Fantastic find. Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for sharing your prized catch with all of us.
Regards Prashant On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Photographs are here > > 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 Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> This was my most prized catch of 2013 from above Tungnath in Uttarakhand >> on June 1, I had worked on Iris kemaonensis Wall. ex D. Don (I. kumaonensis >> in most earlier Indian Books). and studied its confusion with I. >> hookeriana in most Indian Floras including Hooker's Flora of British India. >> The two species are very distinct at least in two major features: >> 1. I. hookeriana: aerial stems distinct longer than 10 cm; perianth tube >> less than 2 cm long. >> 2. I. kemaonensis: Aerial stems highly reduced, not longer than 10 cm >> (longer stemed I. kemaonensis var. caulescens Baker is now considered as >> synonym of I. hookeriana); perianth tube 5-8 cm long. >> >> In 1972-73 I had studied nearly 700-800 herbarium specimens in various >> Indian Herbaria including the three major ones Calcutta, Dehradun and >> Lucknow and found that more than 90 % of specimens identified as I. >> kumaonensis actually belonged to I. hookeriana, and that former has much >> more restricted distribution than I. hookeriana, which is more widely >> distributed in W. Himalayas. I. kemaonensis is mostly restricted to areas >> of Uttarakhand and eastwards. >> I am uploading two photographs instead of one, to bring out the >> feature of a very long Perianth tube. >> >> 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]. > 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. > -- 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.
