Gurcharan ji ... very nice photos. Your in-depth study of the species makes the photos of this beautiful flowered plant very precious. Many thanks for sharing. Regards. Dinesh
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > Very nice pictures! Thanks Gurcharan ji for sharing this interest find. > > > Regards > > Vijayasankar > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Smita <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
