Yes Dr. Wojciech That is my dilemma also. I had initially identified it as I. amphorata but discarded it because it is now considered as synonym of I. bicolor, and this picture of I. bicolor looks very different: http://www.floralook.com/en/no_cache/home/photo/impatiens-bicolor-1/?search_on=1
No such two colour separation is mentioned in original descriptions of I. amphorata either in Blatter Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir (which keys out species in the bracket of larger flowered forms differing from both I. sulcata and I. roylei (now glandulifera) in alternate leaves. The Flora of British India calls it more similar to I. bicornuta in appearance but with petioles 2-glandular at base, leaf apex not produced into tail, sepals cordate, lip saccate without green callus points of I. bicornuta. The flowers are said to be rose and yellow with purple lines and spur long. The things seem to be matching. And now since I. davendrae was carved out of this group it would be worthwhile to compare the two. My plant seems to resemble it except the absence of white flower colour; the shape of lower corolla lobes, the appendage es and throat colour seem to be matching. But perhaps we will have to exclude I. harae and I. pradhanii first. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Wojciech <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
