Here is a reply from Dr. Sabu, authority on Zingiberaceae of India. "Dear Mr. Garg, As I have been out of station I could not attend to the mail. The image is that of *Curcuma inodora*. It is a highly variable species in the colour of bracts, coma, labellum and staminodes . Regards Dr.M. Sabu Secretary, IAAT Professor, Department of Botany University of Calicut Kerala, 673635 India. Mob: 09447636333"
2009/10/5 Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> > Dear Sir, > > Its a case of long forgotten species or very often misidentified. I > got this species identified from one of my best friend of Czech origin > who revised the Indian genera of Curcuma. I trust she cant be wrong. > She is now curator of Ginger garden at Singapore Botanic Gardens. > Zinger garden at SING is supposed to be the authority for registration > of Gingers from all over the world. While doing some field works > together with her (around 7 of them), we very often came across > pseudomontana in Jharkhand, Chattishgarh and Uttarakhand so I could > identify that it was somewhat different from what I know. > > See Hooker's Flora of British India, Vol V, page 214 - 215 and > Roxburgh's Flora Indica, Vol i: page 35 - 36 for collection record. > These two files were there on my DVD. > > Regards > Pankaj > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' Image Resource of thousands of my images of Birds, Butterflies, Flora etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Indiantreepix: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
