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    Collection No.

    1
    Date: 20/1/2013

    Name:

    Aparajita.

    Family:

    Papillinoceae.

    Genus:

    Clitoria

    Species:

    ternatea Linn.

    Locality:

    Hadapsar.

    Notes:

    Perenial climber
    Leaves: pinnately 3-7 foliolate
    Flowers: Showy, blue, petals uneqal, style bearded below the
    stigma
    Fruits: pods, linear compressed.
    Seeds: 6-10, Black

    Collection No. 2
    Date: 8/8/11

    Name:

    Aragvadha

    Family:

    Leguminosae.

    Genus:

    Cassia

    Species:

    fistula Linn.

    Locality:

    Sawantawadi.

    Notes:

    Moderate-sized tree, 3-5 m. in height.


    Bark: greenish-grey or brick red.
    Leaves: paripinnate, 5-12cm long; leaflet 8-16 acuminate,
    ovate-lanceolate
    Flowers: in lax pedunlous racemes, yellow, fragrant.
    Pods: cylindrical, pendulous, indehiscent, 25-30cm long & 1.3-3
    cm diameter.
    Seeds: numerous, small, flat,smooth, yellowish grey, surrounded
    by black pulp when ripen.

    Collection No. 3
    Date: 8/8/11

    Name:

    Atibala.

    Family:

    Malvaceae.

    Genus:

    Abutilon

    Species:

    indicum Linn.

    Locality:

    Sawantawadi.

    Notes:

    perennial softly tomentose shrub, stem- round, frequently tinged


    with purple.
    Leaves: ovate to orbicular cordate.
    Flowers: solitary on jointed peduncles, orange yellow or yellow.
    Capsules: hispid, hardly larger than the calyx.
    Seeds: 3-5, reniform, tubercled or stellete-hairy, black or dark
    brown.

    Collection No. 4
    Date: 7/9/12

    Name:

    Bharangi.

    Family:

    Verbenaceae.

    Genus:

    Clerodendron

    Species:

    serratum Linn.

    Locality:

    Amba-ghat.

    Notes:

    Shrub, 1.5 3 m. in height, glabrous; hollow branches.


    Leaves: opposite, lanceolate
    Flowers: elongated terminal panicles; bracts linear; calyx
    campanulate; corolla white, glabrous.
    Fruits: drupes, blue.
    Seeds: obolong.

    Collection No. 5
    Date: 7/9/12

    Name:

    Bruhati.

    Family:

    Solanaceae.

    Genus:

    Solanum

    Species:

    indicum Linn.

    Locality:

    Amba-ghat.

    Notes:

    herbaceous, stout 2 m high, prickly and densly wooly.


    Leaves: ovate with short triangular lobes, villous above,
    stellately fulvous-woolly beneath.
    Flowers: in dense recemes, wooly, with needle-like hairs, calyx
    shortly funnel shaped, lobes ovate-triangular, corolla white-blue,
    oblong, acute.
    Fruits: berries, yellow when ripe.

    Collection No. 6
    Date: 8/8/11

    Name:

    Danti.

    Family:

    Euphorbiaceae.

    Genus:

    Baliospermum

    Species:

    montanum Muell.

    Locality:

    Sawantawadi.

    Notes:

    Stout monoecious leafy shrub, 0.9-2 m. in height.


    Leaves: sinuate-toothed,
    lower large, 15-30 cm long; oblong-ovate, palmately
    3-5 lobed; upper small 5-8 cm long lanceolate; petioles
    with pair of stipular glands
    Flowers: in axillary racemes, all male or with few female below.
    Fruits: capsule, obovoid, large.
    Seeds: obolong, mottled.

    Collection No. 7
    Date: 20/1/2013

    Name:
    Family:

    Eranda.
    Euphobiaceae.

    Genus:

    Ricinus

    Species:

    communis Linn.

    Locality:

    Hadapsar.

    Notes:

    An evergreen, glabrous shrub, 2-4.5 m. in height.


    Leaves: palmately 7 many lobed, lobose oblong to linear, acute
    or acuminate
    Flowers: in large terminal subpanicled racemes; in a dense
    globose head of branched filaments and anthers; yellowish.
    Fruits: capsules, globosely oblong, smooth or echinate.
    Seeds: oblong, smooth, mottled.

