Its really wonderful that you got the opportunity to meet such a noble worker like Prof. Skvortsov. He is one of the pioneer taxonomist deals with amentiferous group. One of his student, now working at Kew Garden gifted me "Willows of Russia and Adjacent Countries" (translated version) of Skvortsov. Its such a wonderful book and I learn many things specially the phylogeny and evolution among Salix.
Thanks, Sukla ------------------------------------------------ Sukla Chanda, PhD Science & Education, The Field Museum, Chicago IL. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
