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From: Tapas Chakrabarty <tchak...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2019, 18:11
Subject: Re: Terminalia Elliptica bracteoles
To: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com>


I find this single image highly insufficient for identification at species
level. Regrets.

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019, 16:09 J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks, Sharmila ji
>
> --
> With regards,
> J. M. Garg
>
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> From: Sharmila Punde <sharmilaflorain...@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed 30 Jan, 2019, 11:42 AM
> Subject: Terminalia Elliptica bracteoles
> To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com>, J.M. Garg <
> jmga...@gmail.com>
>
>
> Dear All,
>    As per link,
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/combretaceae/terminalia/terminalia-elliptica
> Please take a look at highlighted area of the paragraph from above link-
> "Deciduous trees, to 30 m high; bark 15-20 mm thick, surface grey-black,
> very rough, deeply vertically fissured, horizontally cracked, forming
> tessellated, thick flakes; blaze red. Leaves simple, opposite to
> subopposite, exstipulate; petiole 10-20 mm long, stout, grooved above,
> glabrous; lamina 13-20 x 5-13 cm, oblong, oblong-ovate, elliptic-oblong or
> elliptic-ovate; base oblique; apex acute, round, or obtuse, margin entire
> or crenulate, glabrous, coriaceous, midrib with 2 stalked glands near the
> base beneath; lateral nerves 10-20 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae
> scalariform, prominent. *Flowers bisexual, dull yellow, 2-3 mm across, in
> terminal and axillary paniculate spikes; peduncle tomentose; bracteoles 1-2
> mm long, linear or subulate;* calyx tube 1-2× 1-1.8 mm, angled, base
> pubescent, constricted above the ovary, lobes 5, ovate, yellow, densely
> villous inside; petals absent; stamens 10 in 2 rows; filaments 4-5 mm; disc
> 5-lobed, villous; ovary 2.5 mm long, inferior, densely villous, 1-celled;
> ovules 2 or 3, pendulous; style 4 mm, subulate; stigma small. Fruit a drupe
> 3.5 x 5.5 cm, longitudinally 5-winged, glabrous; wings equal, thin,
> pubescent, lines on the wings horizontal, apex round, coriaceous,
> reddish-brown; seed one.
> Flowering and fruiting: April-May"
>
> It mentions that the flowers has bracteoles with 1-2 mm long...
> Now-
> Please take a look at the picture attached. Please inform if inside the
> black circle, the line is pointing towards bracteole of T. Elliptica. Such
> kind of small structures are not seen in all pictures of  T. Elliptica
> flowers...
>
> Please note that the picture is* NOT *mine and downloaded from following
> link-
> It is allowed to use this picture for non-commercial purpose as per
> license aggrement.
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Terminalia_elliptica#/media/File:Terminalia_elliptica_-_Indian_Laurel_flowers_at_Nedumpoil_(24).jpg
>
> Please note that, for the clarity pupose, big size file is shared.
>
> Thanks
> Sharmila
>

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