    Collection No. 8
    Date: 9/8/11

    Name:

    Gambhari.

    Family:

    Verbenaceae.

    Genus:

    Gmelina

    Species:

    arborea Linn.

    Locality:

    Sawantawadi.

    Notes:

    Large deciduous tree, 20 m. high.


    Leaves: large, tomentose underneath, cordate-ovate, acuminate.
    Flowers: yellow, tinged with brown, in terminal and axillary
    racemiform panicles, composed of lateral cymes.
    Fruits: drupes, yellow when ripe.
    Seeds: obolong.

    Collection No. 9
    Date: 7/9/12

    Name:

    Gojivha.

    Family:

    Compositacae.

    Genus:

    Elephantopus

    Species:

    scaber

    Locality:

    Amba Ghat

    Notes:

    herbs, whole plant scabrous.


    Leaves-radical, rossetted at base, 6-18 x 2-5 cm, obovate to
    oblong or oblanceolate, base attenuate, margin crenate, apex
    obtuse or broadly acute, narrow, sessile, base amplexicaule.
    Flowers 2-5, bisexual. Corolla purple; tube 5-6 mm long, lobes
    5. Stamens 5, auricled at base. Ovary 3 -4 mm, oblong; style
    arms subulate. Achenes 4-5 mm long, 10-ribbed. Pappus of 4-6
    spiny bristles.

    Collection No. 10
    Date: 21/12/12

    Name:

    Kakodumbara.

    Family:

    Moraceae.

    Genus:

    Ficus

    Species:

    hispida Linn.

    Locality:

    Ulavi.

    Notes:

    Shrubs to medium sized trees, up to 10 m tall. Trunk & BarkBark


    brownish, lenticellate; blaze pink.
    Leaves: simple, opposite, decussate, elliptic-oblong,apex
    caudate acuminate, base rounded subcordate or truncatesubcordate, margin entire or dentate, scabrid on both surface,
    hispid beneath.
    Flower: clustered on tubercles of main trunk, older branches and
    sometimes on pendulous leafless branches; unisexual.
    Fruit and Seed: Syconium, globose.

    Collection No. 11
    Date: 7/9/12

    Name:

    Kantakari.

    Family:

    Solanaceae.

    Genus:

    Solanum

    Species:

    xanthocarpum Scharad.

    Locality:

    Amba Ghat

    Notes:

    a prickly diffused herb.


    Leaves ovate or elliptic sinuate or subpinnatifid glabrescent,
    with straight spikes.
    Flowers- in few flowered lateral cymes, blue coloured; corolla
    with shallow lobes.
    Fruit- globose berries, glabrous, whitish and green-blotched,
    yellow when ripe. Seeds -many, glaboous.

    Collection No. 12
    Date: 8/9/12

    Name:

    Kukkutnakhi

    Family:

    Dryopteridaceae

    Genus:

    Tectoria

    Species:

    coadunata

    Locality:

    Amba Ghat

    Notes:

    a pteridophyte fern. Rhizome short creeping, densely scaly at


    the apex; apex acuminate. Stipes scattered. Lamina ovate or
    broadly ovate, about 3040 cm; base cordate, bipinnate or
    bipinnatifid. Primary pinnae was opposite to subopposite or
    alternate, about 8 cm apart, slightly ascending; secondary
    pinnae mostly adnate and decurrent, about five pairs, alternate
    about 2 cm apart. Multicellular hairs densely distributed all over
    the lamina except the abaxial side of the main rachis.
    Compital- spores are reniform or planoconvex or spherical, pale
    brown with broad anasomosed winged perispore.

    Collection No. 13
    Date: 8/8/11

    Name:

    Kumari

    Family:

    Liliaceae

    Genus:

    Aloe

    Species:

    vera

    Locality:

    Sawantawadi.

    Notes:

    a perennial plant with short stem, smaller asiatic form


    Leaves: 30cm long, erect, fleshy, lanceolate; recurved at tips,
    rounded beneath, blue-green with white markings and whitish
    teeth.
    Flowers- orange.

    Collection No. 14
    Date: 20/1/2013

    Name:

    Lajjalu.

    Family:

    Mimosaceae.

