Gentiana are difficult to identify. Revision of the family in Northwest Himalaya by Dr Sunita Agrawal (Garg) may be found useful. If someone has, it will help.
On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 9:12:55 PM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > > Dear members > I am repeating this mail of > > This Gentiana which was flowering very commonly in Gulmarg and Khillenmarg > in May perhaps needs some critical study and could belong to any of the > three species characterised by fimbriate corolla and placed in a distinct > genus Qaisera in Flora of Pakistan. > This plant has often been reported as Gentiana carinata, and as > common in Gulmarg and Khillenmarg, even by Blatter, and perhaps confusion > has been comounded by Flowers of Himalayas where it is identified as G. > carinata. > Let us first look at the key in Flora of Pakistan > > > 1Accessary lobes or plicae equal in size to the lobes, thus giving an > impression of corolla being 10-partite 3 Qaisera coronata > <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250093030> > +Accessary > lobes or plicae not equal in size to the corolla lobes, corolla appears to > be 5-partite (2) > <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=314809#KEY-1-2> > 2 (1) > <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=314809#KEY-1-1> > Inflorescence > laxly arranged few flowered cyme. Leaves lanceolate 1 Qaisera carinata > <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250093027> > +Inflorescence > densely cl ustered cyme. Leaves ovate 2 Qaisera hugelii > <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250093028> > > > To me corolla lobes and plicae appear almost of the same size (or latter > slightly shorter) and I would have gone for G. coronata but leaves come in > the way as they should be lanceolate with acute tip whereas they are > clearly obovate-spatulate in our specimens. > > Assuming that plicae are shorter than lobes, then placing in G. carinata > would face same problem of leaf shape, more so if we look at the following > net images where plicae are distinctly smaller and flower much different.: > > http://www.gentians.be/index.php?page=plant_portraits&pic=78 > > http://www.alpines.be/central-nepal/#!modal-window[gallery]/21/ > > Although following image has larger plicae > > http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~cet85270/02f177.html > > If we accept that our plant has smaller plicae, then I hope G. hugelii is > the perfect match with upper leaves obovate, closely placed, rounded at > apex, recurved and slightly mucronate at apex, and distinctly carinate on > lower side along midvein, and more so flowers are clustered. > > May be you can have a better interpretation. > This was subsequently posted as G. hugelii and is displayed on Flowers of > India > > http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Hugel's%20Gentian.html > > -- > > > > -- > 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/d/optout.
