Dear Mahta, Garg ji I confirmed this with Ms Jordaan, the authority on the genus Gymnosporia. This is definitely a good species but it should be listed as Gymnosporia puberula M.A.Lawson. It looks very different from Gymnosporia senegalensis. According to a number of studies it is now very clear there is no species of Maytenus in India or anywhere else but South America.
With best wishes, Robert Dr. Robert H. Archer Biodiversity Scientist National Herbarium; South African National Biodiversity Institute P. Bag X101, Pretoria 0001, South Africa Tel: +27 12 843 5043 Fax: +27 12 804 3211 E-mail: r.arc...@sanbi.org.za Website: www.sanbi.org<http://www.sanbi.org/> [cid:image001.jpg@01CD6409.B021A290] From: jmgarg1 [mailto:jmga...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:52 AM To: efloraofindia Cc: Robert H. Archer; dinesh.va...@gmail.com; pkaw...@gmail.com; le...@rediffmail.com; rajdeo.1...@gmail.com; satishparde...@gmail.com; drsmpha...@gmail.com; analawa...@gmail.com; sweed...@gmail.com; nudrat....@gmail.com; tchak...@gmail.com; drneilsoa...@yahoo.com; raanibha...@gmail.com; hemsan...@gmail.com; devarka...@gmail.com; sheetalbot...@gmail.com; kawale.pra...@gmail.com; sachin.s...@gmail.com; rlgha...@gmail.com; adittyadha...@yahoo.com; radhave...@gmail.com; Samir Mehta Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:121544] Maytenus puberula (M.A.Lawson) Loes. @ Prabalgad 01-07-2012 Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. Some earlier relevant feedback: "Dr Mahta, Why not Maytenus senegalensis ?" from Rajesh ji. "That's one of the things I considered Rajesh ji,but according to the keys Maytenus senegalensis is an 'armed' plant plus what really was decisive was the hair on the veins below, both FoM & FBI mention it, though the latter calls it puberulous and the former hispid. I will also like to point out that certain features [in this case - hair on the leaf under-surface] are missed in the field & appreciated only on post-processing. My field id was Maytenus sp. I am still open to correction provided a logical reason is given. Trust that answers your query. Regards, Samir Mehta" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samir Mehta <samirmeht...@gmail.com<mailto:samirmeht...@gmail.com>> Date: 8 July 2012 20:20 Subject: [efloraofindia:121544] Maytenus puberula (M.A.Lawson) Loes. @ Prabalgad 01-07-2012 To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com<mailto:indiantreepix@googlegroups.com>> 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. -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1900 members & 1,20,700 messages on 30/6/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. ________________________________ VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE ----BIODIVERSITY ADVISOR---- ON HTTP://BIODIVERSITYADVISOR.SANBI.ORG/ Think before you print. Please consider the environment before printing this email. NOTE: This e-mail message and any attachments are intended for the addressee only, and contain confidential information that may be legally privileged and/or the subject of copyright that is protected by law. Any unauthorised usage, disclosure, alteration or dissemination is prohibited. SANBI accepts no responsibility for loss, data corruption or mail that fails to reach its intended destination. Furthermore, SANBI cannot assure the integrity of this communication nor guarantee that it is free of errors, viruses, interception or interference. No liability, whether direct or indirect, is accepted by SANBI or the sender. Any view or opinion expressed in this message may not necessarily be that of SANBI or SANBI Management. SANBI reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communication. The disclaimer is located at http://www.sanbi.org/node/5672
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