Thank you Garg Sir, thanks to Santhan Ji. I have developed a doubt if we have any *N. rubra* in our database at all, in fact none of the posts shows red flowers, all are shades of pink, only the one by Balkar Sir <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/indiantreepix/JdflalC07Kg/FkzRNND-8s0J> may be called close to red (anthers only). Regards
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:49 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ponnutheerthagiri Santhan <[email protected]> > Date: 20 November 2014 17:46 > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:205642] Hooghly : Nymphaea lotus var. > pubescens (Willd.) Hook. f. & Thomson > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > *Nymphaea* *rubra* Roxb. ex Andrews > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:29 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> This needs some further investigation. N. pubescens is characterised >> by sharply dentate leaves (which it has) and pubescent leaf under surface >> (it is glabrous here). Can you check with original description of N. rubra >> for leaf under surface. >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> >> Thank you Sir, i have also noted the point (leaf under surface), that is >> why i followed the FoC where the site informs, "cultivated forms of var. >> *pubescence* with red flowers, originating from India....", thinking >> that cultivated forms may have variable character (s). >> However, Flora Indica records - >> 1) *N. rubra* R. : Leaves sub-orbicular, margins sharply >> sinuate-toothed, downy underneath. Flowers red...... A native of India. It >> flowers during the rainy season, In Bengal there is a smaller rose coloured >> variety (differs in numbers of stamens & stigma rays). >> 2) *N. lotus* Willd.. 2. 1153 : Leaves orbicularly peltate, sharply >> sinuate toothed, downy underneath..... It differs from *N. rubra* in the >> colour of the flowers only. There is a beautiful rare variety with pink >> coloured flowers..... the white sorts is found common in pools,... it >> flowers more or less the whole year...... >> 3) *N. versicolor* R. : Leaves oval, peltate, repand-dentate.... A >> native of Bengal, ...two varieties, ...one pure white and the other pink of >> various shades. >> Compared to above entry by Haines :- >> *N. lotus* L. : Leaves usually pubescent beneath.... (two var.) *lotus* >> proper >> and *rubra*. >> Compared to above the author(s) of http://archive.lib.cmu.ac. >> th/full/T/2008/biol0708wl_ch3.pdf informs (in Thailand) leaves of *N. >> rubra* Roxb. ex Salisb. orbicular, dark reddish both above and below, >> becoming greenish above with age, below pubescent; veins about 9 pairs.... >> Attached here larger photographs for your perusal. >> Thank you very much for taking care. >> Regards >> >> Suarjit >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: surajit koley <[email protected]> >> Date: 8 November 2014 23:01 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:205642] Hooghly : Nymphaea lotus var. pubescens >> (Willd.) Hook. f. & Thomson >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> >> >> I have used the name as found in FoC. 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