FOR NON BOTANISTS:
INCLUDING MYSELF:
Peduncle has different meaning(s) in medicine...
so had to do some reading:
the nuances are different in Botany:
this is what I learnt today: RE-LEARNT: since after 1962/3... ha ha..
A Pedicle, Pedicel, and Peduncle are the same thing : A stalk...
and leaf stalk is different named....
A pedicle is what we use mostly in medicine: stalk or a long base of
a tumor, benign or malignant....
A leaf stalk is called : A petiole
A stalk of a flower cluster is called: Peduncle
A stalk of a single flower (when it grows independently, not part of a
cluster) is called : Peduncle
A stalk of an individual flower in a cluster or an inflorescence is
called : Pedicel
A stalk of a moss capsule is also called: Pedicel:
Source: based this on a few dictionaries ...
An extensively illustrated Taxonomic dictionary for botany would be
very handy...
don't have one in my library.. could you please suggest one?
thanks for the lesson.... Everybody....
usha di
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On Oct 21, 9:47 pm, Gurcharan Singh <
singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To me leaf shape, colour, and very short pedicel of second photograph can't
> be ignored. The other two have slender long pedicel of S. cordata.
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> --
> Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> Retired Associate Professor
> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Vijayasankar <
vijay.botan...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > To me all three pictures look like Sida cordata, as suggested by Neil ji.
> > Pl see this link for S. cordifolia
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sida_cordifolia_%28Bala%29_in_Hyder...
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> > Regards
>
> > Vijayasankar Raman
> > National Center for Natural Products Research
> > University of Mississippi
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> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Gurcharan Singh <
singh...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> >> The first photograph (*DSCN0755a.jpg) *and photograph uploaded
> >> subsequently (*DSCN0757a.jpg) *belong to Sida cordata (syn: S.
> >> veronicifolia)
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> >> Second photograph (*DSCN0769aa.jpg) Sida cordifolia*
> >> *
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> >> --
> >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> >> Retired Associate Professor
> >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
> >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
> >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
> >>
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
>
> >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Giby Kuriakose <
giby.kuriak...@gmail.com
> >> > wrote:
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> >>> Erect herb, leaves cordate and hairy (stem too), *pedicel is shorter
> >>> than peduncle*: *Sida cordifolia*
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> >>> Trailing herb, leaves faintly hairy or even sometimes glabrous *pedicel
> >>> is as long as or longer than peduncle*: *Sida cordata*
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> >>> My guess, based on the pedicel length, is that this plant is *S.
> >>> cordifolia *of Malvaceae family
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> >>> Regards,
> >>> Giby
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> >>> On 21 October 2011 18:55, Neil Soares <
drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >>>> Hi Mohina,
> >>>> Just checked your photographs. This is also Sida cordata.
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Neil.
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> >>>> --- On *Fri, 10/21/11, Mohina Macker <
mohinamac...@gmail.com>* wrote: