ANMAR20/27 Please identify this odd plant

Anurag Sharma

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Mar 12, 2015, 11:24:08 AM3/12/15

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I found this curious looking plant growing on a rock on the trek route to Mussoorie. I do not know if I am looking at a dried up flowering plant or something lower down the evolutionary line.

Date: November 2014
Place: Mussoorie
Habit: Herb

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Ushadi Micromini

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Mar 12, 2015, 1:10:49 PM3/12/15

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plant with the dried dead twigs and fruits are perhaps mustard

the red thing at the bottom reminds me of a reddish cerebriform fungus I have seen in wet northern california and oregon forests on deadfalls .. what trees i dont remember, in those days did not take pictures of what I thought was not that important to my life... back in human diseases lab studies ... it stayed with me... that similar looking lesions occur in human skin too !!! this is perhaps a

Ascocoryne sarcoides but I may be wrong

we need to contact Tanay Bose he is our fungi expert

hope he will tell us the true id

usha di

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Anurag Sharma

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Mar 12, 2015, 2:51:00 PM3/12/15

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Thank you ma'am.

Will wait for his view.

Anurag N. Sharma

BSc. (CBZ) 2nd Year

St. Josephs College

Bangalore

N Arun Kumar

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Mar 12, 2015, 11:27:35 PM3/12/15

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I do not think that is mustard, the arrangement of flowers (fruits) is much unlike mustard. I feel they belong to the same plant. Also, crushing the dry leaves (?) yielded a rich red color with a distinct smell.

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Arun Kumar N

Ushadi Micromini

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Mar 12, 2015, 11:33:44 PM3/12/15

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Arun

so you were there did you take more pictures?/

and the red color on your fingers when you crushed the dried leaves...

can we see them?

and did you save the crushed leaf to take to your lab and do some preliminary at least a paper chromatography?

usha di

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Ushadi Micromini

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Mar 13, 2015, 12:09:11 AM3/13/15

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so you surmised that this red mass is dried leaves?

its fungus i think even if its growing on a mass of dead leaves..

putting hands in such masses and sniffing such unknowns is a no no... the spres of the fungi can invade humans

when you go out on these expeditions take care not to do such things

to be a good scientist you 'll need to learn to be careful and to be thorough carry little envelopes and a forceps to save a sample if you you must do so... and label it right away or you'll forget .. in these days its easy just put down your digital pic number...

N Arun Kumar : Yes I was there but sorry to say that i didn't click any photos of the color or do any tests. I do have one photo of the plant though

be careful and have fun collecting data...

usha di

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:11 AM, N Arun Kumar <arunam...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes I was there but sorry to say that i didn't click any photos of the color or do any tests. I do have one photo of the plant though.

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Ushadi Micromini

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Mar 13, 2015, 2:53:36 AM3/13/15

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Tanay if and when you have time

please tell us what you think?

usha di

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:13 AM, N Arun Kumar <arunam...@gmail.com> wrote:

Noted Usha di. Will be careful and do those things you have mentioned . It could be a fungus on a dead leaf as you say..

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D.S Rawat

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Mar 14, 2015, 2:43:09 AM3/14/15

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Anurag
It may be some Gesneriaceae member; an angiosperm only.
At this stage difficult to ID without normal leaves and flowers.
DSRawat Pantnagar

Anurag Sharma

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Mar 14, 2015, 7:46:37 AM3/14/15

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Thank you very much Rawat sir. Let's leave it at a maybe Gesneriaceae then.

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Gurcharan Singh

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Oct 4, 2021, 11:52:52 AM10/4/21

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Forwarding for ID

Distributed as Gesneriaceae member- Mussoorie

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Gurcharan Singh

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Forwarding for ID

Distributed as Gesneriaceae member- Mussoorie

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Saroj Kasaju

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Oct 5, 2021, 1:56:09 AM10/5/21

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Didymocarpus pedicellatus R. Br. I guess!

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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