Fantastic !! dear Prashant ... you managed to get the close-up of the flower, which was more important to ID than its beauty !!!! The photos are good too, needless to say.
Regards. On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Prashant awale <pkaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Dinesh, > Today i had been to Matheran hills where i came across this small herb. > Tried to capture few close ups. I could spot few in its fruiting stage. Do > have a look. > regards > Prashant > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Dear friends, >> ID provided by Satish Pardeshi ji over Google Buzz ... *Cardamine scutata >> *. >> Seems to me, *C. subumbellata** >> >> * >> Date/Time : July 11, 2010 at 8.07am IST >> Location Place : near Prabal Machi, Panvel, Maharashtra >> Altitude : about 204 m (above mean sea level) >> GPS : around 18.982835°N, 73.211909°E >> >> Habitat : wild, along forest trails >> Type : moist deciduous forest >> >> Plant >> Habit : herb >> Height : about 25 - 30 cm >> >> >> ** >> >> >> Satish ji, while gathering information from internet: >> 1) the plant posted by me looks more agreeable with C. subumbellata >> references: >> a) Cooke's flora ... description attached ... online at >> http://www.archive.org/stream/floraofpresidenc01cook#page/30/mode/2up/search/Cardamine >> b) Hooker's flora ... description attached ... online at >> http://www.archive.org/stream/floraofbritishin01hook#page/138/mode/2up/search/Cardamine >> >> 2) Status of *C. scutata* not very clear ... an article related to >> Cardamine species in American journal of Botany at >> http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/93/8/1206 >> a) at flickr looks different (although, not dependable) ... >> http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=Cardamine+scutata&m=text >> >> 3) at IPNI (as Tabish pointed out), *C. subumbellata* is an accepted >> name, with no synonyms ,,, >> http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=B5D106882C74D8FD00FAE703B2FEB46C?id=280681-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditSimplePlantNameSearch.do%3Bjsessionid%3DB5D106882C74D8FD00FAE703B2FEB46C%3Ffind_wholeName%3DCardamine%2Bsubumbellata%26output_format%3Dnormal >> >> >> Dear friends and Satish ji, please resolve this query. >> >> >> Regards. >> > >
