[efloraofindia:144271] Re: Manipur identifications
Dear Sir, This appears to be Ilex sikkimensis. On Monday, January 14, 2013 12:06:01 AM UTC+5:30, NickPGP wrote: Hi I'm new on here and would very much appreciate some help with a few ident's for some species we encountered on a trip we made into Manipur recently. Let me know if the file size of the attached photos are too big. These first photos are of a 10m tree we found at 2730m asl on Khayangphung mountain, Ukhrul district, Manipur, right on the Burmese border. Many thanks Nick Macer, UK --
[efloraofindia:141034] Re: ICN (Melbourne Code) is online
Thank You Dr. Ritesh On Friday, December 21, 2012 5:59:01 AM UTC+5:30, Ritesh Kumar Choudhary wrote: Dear all, The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (Melbourne Code) is now published online. You can access it on the following link: http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php Regards, Ritesh. --
[efloraofindia:116746] Re: Rutaceae Week, follow-up, Names of Plants in India, 1st instalment
Dear Sir, Congratulations for taking up this work. With regards and best wishes M.K.Pathak On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:45:41 AM UTC+5:30, OZmic wrote: Dear all, It is hard to choose where to start for there is not really a beginning and no end in sight. Chinese people have a saying Every long journey starts with a tiny step. So here is first what has been the big revelation for me. Hidden behind some links in one of Dinesh's postings was what some of you had proposed / wished for and that I was also waiting for. The initial building of an amazing database called Names of Plants in India. It does not display the basic info for such a site so a review cannot yet be written about it. I have written one nevertheless that will appear online when I have all the details. It is however fully operational and can be used. I warmly invite you to consult it ... and yes it has got photos! The URL is https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/ . Now just a couple of entries calling for further feedback from you all. We all know that the name Mosambi is used for other taxa (plants). We will come back to it when we treat these species. I believe the following to be the original vernacular. *Citrus* × *sinensis *(L.) Osbeck 'Mosambi' BENGALI : মোসাম্বি (Mōsāmbi). ENGLISH : Mosambi orange, Mosambique orange. HINDI : मौसम्बी Mausambee, मोसम्बी Mōsambī , मोसाम्बी Mōsāmbī, मोज़ाम्बि Mōzāmbi KANNADA : ಮೊಸಂಬಿ ಹಣ್ಣು Mosambi hannu ? MARATHI : मोसंबी Mosambi. TAMIL : சாத்துக்குடி Cāttukkuṭi ? TELUGU : బత్తాయి పండు Battāyi paṇḍu. Fruit medium-large, slightly oblate to globose or broadly obovoid; areolar ring regularly shallow; moderately seedy. Color light yellow to pale orange at maturity. Rind medium-thick; surface moderately to roughly pebbled, and faintly striped with narrow, longitudinal grooves and ridges. Flesh color straw-yellow; somewhat firm, juicy; flavor insipid because of very low acidity. Early in maturity. This very distinctive variety is of unknown origin, but the name, of which there are numerous spellings, suggests that it was taken from Mozambique, East Africa, to India, presumably by the Portuguese. The brown color of the chalazal spot indicates that it does not belong to the sugar orange group, as some have assumed, but that it is a low acid orange, the acidity of which is further reduced by the Indian climate and the rough lemon rootstock on which it is grown. Mosambi is highly popular in central India and is probably the most important orange variety of that country. According to Gandhi (1956), it is grown principally in the Bombay Deccan where total plantings were reported to be about 20,000 acres.R. W. Hodgson in Chapter 4 of Horticultutal Varieties of Citrus. What we need now is validation of those names - spelling... and a photo or two, and some clarification. If this is the Batavian orange, Cattukkuti orange, Loose-jacket orange, Sylhet orange, can it be బత్తాయి Battāyi, బత్తాయి నరింమ్జాపండు (Battāyi narimmjāpaṇḍu) Battāyi nāriṃzapaṇḍu ? We know it is not sweet but is it bitter at all ? could it be called a mandarine ? *Citrus* × *sinensis *(L.) Osbeck 'Malta' ENGLISH : Malta orange. HINDI : माल्टा Malta (mālṭā). - correct spelling ? It may be difficult to find all these names in dictionaries but there is enough expertise in the group to work out what is correct and to validate it. Thanks
[efloraofindia:115635] Re: ID Request - SJ: 3May12
Hodgsonia macrocarpa syn. Hodgsonia heteroclita Hook.f. On Thursday, May 3, 2012 10:08:48 PM UTC+5:30, SushmitaJha wrote: I am posting after many months. Would much appreciate ID confirmation of this creeper flower seen in abundance in Digboi Oil fields where I had gone bird-watching in mid-April. Thank you. Sushmita Jha
[efloraofindia:111003] Re: Convolvulaceae week : Flower shapes
