*Spiraea* *bella* Sims, Bot. Mag. 50: t. 2426. 1823. Shrubs deciduous, to 2 m tall. Branchlets yellow-brown to red-brown, slightly angled, subglabrous to pubescent; buds brown to red-brown, small, with several scales, glabrous. Petiole 2–5 mm; leaf blade abaxially gray-green, adaxially bright green, ovate, elliptic-ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 2–4 × 1–2 cm, abaxially pubescent or subglabrous on veins, adaxially glabrous, rarely puberulous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin sharply serrate or doubly serrate from below middle, apex acute. Corymbs terminal, compound, 2–4 × 1.5–2.5 cm, many flowered; rachis and pedicels pubescent; pedicels 5–8 mm; bracts elliptic-lanceolate, 3–5 mm, puberulous, apex acuminate. Flowers ± unisexual, 5–7 mm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, slightly pubescent abaxially. Sepals triangular-ovate, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm, reflexed in fruit, apex acute. Petals pinkish, rarely white, suborbicular, longer than sepals, glabrous, base shortly clawed. Stamens ca. 20, reduced and shorter than petals in female flowers, longer than petals in male flowers. Disk annular, 10-lobed. Carpels pubescent, reduced in male flowers. Follicles spreading, puberulous, sometimes only so on adaxial suture; styles spreading. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Aug–Sep.
Tanay ------------------------- On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Prashant awale <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Garg ji, > This one looks like *Spiraea sp.** (*Rosaceae Family). Could be *Spiraea > bella?? > *regards > Prashant > * > * > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:21 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id assistance pl. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> >> Date: 16 June 2010 17:49 >> Subject: For Id CM 160610 3 >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> Cc: Shekhar Marathe <[email protected]>, Dinesh Valke < >> [email protected]> >> >> >> Id request from Sh. Shekhar Marathe: >> "Pl help me to identify. They were photographed at Manimahesh, Chamba, >> H.P." >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg ([email protected]) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, >> Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg >> For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- >> Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix >> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg ([email protected]) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, >> Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg >> For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- >> Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix >> >> -- >> 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]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > -- > 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]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- 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.
