Great Prashant, Now you can find flowers on demand! ;-) So, this flower agrees with the description of Cardamine subumbellata in having 6 stamens. The description of the fruit also agrees well. I have no doubt about this plant being Cardamine subumbellata. Cheers! - Tabish
On Jul 17, 8:55 pm, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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... > >> b) Hooker's flora ... description attached ... online at > >>http://www.archive.org/stream/floraofbritishin01hook#page/138/mode/2u... > > >> 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=B5D106882C74... > > >> Dear friends and Satish ji, please resolve this query. > > >> Regards.
