SK1492 09 Oct 2018

[Saroj Kasaju]

Dear Members,

Location:  Nagarkot

Date: 21 August 2018

Elevation:6500 ft.

Habit : Wild 

Which Galium ??

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[Saroj Kasaju]

Yes Dr. Chaurasia. I have mentioned it.

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 8:45 PM Dr.Balmukund Chaurasia <drbm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Galium sp

Dr. Balmukund Chaurasia

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[J.M. Garg]

Pl. check with species available in efi site at https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/r/rubiaceae/galium

[J.M. Garg]

Pl. check with species available in efi site at https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/r/rubiaceae/galium

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[Saroj Kasaju]

ID pending !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[Saroj Kasaju]

Galium acutum Edgew.

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Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

To me appears close to Galium aparine L. as per comparative images at Galium

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From: Saroj Kasaju <kasaj...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 20:18
Subject: SK1492 09 Oct 2018
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[Saroj Kasaju]

Galium acutum : much branched, mat-forming

Galium aparine : branched from base

Illustration (M. Rafiq)

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

Let us find analyse the two species to get better idea about the two:

Galium aparine L.:

Flora of Pakistan: Annual climbing herb, stem with reflexed hairs or prickles. Leaves 6-8 in a whorl, 5-40 x 4-6 mm, linear, narrowly obovate, oblong, oblanceolate-elliptic, usually narrower below the middle, mucronate or cuspidate, midrib and margin scabridulous, upper surface mostly hispid, sessile or shortly petioled. Inflorescence axillary, 3-flowered; peduncle stout, 1.5-2 cm long. Corolla white; lobes oblong, c. 1 mm long, pedicel straight, enlarged and up to 8 mm in fruit. Fruit 2-5 mm in diam., covered with dense hooked hairs or setae, mericarps sometimes separated and free.

Fl. Per.: March-July.

Distribution: Europe, North Africa, Asia minor, Siberia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

GBIF

Checklist of Nepal: 2700-3600 m; Europe, W. Asia, N. America, widely naturalised in Asia

Flora of China: Herbs, annual, procumbent or clambering. Stems 30-90 cm high, 4-angled, 1-4 mm in diam., branched from base, retrorsely aculeate along angles, glabrescent to pilose at nodes. Leaves at middle stem region in whorls of 6-10, subsessile; blade drying papery, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 10-60 × 3-10 mm, usually somewhat pilosulous or hispidulous adaxially, retrorsely aculeolate along midrib abaxially, base acute, margins flat to thinly revolute, retrorsely aculeolate, apex acute and shortly mucronate; vein 1. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, cymes 2- to several flowered; axes glabrous to aculeolate; bracts ± leaflike or none, 1-5 mm; peduncles 1-5 cm; pedicels 1-30 mm, finally elongating and sometimes curved directly under fruit. Ovary subglobose, 0.3-0.5 mm, with uncinate trichomes. Flowers hermaphroditic. Corolla yellowish green or white, rotate, 1.5-2 mm in diam.; lobes 4, triangular to ovate, acute. Mericarps subglobose to kidney-shaped, 2.5-5 mm, with a dense cover of uncinate trichomes 0.4-1.2 mm from swollen base. Fl. Mar-Jul, fr. Apr-Nov.

Forest margins, riversides, meadows, open fields, farmlands; near sea level to 2500 m. Evidently rare in China and possibly only introduced [originally in W Eurasia and the Mediterranean, but today nearly worldwide as an adventive].

Galium acutum Edgew.:

Flora of Pakistan: Prostrate to suberect perennial herb, stem 4-angled, ± glabrous, stem and branches very leafy. Leaves 6 in a whorl, minute, generally 5-8 x 1-3 mm, linear-lanceolate, aristate-acute-mucronate, glabrous, sessile, midrib conspicuous, margin often recurved. Inflorescence solitary axillary very rarely with 2 axillary flowers, peduncle very short, always shorter than flower, enlarged and straight in fruit. Corolla white, lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, c. 1 mm long. Stamens shorter than corolla-lobes. Fruit glabrous-granulate, c. 2 mm in diameter.

Fl. Per.: August-September

Distribution: Temperate Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim, India and Pakistan

FoP illustration  GBIF  GBIF specimen

Checklist of Nepal: 2000-4100 m; Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), S. Tibet

Flora of China: Herbs, perennial, procumbent, much branched, mat-forming. Stems up to 30 cm, 4(or 6)-angled, glabrous, smooth or sometimes with scattered (very rarely more dense) short and straight hairs. Leaves in whorls of up to 6, sessile; blade drying papery and blackish, linear-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 2-8.5 × 0.3-1.5 mm, glabrous and smooth, occasionally with straight hairs, base cuneate, margins flat to thinly revolute, very rarely antrorsely aculeolate, apex acute, ± contracted and mucronate; vein 1. Inflorescences with terminal and axillary cymes, 1- to few flowered; peduncles (1.5-)3-8(-10) mm; pedicels (0.1-)0.5-2(-3) mm, glabrous, smooth. Ovary ellipsoid-obovoid, ca. 0.5 mm, didymous, glabrous. Corolla white, pale greenish, or yellowish, rotate, 1.2-3.5 mm in diam., glabrous to puberulent, lobed for 2/3 or more; lobes 4, lanceolate-spatulate, inside (i.e., adaxially) papillose, shortly acuminate. Mericarps ellipsoid, ca. 1 × 0.4-0.6 mm, glabrous, smooth or granular-verruculose, often on elongating pedicels. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct.

Mountain rocks and slopes; 2000-4100 m. ?Sichuan, Xizang, ?Yunnan [India, Nepal, Pakistan].

[J.M. Garg]

After going through all these details, I will go for G. acutum