FOR VALIDATION :: Acalypha lanceolata :: Mumbai :: 27 AUG 08

[Dinesh Valke]

Mumbai   Date: August 27, 2008 ... Altitude: about 15 m (50 feet) asl

Acalypha lanceolata  Willd. Dear friends, please help in validating this Acalypha to be A. lanceolata ... Tapas ji, your thoughts please, if these only photos help.

Regards. Dinesh

[Nambiyath Balakrishnan]

Dear All

This appears to be Acalypha ciliata Forssk. However you may compare with the description of the species given in Flora of India, vol. 23: page 94,

for confirmation.

N. P. Balakrishnan

30-03-2019

[Dinesh Valke]

Thanks a lot Balakrishnan ji. Will try to check Flora of India.

Regards.

Dinesh

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Balakrishnan ji.

But Acalypha ciliata Forssk. looks much different as per images at

https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/e/euphorbiaceae/acalypha/acalypha-ciliata

May I request you to kindly have a relook pl.

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[dr.rakesh Singh]

Yes , A. lanceolata

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[Dinesh Valke]

Thank you very much Rakesh ji.

Regards.

Dinesh

[J.M. Garg]

On further checking in efi site and with inserted images by Rakesh ji, I fell it more close to images at Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg., as I feel involucrum margin is gland tipped.

I request Dinesh ji to pl. check with the original images and post them if possible.

[J.M. Garg]

We have to check with the description of the bracts as below (both from India Biodiversity Portal):

Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg.

All spikes axillary and sessile, short, up to 3 cm long, androgynous, finely pubescent. Male flowers ca 0.5 mm across, very few, clustered near the apex of spikes. Female flowers 2-2.5 mm across, 6-8 along the basal portion of the spike; bracts alternate, foliaceous, subcampanulate, funnel-shaped, folded, ca 5 mm across, shallowly toothed, bordered with long gland-tipped hairs along peripheral portion and margin, pilose, hairy or nearly glabrous, roughly coriaceous, gland-dotted, many-nerved.

Acalypha lanceolata Willd.

Spikes axillary, erect, sessile or peduncled and androgynous, 1.5-8 cm long, nearly glabrous or finely pubescent. Three-fourth of the spikes is occupied by female bracts and the male flowers are clustered only at the one-fourth upper portion. Bracts number about 18-20, campanulate to subcampanulate or cup- shaped, folded, 3-4 mm across, crenate-dentate, shallowly dentate or conspicuously 9 to 12-toothed with acute teeth along margins, pubescent, strongly parallel-veined, and gland-dotted.

Keeping this in mind, I will also think it to be A. lanceolata only.

[Dinesh Valke]

Thank you very much Garg ji.

Regards.

Dinesh