Very good study Pankaj Ji. Identifying a pollinator of a particular species must be a tedious job with great patience. I do not know whether this hoverfly is generalist or specific to this orchid (egg laying though indicate specific relationship) this case is very similar to the co-evolution of Yucca whiplei and Pronuba yuccasela case. Pollination methods are very interesting in flowering plants and the plants are more evolving taxa for such relationships. This case gives me another example to be explained to PG students for co-evolution. Thank you for this very valuable information. DSRawat Pantnagar
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 7:20:58 PM UTC+5:30, Dr Pankaj Kumar wrote: > > Epipactis veratrifolia Boiss. & Hohen. in P.E.Boissier, Diagn. Pl. > Orient. 13: 11 (1854). > > Synonyms: > Limodorum veratrifolium (Boiss. & Hohen.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: > 671 (1891), nom. illeg. > Arthrochilium veratrifolium (Boiss. & Hohen.) Szlach., Orchidee > (Hamburg) 54: 588 (2003). > Epipactis amoena Buch.-Ham. ex Wall., Numer. List: n.ยบ 7403 (1832), nom. > nud. > Epipactis consimilis Wall. ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 126 (1890), > nom. illeg. > Epipactis somaliensis Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. > Afr. 7: 189 (1897). > Epipactis abyssinica Pax, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 39: 612 (1907). > Serapias somaliensis (Rolfe) A.A.Eaton, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 21: 67 > (1908). > Helleborine consimilis Druce, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 547 (1909). > Helleborine somaliensis (Rolfe) Druce, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 547 > (1909). > Amesia somaliensis (Rolfe) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr., Bot. Gaz. 56: 473 > (1913). > Epipactis handelii Schltr., Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. > Kl. 57: 274 (1920). > Epipactis wallichii Schltr., Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. > Kl. 57: 275 (1920). > Arthrochilium handelii (Schltr.) Szlach., Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 588 > (2003). > > Distribution: Caucasus to Somalia and SC. China > > Regards > Pankaj > > > -- > *********************************************************** > Pankaj Kumar, Ph.D. > IUCN-SSC Orchid Specialist Group Asia > > Office: > Conservation Officer > Orchid Conservation Section > Flora Conservation Department > Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation > Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. > Residence: > 151, 1st Floor, Tai Om Tsuen > Lam Tsuen, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. > > email: [email protected] <javascript:>; [email protected] <javascript:> > Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:00pm); +852 9436 6251 > (mobile). Fax: +852 2483 7194 > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
