Hi, Affirmative. This is Sida retusa. [Don't go by the leaves at the top of the plant. Check the leaves lower down]. As Dr.Almeida explained to me when I posed the same questions to him - retusa means 'cut' - its as if someone has abruptly cut the leaves. Whereas in Sida rhombifolia, the leaves are rhomboid. With regards, Neil Soares.
--- On Tue, 9/4/12, surajit koley <[email protected]> wrote: From: surajit koley <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:128413] Sida rhombifolia L. (?) from Hooghly To: "Neil Soares" <[email protected]> Cc: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 12:07 AM Neil Sir, Though my flowers differ with your picture of S. rhombifolia at - https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/cWZmjt6gng0/discussion, i think my leaves differ with that of your images of S. retusa leaves at - https://groups.google.com/d/topic/wildflowerindia/Y7Lyh4_z5tg/discussion. Besides, the following websites informs S. retusa = S, rhombifolia L. or S. rhombifolia L. subsp. rhombifolia - http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33900 http://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Sida_rhombifolia.htm http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/ On the other hand The Plant List informs - Sida retusa L. is a synonym of Sida alnifolia var. alnifolia - http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-19601817 more synonyms of the above - http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-19603576 I am confused. Attaching one more photographs, a larger one, for your perusal. Regards, surajit On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Negative. This is Sida retusa. Please check these links for my photographs and our previous discussion on this : https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!search/Sida$20retusa$20Neil$20Soares/wildflowerindia/Y7Lyh4_z5tg/GuQwons9sIIJ https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!search/Sida$20retusa$20Neil$20Soares/indiantreepix/cWZmjt6gng0/oAjbrJq0bCUJ With regards, Neil Soares. --- On Mon, 9/3/12, surajit koley <[email protected]> wrote: From: surajit koley <[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:128413] Sida rhombifolia L. (?) from Hooghly To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, September 3, 2012, 10:54 PM Sir, I hope this is Sida rhombifolia L., the Bengali name of which has been stated as LAL-BERELA in the book, Plant Groups, by H. Mukherji. Species : Sida rhombifolia L. ? Habit & Habitat : wild herb, about 2 feet, found on roadside, pictures were taken from two individual plants at the same place Date : 01/09/12 & 03/09/12 Place : Kamarkundu (Hooghly) Thank you & Regards, surajit -- --
