Dr Mahta, Why not Maytenus senegalensis ? On 8 July 2012 20:20, Samir Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Fellow Group-Members, > > Got a chance to go to Prabalgad with a trekking group, had wanted to go > there for a long time, after seeing Prasant ji's posts from that area. As > was to be expected, it was more of a trek than a flower watching trip - and > a difficult one too. > > Spotted this large unarmed shrub just short of Prabal machi, about ? 1000 > ft asl, the lower surface of the leaf had hairs on the veins (cannot > remember whether they were hispid or puberulous); flower size was > approx.1cm. > > There seems to be some confusion in the taxonomic nomenclature (unresolved > in the plant list and not listed at ARS-GRIN and FoC or Fl Pakistan). > The id is based on Fl. Maharashtra 1:241 & 243, but here flowering season > is given as Dec-Jan, needs to be checked and FBI 1:619. > The shrub is not listed in Shrikant ji's Flowers of Sahyadri or Further > Flowers > of Sahyadri and no image of it was available for comparison in the group > database or on the net. > > Will appreciate if this post can be validated. > > > > > -- Regards Rajesh Sachdev http://project-matheran.webs.com https://www.facebook.com/leopardguy
