SK76AUG11-2016:ID

[Saroj Kasaju]

Dear Mr. Garg,

Sharing some pictures for identification. Pictures were shot at Mudkhu Nepal on 9 August 2016 at 5000 ft.

Thank you.

Saroj Kadsaju

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Saroj ji.

Appears to be some climber. Isn't it ?

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Yes! Could it be Smilax?

[Saroj Kasaju]

Tetrastigma leucostaphylum  ??

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

Tetrastigma leucostaphylum  ??- from Saroj ji

Pl. check with images at  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tetrastigma_leucostaphylum

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

Tetrastigma leucostaphylum  ??- from Saroj ji

Pl. check with images at  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tetrastigma_leucostaphylum

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[Giby Kuriakose]

Here the leaves are 5 pedate but in the link provided the leaves are trifoliate (although some are 5 pedate). Hence I request you to kindly check the same with any authorised flora.

Regards,

Giby

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Dear all,

Leaves option are tri-folilate or five-fioliate .

Your opinion please .

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

Common name: Indian Chestnut Vine • Malayalam: vallia-tsjori-valli • Tamil: pirantaikkoti • Telugu: kond draaksha 
Botanical name:  Tetrastigma leucostaphylum    Family: Vitaceae (Grape family)
Synonyms: Vitis leucostaphylum, Tetrastigma leucostaphylum, Cissus leucostaphyla

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Indian Chestnut Vine is a climber which is hairless except the inflorescence. Stems are sometimes boldly tuberculate. Leaves are usually 3-foliolate, sometimes pedately 5-foliolate; common petiole 2-5 inches long. Leaflets are softly leathery, oblong to elliptic-oblong, tapering to each end, sometimes obovate-oblong, always shortly caudate-acuminate and the edges with remote shallow teeth; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, spreading, slightly winged on the lower surface, length 4.5-6 inches, breadth 1.75-2.75 inches, petiolules 0.4-0.75 inches. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf axils, hairy, spreading, about 1.5 inches across, on peduncles shorter than themselves. Tendrils are rather short, forked. Flowers are 4-merous, the stigma 4-lobed. Fruit globose-ovoid, as large as a cherry, white when ripe, pulpy, 1- or 2-seeded; the seeds compressed, concave on one surface, rugulose. Indian Chestnut Vine is found in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Nepal, Sri Lanka and SE Asia.

https://www.google.com.np/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natureloveyou.sg%2FTetrastigma%2520leucostaphylum%2FDSC02770%2520(12).jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natureloveyou.sg%2FTetrastigma%2520leucostaphylum%2FMain.html&docid=IvPLrRVpQHm9TM&tbnid=2adOZkHlw_oU3M%3A&w=457&h=305&bih=429&biw=911&ved=0ahUKEwimkvm9pOnOAhULs48KHfqfC-wQxiAIAg&iact=c&ictx=1

https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj-vtHTpOnOAhUJSI8KHRbCCWQQjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natureloveyou.sg%2FTetrastigma%2520leucostaphylum%2FMain.html&bvm=bv.131286987,d.c2I&psig=AFQjCNEysg5lGOaxRsoquGpeyYwpXhblgA&ust=1472651460948748

[Saroj Kasaju]

ID pending please !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

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Date: 12-Aug-2016 4:44 PM
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[J.M. Garg]

Hi, Saroj ji, 

I think similar plant with about three four images with pinkish fruit posted by you was identified as some Tetrastigma species. Pl. check. 

[J.M. Garg]

Pl. check with images at Tetrastigma serrulatum

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J.M.Garg

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Dear all, 

I guess there is mix up of two sp. in the post.

First two images CSC_0782.JPG and DSC_0536.JPG

belongs to Rhamnus napalensis (Wall.) M. A. Lawson and the

remaining images belong to Tetrastigma serrulatum (Roxb.) Planch.

