Flemingia chappar from Delhi

[Tabish]

Flemingia chappar

seen blooming in October at Sundar Nursery, Delhi

 Tabish

[Nidhan Singh]

I feel it should be Cissamoelos pariera only..

--

Regards,

Dr. Nidhan Singh

Assistant Professor
Department of Botany
I.B. (PG) College
Panipat-132103 Haryana
Ph.: 09416371227

[Ushadi Micromini]

i think Nidhan is on the right tract

usha di

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepi...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to indian...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--

Usha di
===========

[Ushadi Micromini]

Flemingia chappar synonym F. macrophylla 

FOC description 

Flemingia macrophylla (Willdenow) Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 66: 440. 1897.

大叶千斤拔 da ye qian jin ba

Crotalaria macrophylla Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 3: 982. 1802; Flemingia congesta Roxburgh ex W. T. Aiton; F. fer­ruginea Wallich ex Bentham; Maughania ferruginea (Wallich ex Bentham) H. L. Li; M. macrophylla (Willdenow) Kuntze.

Shrubs, erect, 0.8-2.5 m tall. Young branches densely ad­pressed silky villous. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate; stipules lan­ceolate, up to 2 cm, villous, with glandular striations, apex long acuminate, usually deciduous; petiole 3-6 cm, narrowly winged; petiolules 2-5 mm, densely hairy; leaflets papery to thinly pa­pery; terminal leaflet broadly lanceolate to elliptic, 8-15 × 4-7 cm, glabrous except for veins, abaxial surface with small dark brown sessile glands, basal veins 3, base broadly cuneate, apex acuminate; lateral leaflets smaller, oblique, base rounded at one side, cuneate on other. Racemes usually clustered at axil, 3-8 cm, with many clustered flowers; peduncle usually extremely short. Calyx campanulate, 6-8 mm, shortly very pale brown vil­lous; lobes linear-lanceolate, ca. 2 × as long as tube, lower one longest. Corolla purple, slightly longer than calyx; standard ob­long, shortly clawed, auriculate; wings narrowly elliptic, slen­derly clawed, one with auricle; keel oblong, long clawed, apex slightly curved. Ovary elliptic, with very pale brown hairs. Leg­ume elliptic, 10-16 × 7-9 mm, sparsely pubescent, apex with small acute beak. Seeds 1 or 2, glossy black, orbicular. Fl. Jun-Sep, fr. Oct-Dec. 2n = 22.

Disturbed meadows, roadsides, forest margins; 200-1800 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Tai­wan, Yunnan [Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam].

The glands on the fruit are separated after drying and are used as a purple or orange dye.

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242322688

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepi...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to indian...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--

Usha di
===========

[Ushadi Micromini]

  1. Cissampelos pareira Linnaeus var. hirsuta (BuchananHamilton ex Candolle) Forman, Kew Bull. 22: 356. 1968. 锡生藤 xi sheng teng Cissampelos hirsuta Buchanan-Hamilton ex Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 535. 1817. Woody vines. Branches slender, striate, usually densely pubescent, rarely subglabrous. Petioles shorter than leaf blade, often densely pubescent; leaf blade cordate-rotund or rotund, 2– 5(–12) cm long and wide, papery, abaxially densely pubescent, adaxially sparsely pubescent, base often cordate, sometimes subtruncate, rarely slightly rounded, apex often emarginate, with a mucronate acumen, palmately 5–7-veined, slightly prominent abaxially. Male inflorescences axillary, solitary or few fascicled, corymbose cymes, pubescent. Male flowers: sepals 1.2–1.5 mm, pilose outside; corolla cupuliform; synandrium ca. 0.7 mm. Female inflorescences thyrsoid, narrow, up to 18 cm, usually less than 10 cm; bracts foliaceous and suborbicular, overlapping along rachis, densely pubescent. Female flowers: sepals broadly obovate, ca. 1.5 mm; petals minute, ca. 0.7 mm. Drupes pubescent; endocarp broadly obovate, 3–5 mm, abaxially bearing 2 rows of transverse ridges on both surfaces of rib; condyle bordered by a horseshoe-shaped ridge. Forests. NW Guangxi, SW Guizhou, S Yunnan [pantropical]. Cissampelos pareira var. pareira, with glabrous leaves, was described from the West Indies and seems to be restricted to that region,  

