Gurcharan Sir i remember you were so happy when we found this.. Superb picture :)
On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 8:36:22 PM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh 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.