    Genus:

    Mimosa

    Species:

    pudica Linn.

    Locality:

    Hadapsar.

    Notes:

    Prickly woody herb with diffuse branches.


    Leaves: bipinnate, very sensitive; leaflet- 12-20 pairs, 8 cm long
    and obliquely narrow , obolong.
    Flowers: globose, pinkish head
    Fruits: pods, 1-3 cm long, flat, membranous.

    Collection No. 15
    Date: 7/9/12

    Name:

    Langali

    Family:

    Liliaceae

    Genus:

    Gloriosa

    Species:

    superba

    Locality:

    Amba Ghat

    Notes:

    glabrous herbaceous climber, tuberous root-stock is cylindrical,


    bifurcated, plough-shaped with two limbs equal or unequal in
    length, pointed at the ends. Two slender terate herbaceous
    glabrous slightly glaucous unbranched shoots arise that bears
    sessile or subsessile leaves.
    Leaves: alternate, opposite or ovate-lanceolate with acuminate
    tips spirally twisted to serve as tendrils.
    Flowers: showy, large solitary or sub-corymbose with perianth
    segments which have wavy margins.greenish first and later
    becoming yellow and finally scarlet or crimson.
    Capsule: coriaceous, septicidol. Seeds- few, sub globose, wing
    like.

    Collection No. 16
    Date: 8/9/12

    Name:

    Patha

    Family:

    Menispermaceae

    Genus:

    Cissampelous

    Species:

    pariera Linn.

    Locality:

    Amba Ghat

    Notes:

    Climbing shrub, branches pubescent.


    Leaves: peltate, 3.8-10 cm diameter
    Flowers: minute, yellowish; male flowers in axillary cymes,
    peduncle 18 mm long; sepals 4, hairy, obovate-oblong; petals
    combined into a cyanthiform corolla, half the length of the
    sepals; filament longer than corolla. Female flowerin elongate,
    solitary or twin axillary racemes; pedicels very short; bract
    foliaceous or nearly sessile orbicular or reniform. Sepal 1, ovate
    oblong. Petal 1, subrotund.
    Fruit: drupe, subglobose, hairy, red, endocarp transversely
    ridged.

    Collection No. 17
    Date: 20/1/2013

    Name:

    Rakta chitrak.

    Family:

    Plumbaginaceae.

    Genus:

    Plumbago

    Species:

    rosea Linn.

    Locality:

    Hadapasar.

    Notes:

    This winter flowering plant begins to show off its soft red, festive
    colors in time for winters. This is an erect or spreading, more or
    less branched, herbaceous or half-woody plant 1.5 meters or
    less in height.
    Leaves: ovate to oblong-ovate, 8 to 13 centimeters long, slightly
    drooping, and smooth, with entire, undulate or wavy margins,
    pointed or blunt tip, and pointed base.
    Spikes: 15 to 30 centimeters long.
    Calyx is tubular, 8 to 10 millimeters long, and covered with
    stalked, sticky glands. The corolla is bright red, the tube is
    slender and about 2.5 centimeters long, and the limb, which
    spreads, is about 3 cm in diameter.

    Collection No. 18
    Date: 20/1/2013

    Name:

    Rakta vasa.

    Family:

    Acanthaceae.

    Genus:

    Justicia

    Species:

    picta Linn

    Locality:

    Hadapsar.

    Notes:

    Shrub that will grow to 6-9 tall. Caricature plant is primarily


    grown for its variegated foliage.
    Leaves -Oval to elliptic are deep green varyingly blotched with
    cream along the midveins.
    Flowers- Terminal clusters (3-4 long) of red to purple-red
    tubular with protruding stamens bloom in summer. Flowers often
    do not appear on container plants, particularly if stems are
    regularly pinched to promote new foliage growth.

    Collection No. 19
    Date: 7/9/12

    Name:

    Saptaparna.

    Family:

    Apocyanaceae.

    Genus:

    Alstonia

    Species:

    scholaris R. Br.

    Locality:
    Notes:

    Amba Ghat
    a larged tree with whorled branches and bitter milky juice .
    Leaves: in whorls of 5-7 sometimes 11, cooriaceous, glabrous,
    oblong or obovate- oblong, obtuse.
    Flowers: greenish-white or greenish-yellow, fragrant,borne in
    umbellate eymes.
    Fruits: slender follicles, in pendulous clusters.
    Seeds: possessing brown hair.

