Wayanad flora #11 | Climber-Red fruit IdReq 24Mar2011

[raghu ananth]

Wayanad flora #11 | Climber-Red fruit IdReq 24Mar2011   Date/Time-10 Jan 2011 Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Sulthan Battery, Waynaad, Kerala Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-, Garden Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Climber Height/Length-approx - 30 feet, Climbing on  a tree, Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- Shape - ~Heart, Margin -Smooth, Size-10 cms approx., almost dry- leaves/fruit Inflorescence Type/ Size- Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts - No flowers Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- Red, 9cms, dry fruit-brown, Other Information like Fragrance, Pollinator, Uses etc.-        Regards Raghu

[Balkar Arya]

Cucurbitaceae

May be Trichosanthes??




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Regards

Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

[Neil Soares]

Hi,  This is Solena amplexicaulis [S.heterophylla]. Sending you one of my photographs taken at my farm. Also please check the archives of this group for my other photographs of this.                           Regards.                            Neil Soares.  --- On Thu, 3/24/11, raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com> wrote:

[Smilax004]

I am just curious why it is called amplexicaulis? The leaf is not
amplexicaulis in the picture.

Regards
Giby

On Mar 24, 10:52 pm, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  This is Solena amplexicaulis [S.heterophylla]. Sending you one of my photographs taken at my farm. Also please check the archives of this group for my other photographs of this.
>                           Regards.
>                            Neil Soares. 
>

> --- On Thu, 3/24/11, raghu ananth <raghu_...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> From: raghu ananth <raghu_...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [efloraofindia:65569] Wayanad flora #11 | Climber-Red fruit IdReq 24Mar2011
> To: indian...@googlegroups.com
> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 7:18 PM
>
> Wayanad flora #11 | Climber-Red fruit IdReq 24Mar2011
>  
> Date/Time-10 Jan 2011
> Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Sulthan Battery, Waynaad, Kerala
> Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-, Garden
> Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Climber
> Height/Length-approx - 30 feet, Climbing on  a tree,
> Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- Shape - ~Heart, Margin -Smooth, Size-10 cms approx., almost dry- leaves/fruit
> Inflorescence Type/ Size-
> Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts - No flowers
> Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- Red, 9cms, dry fruit-brown,
> Other Information like Fragrance, Pollinator, Uses etc.- 
>  
>  
>  
> Regards
> Raghu
>

>  Solena amplexicaulis.jpg
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[Vijayasankar]

Dear Giby,

Solena amplexicaulis is a highly polymorphic species with lots of variation in the shape & size of leaves and fruits and also in the length of petiole, etc.
May be that is the reason it has got several synonyms. One of the synonyms, S. heterophylla, also denotes the variable nature of leaves in this plant (for nonbotanists: hetero=different; phylla=leaves).
Dr.K.N.Gandhi worked on its nomenclature to bring out clarifications. Dr. Chakravarty, who revised this family for BSI's Flora of India opined that "this is an extremely
heteromorphic species amongst the Cucurbits" and he also suggested segregation of this taxon into many varieties and forms.

Hope this answers your question.

 

Regards 

 

Vijayasankar Raman
National Center for Natural Products Research
University of Mississippi

[Giby Kuriakose]

Dear Vijaysankar,

Thanks for the clarification and information on the species. 

Regards

Giby

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Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave,
Jakkur Post, Srirampura
Bangalore- 560064
India
Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile)
visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby

[JM Garg]

I think it should be Solena heterophylla Lour. subsp. heterophylla as per DeWilde_Solena_Blumea2004 (1).pdf

[JM Garg]

Taking it as Solena umbellata (Willd.) W.J. de Wilde & Duyfjes as no distribution for Solena heterophylla Lour. subsp. heterophylla as per  Review of the Genus Solena (Cucurbitaceae) Authors: Wilde, W.J.J.O. De; Duyfjes, B.E.E. Source: Blumea – Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants, Volume 49, Number 1, May 2004 , pp. 69-81(13)

[JM Garg]

Taking it as Solena umbellata (Willd.) W.J. de Wilde & Duyfjes as no distribution for Solena heterophylla Lour. subsp. heterophylla as per  Review of the Genus Solena (Cucurbitaceae) Authors: Wilde, W.J.J.O. De; Duyfjes, B.E.E. Source: Blumea – Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants, Volume 49, Number 1, May 2004 , pp. 69-81(13).
Also as there are ridges on the fruit, it should be Solena umbellata (Willd.) W.J. de Wilde & Duyfjes.