from FOC 

http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF07/Cissampelos.pdf

===

and in eflora pakistan also has an illustration

All Floras      Advanced Search

Page 3 Login | eFloras Home | Help

Type: Habitat in Napaulia, Buchnan-Hamilton. Distribution: India and Pakistan. The type variety pareira, appears to be confined to America and has more cordate and less hairy leaves with somewhat shorter petioles than our variety. The plant is very common in hed Pakistan | Family List | Menispermaceae  | Cissampelos  Cissampelos pareira Linn., Sp. Pl. 1031. 1753. sensu stricto var. hirsuta (DC.) Forman in Kew Bull. 22:356.1968. Vern.: “Katori”. Cissampelos pareira Illustration Credit: M.Y. Saleem  Cissampelos hirsuta DC. Cissampelos pareira* sensu Hook. f. & Thoms. A slender tomentose climber. Leaves peltate, 2.5-12 cm long, 2.5-11.5 cm broad, triangularly broad-ovate, or orbicular, obtuse, mucronate, base cordate or truncate, ± tomentose on both sides, ultimately becoming glabrous above and glaucous below; petiole pubescent. Flowers minute, pedicels filiform. Male flowers in pedunculate branched cymes, clustered in the axil of a small leaf; sepals 4, obovate-oblong, hairy outside; petals 4, united to form a 4-toothed cup, hairy outside; stamens 4, filaments united, column short, anthers connate, encircling the top of the column. Female flowers clustered in the axils of orbicular, hoary imbricate bracts, on 5-10 cm long racemes; sepal 1, ovate-oblong, pubescent outside; petal 1, obtriangular subreniform; carpel 1, densely hairy; style shortly 3-fid. Drupe 4-6 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, subglobose, compressed, hairy-pubescent, red when fresh, black when dry, endocarp transversely ribbed, tuberculate. Seeds horseshoe-shaped. Fl.Per.: March-October. Fl.Per.: March-October. Type: Habitat in Napaulia, Buchnan-Hamilton. Distribution: India and Pakistan. The type variety pareira, appears to be confined to America and has more cordate and less hairy leaves with somewhat shorter petioles than our variety. The plant is very common in hedges at the foothills and up to c. 2300 m. It is a source of alkaloids like Seeprine, Bebeerine and Cissampeline. The leaves and roots are used as a cure for dyspepsia, diarrhoea, dropsy and in snake-bite. The stem yields a strong fibre. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200008434 go to this url page and you can enlarge the bw drawing to a4 paper, almost

--

Usha di
===========

[Ushadi Micromini]

dear all 

i just sent in the descriptions from efloras of harvard univ projects

for keeping in our website

usha di

[Tabish]

Thank you all for the response. Nidhan may be right, but let me point out the reason for my conclusion. Firstly, Flemingia macrophylla and Flemingia chappar Benth.  are different species, acording to Catalog of Life. And according to FOC:

1. Flemingia chappar Buchanan-Hamilton ex Bentham in Miquel, Pl. Jungh. 244. 1852.

墨江千斤拔 mo jiang qian jin ba

Maughania chappar (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Bentham) Kuntze.

Shrubs, erect, ca. 1 m tall. Branchlets slender, densely brown villous. Leaves simple; stipules narrowly ovate, ca. 2 mm, deciduous; petiole ca. 1.5 cm, densely deciduous brown villous; leaf blade orbicular-cordate, 4-4.5 cm, papery or thinly leathery, glabrous or sparsely pubescent

Secondly, I could not get a good close shot of the flowers, and from my fuzzy pictures they appeared pea-shaped, so I looked for Flemingia species.

Thirdly, the leaves don't look prominently peltate. I am attaching a picture to show that.

Maybe I will go and have a shot at the flowers again.

However, the plant did look like a climber, which was puzzling to me.

   Tabish

---------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------
www.flowersofindia.net
The waterhole of flower lovers

[D.S Rawat]

Flemingia chappar is an erect shrub. We have one image of it in eFI photographed in Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand.

I dont see images here and in eFI as similar.

DSRawat Pantnagar

[Tabish]

Nidhan and Usha,

  You were right! It is Cissampelos pareira only. I went today and photographed the flowers. I am attaching a pic.

   Cheers!

   Tabish

-------------------------------------------
www.flowersofindia.net
The waterhole of flower lovers

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group.
To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/IrLYM3Jv74E/unsubscribe.
To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to indiantreepi...@googlegroups.com.

[Ushadi Micromini]

Tabish

thats good

am glad it was where you could get to it again

hope you took many pictures

secondly , do you ever take pics of the backside of the leaves?

usha di

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepi...@googlegroups.com.

To post to this group, send email to indian...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--

Usha di
===========

[Tabish]

Yes, I do click the back of the leaves, unless I forget to do it. Here is the one for this plant.

   Tabish

-------------------------------------------
www.flowersofindia.net
The waterhole of flower lovers