¿ Tiny Convolvulaceae member ?

[Dinesh Valke]

Hello friends,

 

Attached here are 2 photos of a tiny member of Convolvulaceae
For more views, link to flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=91314344@N00&q=tinyconvulvulaceae&m=tags

I have been wondering whether it really is the way it looks.
... could it be some sort of mutated growth due to poor habitat (content of nutrients like soil, moisture, &c)

Please enlighten with ID.
Thanks and regards.

[Dinesh Valke]

Dear friends, I forgot providing other information.

 

This small herb, most likely a creeper, I found at Vaghbil, Thane.

The environment is: creek-side scrub, the rocky earth, Found growing along side of waliking trail.

 

Regards.

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id pl.

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[Nayan Singh]

I think it is Ipomoea eriocarpa, but not very sure.
 

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Nayan ji for the feedback.

Links for Ipomoea eriocarpa: http://www.aluka.org/action/showCompilationPage?doi=10.5555/AL.AP.COMPILATION.PLANT-NAME-SPECIES.IPOMOEA.ERIOCARPA (description with Synonyms), http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=147670 (Details with pictures & specimen), http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=12&taxon_id=200018847 (little details with a specimen), http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v4/n3/fig_tab/nrg1023_F1.html (a picture), http://malherbologie.cirad.fr/Adventrop/especes/i/ipoer/dessin_ipoer.html (a drawing).

After going throgh these links particularly descriptions ("Leaf-blade ovate-cordate to linear-oblong, 2.5–8 cm. long, 0.8–4 cm. wide, usually subhastate at the base with rounded lobes, pilose to glabrescent"), I feel Nayan ji is right.

2009/1/8 Nayan Singh <ns_dun...@yahoo.co.in>

[Dinesh Valke]

Thank you very much, Nayan ji.

 

I went through:

1) http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200018847

2) http://research.sbs.arizona.edu/gs/cgi-bin/library?e=d-00000-00---off-0foc--00-1--0-10-0---0---0prompt-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-about---00-3-1-00-0-0-11-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=foc&cl=CL1.486.8&d=HASH01c6aa0bdf6d944aebca39d2.1.pr

and totally believe this plant to be Ipomoea eriocarpa.

 

That was a great help: Nayan ji & Garg ji; thanks very much for the ID.

[mangala borkar]

Hello It appears to be a Boraginaceae member.
borkar

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Subject: [indiantreepix:7263] Fwd: [indiantreepix:6838] ¿ Tiny Convolvulaceae member ?

[Dinesh Valke]

Mangala ji,

Please give some lead on genus, so that I can do some info-search.

My mind has already set on Ipomoea eriocarpa !!!

Regards.

[J.M. Garg]

Here is further reply from Neil ji:

"Hi,
 These were also identified by Dr.Almeida:
 Petalidium barleriodes.
                 Regards,
                   Neil Soares."

2009/1/10 Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com>

[Dinesh Valke]

... hmmm ... Petalidium barleriodes is not much discussed on internet / books.

I did find one instance via Google search at http://www.archive.org/stream/firmingersmanual029166mbp/firmingersmanual029166mbp_djvu.txt 

USE search command to find Petalidium.

"P. barleriodes. A very pretty small shrub with round smooth leaves ; bears in February and March a profusion of bunches of large, white, thimble-formed flowers. Propagated by cuttings in the rains "

 

Will be back to this thread, once I find more information / description of P. barleriodes

Regards.

[J.M. Garg]

Details furnished by Nayan ji in another thread:

 

"Following description is available for the identification of Petalidium barleroides in the Flora of Raipur, Durg & Rajnandgaon M.P. --                              
 
Family Acanthaceae
As per Dicotomos the characters for identification  is as --
 
Herbs or Shrubs
 
Calyx 5 lobed
 
Stamens 4, staminodes absent
 
Corolla lobes in bud is contorted
 
Flowers 10 - 20 mm across
 
Flowers in clusters or contracted cymes or spike; anther cells spurred at the base
 
Flowers 3.0 - 4.0 cm long, white ; bracteoles large, ovate             ---  Petalidium
 
The detail description for Petalidium barleriodes is given as below ----
 
Straggling shrubs, 0.6 - 1.5 m high with straw - coloured twigs, Leaves on the main stem petioled, broadly ovate, 5 - 10 cm long, crenate - serrate, Bracts absent; Bracteoles ovate - elliptic, Calyx glandular-hairy; Corolla narrowly campanulate, up to 35 mm long, yellowish-white, pale blue or white, Capsules ca 12 mm long."

2009/2/17 Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com>

[JM Garg]

Does not appear to be Petalidium barlerioides ?

[Dinesh Valke]

Thanks Garg ji for resurfacing this not-concluded  post.

I have no doubts of my posted plant being Ipomoea eriocarpa R. Br.

Also, the plant is healthy, and growing in its habitat.

Regards.

Dinesh

[Satish Phadke]

Yes Ipomoea eriocarpa

Dr Satish Phadke

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