A bunch of pink flowers

[kiran srivastava]

Here is another bunch of pink flowers from Upper Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh. A small shrub. Request identification please?

 

Cheers,

Kiran Srivastava

Mumbai

[kiran srivastava]

Oops! Here are the photographs!

[Kenneth Greby]

Some sort of Melastomaceae, but not sure which one. Regards-- Ken Greby Broward County, Florida USA --- On Fri, 1/23/09, kiran srivastava <srivas...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Swapna Prabhu]

Beatiful pictures!

This is Oxyspora paniculata.

Regards,

Swapna.

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Dr. Swapna Prabhu
Systematic Botanist/ Taxonomist
Bombay Natural History Society
Hornbil House, Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg
Dr. Salim Ali Chawk
Mumbai - 400 001.
India.

[vinod kumar gupta]

Another shot of what I believe the same tree

 

Taken near roing(mishmi hills) on 30.10.8

 

Vinod

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Subject: [indiantreepix:7920] Re: A bunch of pink flowers

[satish phadke]

Thanks Kiran and Vinod for sharing these beautiful flowers from Family Melastomataceae.
Some features of the family which are observed in above pictures are:
Leaves:simple,opposite?,lacking stipules.
1-4 secondary veins on each side of mid vein originating at base and anastomosing apically. Tertiary veins numerous parallel.Inflorescence cymose.Flowers bisexual actinomorphic.Anthers introrse basifixed. Pistil and style 1.Stigma minute etc
Satish Phadke

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[J.M. Garg]

Links for Oxyspora paniculata (bristletips): http://www.hear.org/Pier/species/oxyspora_paniculata.htm (detailed desc.), http://flickr.com/photos/25530142@N08/2451706994/ (a pic.), http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2464945850_5323d34048_o.jpg (a pic.), http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1078/1464279028_4e042ac0db.jpg (a pic.).

2009/1/26 satish phadke <phadke...@gmail.com>

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