ID request -150311-PKA1

[Prashant awale]

Dear Friends,

I had seen this small aquatic herb at a   stream near Karikale, North Karnataka. 

Date/Time: 17-01-2011 / 11:30AM
Location: Karikale, North Karnataka
Habitat: Wild
Plant Habit: Herb, (aquatic) around 25 to 30cm
Leaves around 10 - 12cm, undulate, petioles around 10 to 15cm.
Flowers not seen.

regards
Prashant

[Pankaj Kumar]

Looks like Ottelia alismoides to me.
Pankaj

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[tanay bose]

As said by Pankaj ji this is Ottelia alismoides

At least looks like one !! Do you have any photos of the 

flowers Pravin Ji

Tanay

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[Vijayasankar]

May be Lagenandra ovata.

 

Regards 

 

Vijayasankar Raman
National Center for Natural Products Research
University of Mississippi

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

“Looks like Ottelia alismoides to me.
Pankaj”

 

“As said by Pankaj ji this is Ottelia alismoides

At least looks like one !! Do you have any photos of the
flowers Pravin Ji

Tanay”

 

“May be Lagenandra ovata. 
Regards
Vijayasankar Raman”

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[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

“Looks like Ottelia alismoides to me.
Pankaj”

“As said by Pankaj ji this is Ottelia alismoides

At least looks like one !! Do you have any photos of the flowers Pravin Ji

Tanay”

“May be Lagenandra ovata.
Regards
Vijayasankar Raman”

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Date: 15 March 2011 21:46
Subject: [efloraofindia:65014] ID request -150311-PKA1
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For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1700 members & 79,000 messages on 31/8/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5500 species).

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[navendu page]

Lagenandra ovata

 

navendu

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[Giby Kuriakose]

Yes I agree with Navendu that it is Lagenandra ovata of Araceae family.

Regards,

Giby

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