A reply: "Silly me! I thought the two Boses were both the same person all these years! I had just thought he was a man of exceedingly varied talents and interests! I stand corrected - and thanks! It was easier just to call it the Indian Botanic Garden - maybe in 10 years it will become Mamata's garden! Same renaming goes on in modern Britain too sometimes - just as long as we never get any "Blair Streets", I hope!! Yes, L. polystachyum occurs in Manipur, too - though rare there, I didn't know it got into Assam, perhaps near to Manipur side? It is indeed a remarkable species with its deeply lobed "pinnules" - I have seen it in the field only in Thailand and Myanmar. Can one cultivate it? - it would look splendid in any garden. Presumably the two further species in Assam (and West Bengal plains) are L. microphyllum, common in the wet areas, with small, shorter, cordate-based segments, and L. salicifolium - the latter rather near flexuosum, but without the long basal lobes in most pinnae, and a having consistently swollen junctions at the segment bases where the ultimate segments absciss and fall off in old fronds, leaving only the branched leaflet-stalks. L. salicifolium is often overlooked, but is a perfectly distinct species. L. altum is another species in the area, with toothed and long segments, but I find it hard to separate from L. longifolium - if, indeed it is a separate species. Dixit & Panigrahi's account of the genus was generally pretty good, though they mistakenly reported L. mearnsii - then Holttum's account for Flora Malesiana is very helpful. Best wishes and thanks, Chris F.-J."
On 1 November 2012 12:18, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > A reply: > "The plant is *Lygodium flexuosum*. But, the name of the garden refered > to by Dr CRFJ is perhaps not Subhas Chandra Bose Garden, it is Acharya > Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden (Sir, it is a mix up between > names of two famous luminaries of India- both bengalee). > In our part (Barak Valley) three species of lygodium is found. In addition > to the two species mentioned by Dr CRFJ there is an unique species *Lygodium > polystachum* which is having a very restricted distribution. Oh! it is > such a beautiful fern! > Regards > Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharya, > *Associate Professor,* > *Department of Botany and Biotechnology, * > *Karimganj College, Karimganj, Assam"* > > On 1 November 2012 10:15, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A reply: >> "Hello, both L. japonicum and L. flexuosum grow at the Subash Chandra >> Boase Botanical Garden - I mean the I.B.G., Calcutta. But your photos are >> flexuosum, I reckon. >> Cheers, >> Chris." >> >> >> On 31 October 2012 16:37, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>> >>> Some earlier relevant feedback: >>> >>> *Lygodium palmatum* in N. America - >>> http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=40822&flora_id=1<http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=40822&flora_id=1Regards><http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=40822&flora_id=1Regards> >>> Regards >>> >>> <http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=40822&flora_id=1Regards> >>> surajit >>> >>> To me all these are same and most likely Lygodium flexuosum. >>> Pankaj >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: surajit koley <[email protected]> >>> Date: 25 October 2012 07:47 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:136155] Lygodium from Hooghly >>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> Sir, >>> >>> Raju Sir introduced me to a plant, *Lygodium*, in Shibpur Botanical >>> Garden (BSI, Howrah). Yesterday i found a similar looking fern under a >>> bamboo thicket. Darkness prevented me get good quality pics. >>> >>> Species : *Lygodium japonicum* (Thunb.) Sw. ? >>> similar species : *Lygodium flexuosum* (L.) Sw. >>> H & H : trailer under shady bamboo thicket >>> Date : 24/10/12, 9.25 a.m. >>> Place : Hooghly >>> sites : >>> >>> 1. http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/P/Schizaeaceae/Lygodium/ >>> 2. >>> >>> https://www.google.co.in/search?q=lygodium+flexuosum&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=2Z2IUJnBA42SiAez-oDoAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1517&bih=710 >>> 3. >>> >>> https://www.google.co.in/search?q=lygodium+japonicum&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=y6CIUJqEGqWRigep14DICw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1517&bih=710 >>> >>> >>> >>> Thank you & Regards, >>> >>> surajit >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 1980 members >>> & 1,33,000 messages on 30/9/12) or Efloraofindia website: >>> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >>> of more than 7500 species). >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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 1980 members & >> 1,33,000 messages on 30/9/12) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of more than 7500 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> > > > -- > 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 2000 members & > 1,37,000 messages on 31/10/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- 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 2000 members & 1,37,000 messages on 31/10/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --
