Rubiaceae Week :: Mussaenda glabrata in Belgaum and Murudeshwar

Dinesh Valke

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Feb 5, 2012, 10:08:41 PM2/5/12

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Mussaenda glabrata (Hook.f.) Hutch. ex Gamble

mew-say-EN-duh -- Latinized form of Sinhalese vernacular name mussenda
er-ith-roh-FIL-uh -- red-leaved

May 14, 2007 ... at Murudeshwar, Karnataka

commonly known as: mussaenda • Bengali: sada patta • Hindi: bedina • Konkani: मिठाइ फुल mithai phool • Manipuri: hanu-rei • Sinhalese: mussenda • Tamil: வெள்ளையிலை vellaiyilai

Native to: tropical Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands

References: Flowers of India • Wikipedia • Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

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May 14, 2007 ... at Murudeshwar, Karnataka
May 29, 2011 ... off SH 34 near Kumbharwadi, Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka

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Dinesh

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Gurcharan Singh

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Feb 5, 2012, 10:55:28 PM2/5/12

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Thanks for Another Mussaenda Dinesh ji

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Raghu

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Feb 7, 2012, 12:52:16 PM2/7/12

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Hedge-turner!... Beautiful all the way!!
I always like the contrasts it makes. Here it is white large bracts &
the little red flower

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Raghu

Balkar Singh

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Feb 7, 2012, 1:02:38 PM2/7/12

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Gorgeous Shot Dinesh Ji

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Dinesh Valke

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Feb 8, 2012, 7:35:00 AM2/8/12

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Many thanks Gurcharan ji, Raghu ji, Balkar ji, and everyone for appreciating my uploads.
I am finding myself short of time, therefore please bear my irregular (rather poor) activity at eFI; hoping to get time by end of this month or latest by March-mid.

Want to point out my error in above post ... many thanks to Sandhya (Sasidharan) ji for pointing it out.
Have inadvertently put pronunciation and meaning of erythrophylla instead of glabrata.

Putting now the pronunciation and meaning of glabrata:
GLAB-rah-tuh -- somewhat smooth

I refer Dave's Botanary for finding pronunciation and meaning of the binomials.
Other good references are found at Calflora:
• http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/pronunciation.html
• http://www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/pronunciationguide.html
• http://www.calflora.net/southafrica/plantnames.html

Regards.
Dinesh

Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy

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Feb 8, 2012, 8:48:41 AM2/8/12

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Beautiful set of pictures .

BRS

on, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Prashant Awale

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Feb 12, 2012, 11:07:52 AM2/12/12

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Clear pics.
Regards
Prashant

J.M. Garg

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Nov 3, 2021, 6:12:41 AM11/3/21

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This may be Mussaenda frondosa as per discussions and keys at Amboli, MH :: Mussaenda for ID :: ARK2021-110

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With regards,
J.M.Garg

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Dinesh Valke

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Nov 3, 2021, 7:21:43 AM11/3/21

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Thanks Garg ji and Viplay ji.

In my plant the inflorescence looks clearly hairy, thus revising it to Mussaenda frondosa, shortly.