Mayurji, Am not sure but I could see some pubescence upon the spathe in the picture. Do *Commelina diffusa* have such hairs on spathe? in your description, it has a glabrous surface.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:57 PM, tanay bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> wrote: > The snap is really cool > and thanks for the description Mayur Ji > tanay > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Mayur Nandikar <mayurnandi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Nice caption........... >> >> *Commelina diffusa** *Burm. f., Fl. Ind. 13, t. 7, f. 2. 1768; Rolla Rao >> in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 25: 179. 1964; Panigrahi & Kammathy in J. >> Ind. Bot. Soc. 43: 299. 1964; Lakshminarsimhan in Sharma et al., Fl. >> Maharashtra (Monocot.) 151, 1996; Faden In: Dassanayake (ed.), Rev. Handb. >> Fl. Ceylon 14: 184. 2000. *Commelina nudiflora *sensu Hook. f., Fl. Brit. >> India 6: 369. 1892 non* *L. 1753; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay 3: 290. 1906. >> >> Perennial with diffusely spreading shoots rooting at the nodes, >> lacking a definite base; roots thin, fibrous. Leaves distichous, sheaths to >> 2 cm long, ciliate at the apex, lamina linear-lanceolate to >> lanceolate-elliptic, 1.5-9.5 x 0.4-1.8 cm, glabrous. Spathes on peduncles >> (0.7-) 1.3-2.4 cm long, solitary, 1.1-3.5 cm long, 0.4-0.8 cm high, apex >> acuminate, base cordate, not at all to slightly falcate, margins free, >> smooth to scabrous or ciliolate, surfaces glabrous; upper cincinnus usually >> 1-several-flowered; lower cincinnus several-flowered. Flowers bisexual >> (lower and occasionally upper cincinnus) and male (upper cincinnus), >> (9-)11.5-17 (-20) mm wide, sepals free; paired petals c. 8 mm wide, blue; >> medial petal smaller, concolorous; staminodes 2-3, anthrodes cruciform, >> yellow; anther of medial stamen with a violet connective. Capsules >> oblong-elliptic to quadrate, trilocular, 4.5-7 x 3-4 (-4.5) mm, dorsal >> locule 1-seeded, ventral locules (1-)2-seeded. Ventral locule seeds broadly >> ovate to transversely elliptic in outline, 1.7-2.8 x 1.3-1.8 mm , testa dark >> brown, doubly reticulate, usually white-farinose. >> >> *Flowering and fruiting:* October to July. >> >> *Distribution:* Pantropical and warm temperate. >> >> *Ecology:* Margins of pools, streams, rivers, ponds and marshes, >> sometimes growing in water; roadsides, open scrub, evergreen forest, forest >> edge, and weed in rice. >> >> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Narendra Joshi <narend...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Commelina Diffusa - Day Flower >>> >>> -- >>> With Regards, >>> Narendra Joshi >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar, >> Research Student, >> Department of Botany, >> Shivaji University, >> Kolhapur. >> > > > > -- > *Tanay Bose* > Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. > Department of Botany. > University of British Columbia . > 3529-6270 University Blvd. > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) > 604-822-2019 (Lab) > 604-822-6089 (Fax) > ta...@interchange.ubc.ca > *Webpages:* > http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html > http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ > > > -- *Manudev K Madhavan* Systematic & Floristic Lab, Department of Botany, Centre for Postgraduate Studies & Research St. Joseph's College, Devagiri Kozhikode- 673 008 Mob: 9496470738
