Recirculating this for comparison with I. kemaonensis which I photographed this year from Uttarakhand.
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 Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:54 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]>wrote: > In my nest visit I will try to find out! > > DSRawat Pantnagar > > > On Monday, August 9, 2010 7:51:05 AM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >> >> Iris hookeriana Foster from Kashmir, one of the most common but under >> reported species of Western Himalayas in subalpine and alpine zone. >> Specimens are often found identified under I. kemaonensis. I had studied >> more than two hundred specimens of I. kumaonensis (spellings used earlier) >> in Calcutta, Dehradun, Lucknow and other Herbaria and found more than 95 >> per cent specimens actually belonging to I. hookeriana back in 1972-73. >> >> >> >> The two species are distinguished as Under: >> >> I. hookeriana: Flowers on distinct 5-15 (30) cm long peduncle; peduncle >> 2-fld; bracts almost covering corolla tube; corolla tube (hypanthium) 2-3 >> cm long; Beard white >> I. kemaonensis: Flowers sessile, peduncle absent or very short; 1-fld, >> flowers appearing almost from ground. bracts covering only base of corolla >> tube; corolla tube 5-7.5 cm long; beard yellow-orange tipped. >> >> Incidently there is another species named after Hooker, I. hookeri Penny >> ex G. Don. Although code does not ban such names, it is recommended to the >> authors not to name a species within a genus after the same person/place. >> >> --; >> 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://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. > > > -- 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.
