as Synedrella nodiflora is actually Calyptocarpus vialis, > upload by Dinesh ji is alright. > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Mob: 9810359089 > https://sing96.wixsite.com/mysite-1 > > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 11:52 AM Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Here are characters I have uploaded on Facebook Groups last month >> >> Calyptocarpus vialis: prostrate perennial herb, rooting at nodes; leaves >> ovate, 2-4 cm long; heads usually solitary on up to 15 mm long peduncle; >> heads 6-7 mm long, achenes 3-4 mm long, oblanceolate, with two spreading >> awns in ray florets as well disc florets. >> Synedrella nodiflora: erect or ascending annual herb; leaves elliptic, >> 3-10cm long, heads usually 2-4 together, sessile or subsessile; heads more >> than 1 cm long; achenes dimorphic, those of disc florets like Calyptocarpus >> vialis but narrower, those of ray florets with triangular scales. >> >> I don't find any distinctly pedunculate head in Dinesh ji's upload, they >> may be subsessile. >> >> >> >> >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Mob: 9810359089 >> https://sing96.wixsite.com/mysite-1 >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 9:13 AM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In Dinesh ji's post at Synedrella nodiflora :: Yeoor Hills, part of >>> SGNP :: 29 DEC 19 >>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/N_TzTL0pfcs> , >>> one can see a few flowering heads on long peduncles. So the >>> following portion of the key has to go away: >>> "All heads in *Synedrella* are in sessile clusters, but in >>> *Calytocarpus* there are always a few on long peduncles bearing >>> solitary head, in addition to several sessile in cluster" >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>> From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >>> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 at 12:23 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:232195] Confusion between Calyptocarpus vialis >>> and Synedrella nodiflora solved (for me atleast)-GSSEP05/123 >>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> Confusion between Calyptocarpus vialis and Synedrella nodiflora solved >>> (for me atleast). >>> I was lucky to find both on same day in Bangalore and appreciate crucial >>> differences between two. >>> >>> Perhaps no two plants are as confused by most of us as these two. Many >>> differentiate the two by prominent three veins from base, but they occur in >>> both although thinner in Calyptocarpus. Heads of two look similar, >>> involucre bracts of Calyptocarpus are 4 in two whorls, In Synedrella they >>> range from 2-5 and may be in one or two whorls. Achenes are with two >>> diverging awns in Calyptocarpus, in Synedrella most florets (disc) have >>> similar 2-awned achenes although few (fertile ray) have achenes with scales >>> (which you are likely to miss. >>> Here are features which will never fail you >>> 1. Calyptocarpus has low growing, procumbent to ascendin, mat forming >>> habit often rooting at nodes, rarely rising more than 15 cm, Synedrella >>> tall erect habit up to 80 cm tall . >>> 2. Leaves the most crucial are not longer than 3 cm, pale green, >>> thinner, >>> faint 3 basal vein and broadly ovate. In contrast leaves of Synedrella >>> are longer than 3 cm, dark green in colour, more prominent basal veins and >>> ovate to elliptic in shape. >>> 3. All heads in Synedrella are in sessile clusters, but in Calytocarpus >>> there are always a few on long peduncles bearing solitary head, in addition >>> to several sessile in cluster. >>> Here are some photographs for illustration. >>> >>> >>> 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >>> -- >>> 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> >>> >>> 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- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or >>> Efloraofindia >>> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >>> database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than >>> 2,00,000 images are directly displayed on 30.8.19). >>> >>> 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). 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