Need your validation please !

https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjH46SixNfYAhUFGpQKHZgGCL4QjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpicssr.com%2Ftags%2Frhamnusnapalensis&psig=AOvVaw0Y8yHydd9jv73Cs_-oDNBp&ust=1516021998328161

https://www.google.com.np/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwihqvf_xtfYAhVBs5QKHQvvBksQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fcsbg%2F15824238726&psig=AOvVaw0Y8yHydd9jv73Cs_-oDNBp&ust=1516021998328161

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

Ok

[Saroj Kasaju]

Image 4,5,6,7 and 8  Yua thomsonii (M.A.Lawson) C.L.Li ??

Syn : Cayratia thomsonii (M.A.Lawson) E.Reid & M.Chandler 

1. Yua thomsonii (M.A.Lawson) C.L.Li, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 12(1):5 (1990).

Vitis thomsonii M.A.Lawson Fl. Brit. India 1[3]:657 (1875).;Cayratia thomsonii (M.A.Lawson) Suess.; C. thomsonii(M.A.Lawson) Suess.; Parthenocissus thomsonii (M.A.Lawson) Planch.; Psedera thomsonii (M.A.Lawson) D.E.Stuntz

Climber. Stem terete, striate, glabrous. Tendrils 2–furcate, slender. Petioles 1.5–9 cm, petiolules 0.2–1.5 mm. Leaflets obovate to lanceolate, 2–10 × 1–5 cm, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, margin serrulate with minute mucronate teeth, glabrous above and below with scattered hooked hairs on the primary veins. Inflorescence 2–5 cm, peduncle 1–2.5 cm, glabrous, pedicel 1–4 mm. Calyx cupuliform, entire, glabrous. Petals oblong, 2–3 mm, glabrous Filaments to 2.5 mm; anthers elliptic, to 1.5 mm. Ovary adnate to the disc; disc inconspicuous, to 1 mm across, glabrous Style conical, slender, 0.5–0.6 mm. Fruit .globose to obovoid, 5–7 mm in diameter, glabrous, smooth, base attenuate. Seeds 2–4, obovoid, 4–6 × 3–4 mm, adaxial side with a central groove, abaxial side convex with an elliptic chalazal knot.

Fig. 1f-j

Distribution: E Himalaya, Assam-Burma and E Asia.

Altitudinal range: 200–2500 m.
Ecology: Mostly in montane forests.Flowering: April–July. Fruiting: July–October.

Fig. 1.

VITACEAE. Vitis heyneana: a, flowering branch; b, flower bud; c, petals; d, male flower after anthesis.Parthenocissus semicordata: e, tendril. Yua thomsonii: f. adaxial view of seed; g, abaxial view of seed; h, flower bud; i, flower with petals removed; j, flowering branch. Cayratia japonica: k, flowering branch; l, flower bud; m, flower with petals removed.

Location also very close to Kathkandu according to the map.

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

Looks different from Yua thomsonii as per

http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=94021&flora_id=2

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300920949_A_new_record_of_the_genus_Yua_Vitaceae_from_Vietnam

http://www.cfh.ac.cn/BioBook/SCList/1/678.html

http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=272934&SID=q3rpgdtjeqoluos5vq2vl487g2&mobile=1&code_category_taxon=9&size=1

https://botanyphoto.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/2011/11/parthenocissus-thomsonii/

See the leaf attachments.

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[J.M. Garg]

Leaf shape in Yua thomsonii is palmate and Pedate as in your post.

[J.M. Garg]

Leaves appears to be always 5 foliate. That takes me to T. serrulatum, if it is slender climber, as per Keys in Flora of Nepal

[Saroj Kasaju]

OK Mr. Garg! 

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[Saroj Kasaju]

Tetrastigma leucostaphylum (Dennst.) Alston ??

Wikimedia commons

Plant register

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

It may be Tetrastigma aplinianum (Collett & Hemsl.) Momiyama if it is a robust climber as per keys in Flora of Nepal, as it appears to have unbranched tendrils with lax inflorescence.

I also checked in Keys in Flora of Bhutan at Tetrastigma‎

Pl. also see Tetrastigma aplinianum (Collett & Hemsl.) Momiyama in GBIF and Tetrastigma leucostaphylum (Dennst.) Alston in GBIF.

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J.M.Garg

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[Saroj Kasaju]

I guess you are right Mr. Garg !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju