Thanks Sukla ji for your efforts I happened to accompany Prof. A. K. Skvortsov for nearly one week when he along with Dr. (Mrs) Pruskovikova (I don't know whether I got her spellings right) visited Kashmir in early seventees (when I was working for my Ph.D. Some of the identifications were done by him (unless I mixed up some specimens). The nomenclature status of several plants has changed since then.
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 Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Sukla Chanda <[email protected]> wrote: > Sir, I found the image of the type specimen of S. excelsa ( > http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/specimen.cfm?SpecimenPK=96959&idThumb=297532&SpecimenSequenz=1&loan=0) > which is really a good specimen where leaf and catkin can be studied very > well. The shape of the leaf of your specimen (which is lanceolate) little > differ from the type (where the leaves are broadly elliptic-lanceolate). > Moreover the apexes of your leaves are mostly long acuminate, but in the > others it is acuminate and even acute in few leaves. After maximum zooming > of your images the character of leaf margin and venation pattern are not > enough clear. So I’m unable to match with the type specimen. The single > catkin present in your first image is also very obscure that cannot be > understandable. > > > > Thanks, > Sukla > ------------------------------------------------ > Sukla Chanda, PhD > Science & Education, > The Field Museum, Chicago IL. > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Salix excelsa is a cultivated species called as Crack willow >> >> Dr Satish Phadke >> >> >> On 7 February 2014 10:29, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Salix excelsa S. G. Gmelin >>> >>> Closely similar to S. fragilis, photographed Kashmir University campus, >>> pl. validate. >>> >>> 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.
