Solanaceae » Physalis joe-diasii


... only this view

commonly known as: Joe Dias's groundcherry
(I do not know who this great man Joe Dias is; OR they could be two persons !!   )


at Ghodbunder Road, Thane, Maharashtra

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... this plant is only found at two places on internet:
1) Floristic Survey of Institute of Science
2) planttaxonomy.blogspot

लगता है इस घॊडबंदर रोड पर आना पड़ेगा - बहुत फूल मिलते हैं यहाँ!

    Thank you very much, Tabish.
Much of Ghodbunder Road passes through the S G National Park.

Trying to find a descrïption of this one...

FSISc page says the species P. joe-diasii was described by Almeida & Almeida ... may be Navendu can help ... some extract from BSI books.

ID validated by Satish Pardeshi at IndianTreePix.
He says:
this plant is discovered by Mr and Mrs. Almeida. its diagosintic feature is the leaf with dentate margin, deeply U-shaped indentation, with short pointed serration.
this was collected from SGNP, Borivali.
ref: Physalis joe-diasii Almeida & Almeida, Fl. Mah. 3: 369, 2001.

Dear Dinesh, thanks for reminding me. It had slipped off my mind - this always happens if I put it off for a while.
It is on the site now:
http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Joe%20Dias%27s%20Ground%20Cherry.html