Fabaceae-Faboideae (Papilionaceae) Week :: Aeschynomene indica at Vaghbil & Phirojshahnagar

[Dinesh Valke]

Aeschynomene indica L.

• es-kee-no-MEE-nee -- from Greek aeschyn (causing shame); refers to leaves closing up
  IN-dih-kuh or in-DEE-kuh -- of or from India

Sep 20, 2008 ... Vaghbil, Thane, Maharashtra

commonly known as: budda pea (in Australia), hard shola pith, Indian jointvetch, kat sola, trailing sesbania • Assamese: কুঁহিলা kuhila • Bengali: কাঠ শোলা kath shola • Hindi: सोला sola • Kannada: ಬೆಮ್ಡುಕಸ bemdukasa • Konkani: nalabi • Malayalam: neli-tali • Manipuri: chinggonglei • Marathi: kinomin, nalabi • Nepali: सोला sola • Oriya: surlo • Tamil: கோத்திரம் kottiram, நெட்டிவகை netti-vakkai, தக்கை takkai • Telugu: జీలుగబెండు jiluga bendu, తీగజీలుగ tiga jiluga

Distribution: naturalized in paleotropics & West Indies, exact native range obscure


some views:

• Sep 23, 2007 ... Phirojshahnagar, Mumbai
  
• Sep 20, 2008 ... Vaghbil, Thane, Maharashtra
  

Dear friends, embedded images attached for the benefit of those who are unable to view them among contents above.

Regards.
Dinesh

[Balkar Singh]

Beautiful Closeup and and Complete Set Dinesh Ji. Thanks for Sharing

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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
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[Satish Phadke]

Thanks Dinesh ji
One of the genus where the leaflets are many.
The pods description which differentiates from Smithia (IN the Key) is
Joints of pods folded in calyx: Smithia.
Joints of pods not above: Aeschynomene
Very difficult to check in pictures.
The plant does show some characters likeImparipinnate leaves with many unequal based leaflets. Flowers pale yellow' few in axillary racemes. Pods 6-10 jointed.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Dr Satish Phadke

[Dinesh Valke]

Satish ji,

Have attached a cropped photo of the plant sighted on Sep 20, 2008 ... Vaghbil, Thane, Maharashtra.

Perhaps you will be able to see the "joint of pods" and get to conclusion.

Regards.
Dinesh

[Satish Phadke]

Dinesh ji
I hope you have not misunderstood me
I am not doubting your ID at all.
Just checking and trying tomatch for the characters for my own study which may be useful to others. At the same time the thoughts remain on server to retrieve fast when similar plant is spotted.
Anyway thanks for the picture of the pod.
I will understand the difference correctly only when I would see the joints of pods folded in calyx in Smithia. Here it is clear that nothing is folded.

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Dr Satish Phadke

[Dinesh Valke]

No Satish ji. No misunderstanding you. That is out of scope.

Have attached another picture for two reasons:
1) to help you check joint of pods character, which I could not understand clearly.
Not sure if it is found in the attached picture.
2) to get my identification validated.

Regards.
Dinesh