Well... There is more than one problem...
First, as I understand I sulcata, flowers are uniform in color, and (please
remember that I never seen it by myself) there is kind of hood over opening
of lower sepal, below upper petal - I don't know part of what is it.
So for me your plants are not I. sulcata.
Second - what is I. amphorata, now called I. bicolor? In old literature I.
bicolor is clearly described as having bicolored, yellow and rosa flowers.
Plants with such flowers were recently found in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Plants depicted as I. bicolor on Flowers of India webpage are similar,
however with less or more rosa colored flowers (apart some markings and
streaks). On the other hand, plants pictured on Flowers of India webpage
and here by Gurcharan ji look almost like rosa version of newly described
I. devendrae. There was I. pseudobicolor described by Grey-Wilson, but when
I was checking new webpage dealing with Flora of Pakistan there is no trace
of this taxon - maybe author decided to remove it. My conclusion is: maybe
there are different color forms of I. bicolor - one actually bicolored,
yellow and rosa, another less or more uniform (besides markings and
streaks)?
Wojciech
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