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Dictyospermum<\/i> ovalifolium<\/i> Wight<\/span>, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 6: t. 2070 1853<\/i>. (Syn: Aneilema<\/i> hallbergii<\/i> Blatt.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Aneilema<\/i> ovalifolium<\/i> (Wight) Hook.f. ex C.B.Clarke<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Dictyospermum<\/i> wightii<\/i> Hassk.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Phaeneilema<\/i> hallbergii<\/i> (Blatt.) Raizada<\/span><\/font><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Dictyospermum<\/b> Wight
Thyrses mostly 5- 16 cm long …………………….Dictyospermum montanum<\/b> Wight
<\/font>Thyrses mostly 4- 6 cm long……………………….Dictyopsermum ovalifolium<\/b> Wight<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Commelinales and Zingiberales Week: Commelinaceae: Dictyospermum<\/a>: Dictyospermum<\/b> Wight,\u00a0Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 6: 29. 1853.
Type : D. montanum Wight (Lectotype).
Greek dictyon \u201cnet\u201d and sperma \u201cseed\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Herbs perennial. Rhizomes long. Stems erect or ascending. Leaves alternate, mostly aggregated at apex of stems. Cincinni long, with numerous flowers, forming terminal panicles; involucral bracts small. Flowers actinomorphic. Sepals free, boat-shaped. Petals free, white. Fertile stamens 3, equal, middle one inserted opposite petal; filaments glabrous, posterior; anther locules longitudinally dehiscent; staminodes 3; antherodes 2-lobed, horizontally divergent. Ovary 3-loculed; ovules 1 per locule. Capsule 3-valved, globose, trigonous. Seeds 1 per valve, oblong, reticulate or not; hilum linear, embryotega dorsal.<\/font><\/div>\n
Four or five species in tropical Asia.
Here is presenting D. ovalifolium<\/i>
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Requesting id of a plant 3 seen at Iruppu, Kodagu, Karnataka<\/a>: Please find attached photos of a herb with flower and fruit, but not of good quality picture, requesting id. \u00a0This was seen at Iruppu, Kodagu, Karnataka on 30.07.2011<\/font>\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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3-4 Plant was about a feet height amid strobilanthus<\/i> ; all were at same height; besides a stream; i too searched in commelinanceae<\/i>, but didn’t succeed. I remember them erect, straight from soil, not trailing. <\/p>\n
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Let me try for this. I too have seen this plant at higher reaches of Brahmagiri hills that was also along the streams.<\/font> But there were no flowers that time.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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\nDictyospermum ovalifolium<\/i><http:\/\/www.tropicos.org\/NamePage.aspx?nameid=50282556<\/font><\/a>>
\u00a0Wight <http:\/\/www.tropicos.org\/NamePage.aspx?nameid=50282556<\/font><\/a>> for sure…….
Distribution: southern peninsular India.<\/font> <\/p>\n
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Dictyospermum ovalifolium<\/i><\/b> has a synonym, Aneilema ovalifolium<\/i> and is endemic to the Western Ghats.<\/font> <\/div>\n
Few clarifications (please consider these clarifications for better understanding of the species). <\/div>\n
Whether the fruits are dehiscent or indehiscent and blue at maturity? \u00a0whether the leaves (especially lower leaves) petioled or not? and the number of perfect stamens. <\/div>\n
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First up all I wish to clear genus Aneilema<\/i> is truly African genus and not a single species of Aneilema<\/i> is found in India. However, all the earlier Indian Aneilema<\/i> species are synonymous under few genera like Murdannia, Dictyospermum, Pollia<\/i> and Rhopalephora<\/i>.\u00a0\n<\/div>\n
All these above mentioned genera are differentiate on the basis of capsule and stamen character.
Stamens 6……….Tradescantieae (Cyanotis, Amischtolype, Callisia, Tradescantia, Belosynapsis, etc)
<\/font>Stamens 2-3 ……………………………… Commelina, Murdannia, Pollia, Rhopalephora, Dictyospermum)<\/font> <\/div>\n
Stamens antesepalous…………………………Murdannia<\/b>
Stamens all anterior……………………….
Fruits sticky with hook-hairs…………………..Rhopalephora<\/b>
Fruit indehiscent, berry like…………………….Pollia<\/b><\/font>
Fruit dehiscent ………………………………….Dictyospermum<\/b><\/font> <\/div>\n
Dictyospermum<\/b> Wight
Thyrses mostly 5- 16 cm long …………………….Dictyospermum montanum<\/b> Wight
<\/font>Thyrses mostly 4- 6 cm long……………………….Dictyopsermum ovalifolium<\/b> Wight<\/font> <\/div>\n
And I am sure (its my personal opinion) the above posted specimen is Dictyopsermum ovalifolium Wight <\/p>\n
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Thank you very much for the wonderful and clear explanation on Dictyopsermum ovalifolium<\/i>. <\/div>\n
Do any one has the following publications, If someone has these papers would you please share the same with me. <\/div>\n
The classification of Commelinaceae<\/i> J. P. M. BRENAN <\/div>\n
Article first published online: 28 JUNE 2008 in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (pages 349\u2013370) <\/div>\n
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A revision of the genus Aneilema<\/i> R. Brown (Commelinaceae) with a cytotaxonomic account of the West African species J. K. MORTON
Article first published online: 28 JUNE 2008 in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (pages 431\u2013478) <\/p>\n
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Valparai 080714 TBN 3 for id\/? Commelinaceae\/ TBN July 3<\/a> : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2).\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
Please identify this plant details of which are as follows:<\/div>\n
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Location :Valparai to Sholayar road<\/font><\/div>\n
Altitude :4000 ft<\/font><\/div>\n
Habitat :wet evergreen forest<\/font><\/div>\n
Habit \ud83d\ude15 under shrub<\/font><\/div>\n
Height :less than a feet<\/font><\/div>\n
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Probably an Aneilema<\/i> sp<\/p>\n
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The posted specimen is Dictyospermum ovalifolium<\/b> <\/i>Wight. of Commelinaceae<\/i>.<\/font><\/div>\n
This species with reduced thyrses<\/font> while one more species called D. montanum<\/b> <\/i>with lax thyrses and more lanceolate leaves.<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n
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ID KANNUR 38- 1<\/a>\u00a0: 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments<\/span> (1)<\/font><\/span> <\/div>\n
Please identify this herb<\/font> from Kannur District of Kerala…<\/font><\/div>\n
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It is Pollia secundiflora<\/i> –Commellinaceae<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It is Dictyospermum ovalifolium <\/i>(Commelinaceae<\/i>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Dictyospermum ovalifolium Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 6: t. 2070 1853. (Syn: Aneilema hallbergii Blatt.; Aneilema ovalifolium (Wight) Hook.f. ex C.B.Clarke; Dictyospermum wightii Hassk.; Phaeneilema hallbergii (Blatt.) Raizada); Images by Shivaprakash and Mayur Nandikar \u00a0 \u00a0 Dictyospermum Wight Thyrses mostly 5- 16 cm long …………………….Dictyospermum montanum Wight Thyrses mostly 4-…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5597],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1335067","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-dictyospermum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1335067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1335067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1335067"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1335067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}