Lads with churchungi soppu (Itching herb) - Tragia involucrata L.

[raghu ananth]

Regional name: Churchungi soppu (Itching herb)

Tragia involucrata L. (Hope the scientific name is correct)

http://envis.frlht.org.in/plant_details.php?disp_id=2104

Nov 7, 2010, 4.24PM, Sunday

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The evening rains force the village lads to come home early. The rains might have played spoilsport but there’s no reason as to why the boys cannot have a bit of fun. Many times I have seen these children with loads of green grass on their shoulder and Bicycle.   But this time they are found carrying these little greens from the lake surroundings, known to cause itching on human skin and use them on folks – theirs friends and surreptitiously on their foes we well! 

Heavy rains lashed around 5PM in the evening and continued till 3 AM in the morning.

Place Chandagal village, Mysore district

Regards

Raghu

[raghu ananth]

This green grass the lad is carrying in gunny bags for the livestock, is cut & brought from the cauvery river banks which is about 4 kms away.

From my photo archive - dated 16 May 2010

Chandagal, Mysore district

Regards

Raghu

Nov 2010

Chennai

[tanay bose]

Tragia involucrata in plant is horrible it itches your skin

tanay

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[C KUNHIKANNAN]

Tragia involucrata
Kunhikannan

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Dr. C.Kunhikannan,
Division of Biodiversity,
Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding,
Forest Campus,  R.S.Puram,
Coimbatore-641002, Tamilnadu.

[Pankaj Kumar]

Tragia involucrata L. Sp. Pl. 2: 980. 1753

Type: LINN 1103.8 (Herb Linn)
This should be designated as type as till now type has not been
designated for this taxa.
Pankaj

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:45 PM, raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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[Pankaj Kumar]

On second thought, I just realised, that the plant on sheet is different.
Can anyone through some light?
Protologue says pinnatifid.
Regards
Pankaj

[Vijayasankar]

Hi Pankaj, pl see the herbarium specimen has already been correctly determined as Tragia cannabina which is now T. plukenetii.

 

Regards

 

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Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Research Associate
National Center for Natural Products Research
Thad Cochran Research Center
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
Phone: +1 662 915 1018

[Pankaj Kumar]

Ahh, I am sorry I didnt notice it :(.

Yes this is not the type for involucrata ..
Thanks for clarification Vijay.
My apologies for wrong posting too.
Pankaj

[Vijayasankar]

I think the link has not been updated in the website's database, thats why when you searched for T.involucrata, you got this. So its not your mistake :).

 

Regards

 

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Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Research Associate
National Center for Natural Products Research
Thad Cochran Research Center
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
Phone: +1 662 915 1018

[Pankaj Kumar]

true :P

[JM Garg]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please Tragia involucrata

[Tapas Chakrabarty]

Tragia involucrata.

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks a lot,  Tapas ji