VOF Week: Rubiaceae sp??? at VoF

[Prashant Awale]

Dear Friends,

Seen this herb with very small flowers at VoF.

Regards
Prashant

[Nidhan Singh]

Can be Rubia manjith...nice pictures..

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Dr. Nidhan Singh
Department of Botany
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Panipat-132103 Haryana
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[Gurcharan Singh]

Nidhan ji

Not Rubia for two reasons

Rubia leaves are differentiated into a distinct petiole and broad lamina

Second and more important flowers of Rubia are pentamerous, here they are tetramerous

It is some species of Galium, I hope. Perhaps fruits can help or we find out a species with pink/purple flowers.

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[Prashant Awale]

Thanks Nidhan ji for the response. Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for giving the lead.

Regards

Prashant

[jmgarg1]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

Can be Rubia manjith...nice pictures.. -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh

Nidhan ji

Not Rubia for two reasons Rubia leaves are differentiated into a distinct petiole and broad lamina Second and more important flowers of Rubia are pentamerous, here they are tetramerous It is some species of Galium, I hope. Perhaps fruits can help or we find out a species with pink/purple flowers. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh

Prashant

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[jmgarg1]

A reply:

"Galium sp.

Krishan lal"

[jmgarg1]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation orotherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

Can be Rubia manjith...nice pictures.. -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh
Nidhan ji Not Rubia for two reasons Rubia leaves are differentiated into a distinct petiole and broad lamina Second and more important flowers of Rubia are pentamerous, here they are tetramerous It is some species of Galium, I hope. Perhaps fruits can help or we find out a species with pink/purple flowers. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh

"Galium sp. Krishan lal"

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From: Prashant Awale <pka...@gmail.com>
Date: 13 September 2012 22:52
Subject: [efloraofindia:130433] VOF Week: Rubiaceae sp??? at VoF
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Prashant

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[J.M. Garg]

To me appears close to Galium asperifolium var. asperifolium as per discussions herein and as per comparative images at Galium

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[J.M. Garg]

Looks different from Galium asperifolium Wall., as per images and details herein. 
I checked keys in Flora of Bhutan at Galium, but could not find a satisfactory match.

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Galium pusillosetosum H.Hara ??

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

Yes, possible as per only GBIF specimen. 

BSI Flora of India gives its distribution in Uttarakhand.

Experts may pl. give their views.

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Thank you Mr. Garg !

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

I think it does not match with the description in Flora of Bhutan as below:

5. G. pusillosetosum Hara
Slender perennial. Stems (5-)12-40cm, 1 caespitose, ascending from often procumbent base, 4-angled with narrow hyaline or whitish wings, glabrous or with scattered spreading non-hooked setiform hairs. Leaves in whorls of (4- )6, sessile or subsessile, membranous, thin, oblanceolate, 3.5-16 >< 0.8-4.2mm, cuspidate or mucronate (cusp/mucro 0.2-0.4mm, sometimes breaking off and leaf appearing obtuse), base attenuate; midvein with long, curved, spreading or 1 erect setiform hairs on both surfaces, lamina (incl. margin) otherwise glabrous; venation penninerved. Flowers in few-flowered terminal cymes on short opposite axillary branches (mostly equal, but lowest pair of branches often unequal); pedicels divaricate, 1-4mm, glabrous. Corolla reddish or purplish (rarely cream with red base), 2-2.5mm diam.; lobes ovate, shortly acuminate, scabrid apically within. Ovary with numerous dense, straight, subappressed, whitish non-hooked hairs. Mericarps subglobose, c 2mm diam., with patent rigid setae 0.5-0.7mm, shortly hooked at apex.
Bhutan: C - Thimphu district (Dotena). Rhododendron aeruginosum scrub, 2750 — 3660m. Late June—late July.

Otherwise known only from C Nepal.

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