Dear Sir, Thanks for this informative post. Do you have similar link for the other floral parts and leaves. with best wishes and regards M.K.Pathak On Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:23:13 PM UTC+5:30, Satish Phadke wrote: From the posts received during the Convolvulaceae week I am really amazed to see the number of species and genera it contains. 5-6 years back when I started observing the flowers closely in pursuing my hobby I was aware of only Ipomoea as a genus and I never imagines that many *Ipomoea *flowers come from different plants and I used to neglect them. Now after several months it is heartening to say that I know many species now.(Credit goes to Efloraofindia too) The flower shapes of Convolvulaceae are described differently. Sometimes the meanings are difficult to understand. I tried to compile some of these. *Campanulate : ** * Bell-shaped. A flower with a wide tube and flared lobes (petal tips), typical of the Bellflower family (Campanulaceae). As in *Convolvulus*(This word is used for Genus *Volulopsis *in BSI Mah flora)* *Some Merremia members e.g.*M.gangetica* and *M.hederacea* *Funnelform : *As in *Argyreia *and *Ipomoea** * *Infundibuliform* : Funnel shaped(Funnel-shaped) (This word is used for *Cressa *and *Evolvulus*) A flower that widens gradually from the base, ending in an open or flared shape. *Trumpet-shaped* A flower that starts as a narrow tube, but widens into a flared mouth, where the petals often turn back. *Salverform* A flower with a long, thin tube, that widens suddenly into a flat-faced flower. *Hypocrateriform *:/ hypocraterimorphous 1. In *botany*, salver shaped: an epithet applied to a corolla consisting of a straight tube surmounted by a flat and spreading limb, as in the cowslip and phlox. http://theseedsite.co.uk/flowershapes.html *Subglobose*: Close to spherical; As in Cuscuta In Stictocardia and Ipomoea the Corolla is *Infundibuliform* or *Hypocrateriform * -- Dr Satish Phadke
[efloraofindia:110348] Re: Herbarium Sheets
Sir, Khadi Gram Udyog PUNE provides all the herbarium sheets, species covers and Genus covers to CAL. Authentic supplier. regards M.K.Pathak On Saturday, March 3, 2012 7:38:33 AM UTC+5:30, Balkar wrote: Dear All I shall be highly thankful if anyone can provide details of any vendor supplying standard size herbarium sheets. I have to purchase about 5000 sheets. Thanks -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
[efloraofindia:109062] Re: Prickly like Rosa
Please see if this Rubus splendidissimus Hara On Feb 21, 8:10 am, ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: MR KUMAR: Yes you are right I guess... but this is not the thread... for sake of keeping it complete may be you can copy paste your own /this comment in the thread started by Somnath it would be interesting and informative to all... for now and in future Usha di .. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:55 PM, N Arun Kumar arunameth...@gmail.comwrote: Ushadi ji Ive noticed that behavioral in butterflies many a times..on a particular plant- *Crotalaria retusa.. *I think they remove the epidermal layer with their feet and suck on the leaf juices. Especially Blue Tigers. = On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:47 PM, ushadi Micromini microminipho...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you... for the info... can you share the yellow berry , no rush, at your leisure... is ok ... Usha di On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Pudji Widodo pudjiuns...@gmail.comwrote: I 've got some other images with the yellow berries. Then I checked it in a book Mountain Plants of Java? (I forgot the tittle). And that's it. Regards, Pudji Widodo Fakultas Biologi Universitas Jenderal Soedirman PURWOKERTO 53122 INDONESIA -- Usha di === - -- Usha di === =
[efloraofindia:106182] Re: Dr. Ritesh Kumar Choudhary- 'Best International Researcher of KRIBB for the year 2011'
Congratulations Ritesh Keep it up M.K.Pathak On Feb 2, 5:52 pm, Satish Phadke drsmpha...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Ritesh ji. Scholars like you are making the country proud. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:06 PM, J.M. Garg jmga...@gmail.com wrote: Dear members, Dr. Ritesh Kumar Choudhary has been awarded as the 'Best International Researcher of KRIBB (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience Biotechnology) for the year 2011'. The award was conferred on him yesterday on the occasion of 'KRIBB's 27th Establishment Day Ceremony'. Sharing a Picasa link of the ceremony for your perusal. Hope you'll like them. Although he has already shared the photos with his Google plus and Facebook friends. https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/114018071478935378667/albums/57038... My congrats to him on this occasion. May he achieves many more such heights in future. -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) 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 1760 members 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/(with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata Common Birds of India'. -- Dr Satish Phadke
