Thank you, Gurcharanji the other reply/diagnosis had me and the rest of us confused
You are an excellent taxonomist and a very good teacher of Botany I learned a lot And that Dr Rawat is a very good hiker, botanist and diagnostician.. usha di On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Flora of India, 1993 lists only one species O. endlicheri (Walp) Bennet & > Chandra growing in India (syn: O. polypetala (D Don) Hook.f as its basionym > Ranunculus popypetalus D. Don., 1834 is later homonym of R. polypetalus > Rafin, 1817). It also considers Indian O. glacialis not actual European > plant. > > Flora of China, however lists both from North India > > O. endlicheri: Leaves reniform with truncate to subcordate base, margin > crenate, petals usually 12 > > O. glaciatis: leaves ovate or elliptic, base cuneate, margin usually > entire, petals 12-19. > > > Looking these the plant is clearly O. endlicheri (syn: O. polypetala). > > > > 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 Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Ushadi Micromini < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> is there a key to differentiate the two? >> usha di >> >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Ushadi Micromini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> alpine beauty >>> usha di >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:22 PM, D.S Rawat < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> *Oxygraphis polypetala* (Raf.) Hook.f. et Thomson is one of the >>>> earliest blooming species in Alpine zones of the Himalaya. Flower buds >>>> formed in the last growing season enable this species to bloom so early; >>>> immediately after snow melt. >>>> >>>> DSRawat Pantnagar >>>> >>>> Dr D.S.Rawat >>>> Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture >>>> & Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Usha di >>> =========== >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- Usha di =========== -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