    Collection No. 20
    Date: 9/8/11

    Name:

    Sariva.

    Family:

    Asclepidaceae.

    Genus:

    Hemedismus

    Species:

    indicus R.Br.

    Locality:

    Sawantawadi.

    Notes:

    A slender twining or prostrate perennial with terete stem.


    Leaves: from broadly obovate to oblong-elliptic, linear or linearlanceolate, obtuse or apiculate.
    Flowers: small, yellow or greenish-purple in opposite, crowded
    subsessile cymes.
    Fruits: follicles.

    Collection No. 21
    Date: 21/12/12

    Name:
    Family-

    Shanapushpi.
    Fabaceae.

    Genus:

    Crotalaria

    Species:

    verrucosa Linn.

    Locality:

    Ulavi.

    Notes:

    Erect, branched herbs, stems striate, 4-angled.


    Leaves: ovate-rhomboid or ovate-deltoid, base acute, apex
    obtuse or acute, appressed-pubescent on both surfaces.
    Flowers:terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. pedicels 3-5 mm
    long; bracts lanceolate. Calyx pubescent, with deltoid, acute
    lobes longer than the tube. Corolla blue or white,standard c. 1.2
    cm long, broadly ovate; wings obovate; keels oblong.
    Pods:oblong-cylindrical, inflated.
    Seeds: cordiform, browinish.

    Collection No. 22
    Date: 9/8/11

    Name:

    Shatavari.

    Family:

    Liliaceae.

    Genus:

    Asparagus.

    Species:

    racemosus Willd.

    Locality:

    Sawantawadi.

    Notes:

    A tall climbing undershrub with annual woody erect stems.


    Spines 5-13 mm long, recurved.
    Cladodes: 1.5-2 cm long, in tufts of 2-6, curved.
    Flowers: white, fragrant, in solitary or fascicled, simple or
    branched racemes 2.5-5 cm long.
    Fruits: berry, 5-6 mm diameter, red.

    Collection No. 23
    Date: 8/8/11

    Name:

    Shewta vasa.

    Family:

    Acanthaceae.

    Genus:

    Adhathoda

    Species:

    vasica Nees.

    Locality:

    Sawantawadi.

    Notes:

    A dense shrub.
    Leaves: elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate.
    Flowers: white, in dense spikes; bract ovate or obovate; calyx
    deeply 5 lobed; stamen glabrous.
    Fruits: four seeded capsules.
    Seeds: glabrous.

    Collection No. 24
    Date: 9/8/11

    Name:

    Shweta kutaja

    Family:

    Apocynaceae.

    Genus:

    Holarrhena

    Species:

    antidysentrica.

    Locality:

    Savantwadi.

    Notes:

    A small decidous tree.


    Leaves: elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong.
    Flowers: white, in corymbose cymes, fragrant.
    Fruits: folicks, slender, parallel, terete, coriaceous, with white
    spots.
    Seeds: narrowly linear-oblong, glabrous.

    Collection No. 25
    Date: 20/1/13

    Name:

    Sinduri.

    Family:

    Bixaceae.

    Genus:

    Bixa

    Species:

    orellana Linn.

    Locality:

    Hadapsar.

    Notes:

    Woody shrub, heavily and densely branched.


    Leaves: cordate, acuminate, shining, glabrous, 8-12 cm long.
    Flowers: Pinkish, solitary, axillary
    Fruits: capsule, spiny and red in colour.
    Seed: many, bright red, tomentose.

    Collection No. 26
    Date: 20/1/13

    Name:

    Snuhi.

    Family:

    Euphorbiaceae.

    Genus:

    Euphorbia

    Species:

    nerilifolia Linn.

    Locality:

    Hadapsar.

    Notes:

    Small tree with heavy flowing milk latex.


    Branches: cylindric, 2 sharp spines arises from spirally arranged
    tubercles.
    Leaves:alternate fleshy, clustered towards the end of the
    branches, sessile, 10-20 cm long.
    Fruits: capsules, 0,6 mm broad and contain smooth and flat
    seeds.

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