Garg Sir Can you please provide, in our database, the exact BSI list of Indian *Datura*, all species and their synonyms?
On what basis this site claims - *"Datura metel* of India resembles this plant" <http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/Plants%20of%20Upper%20Newport%20Bay%20(Robert%20De%20Ruff)/Solanaceae/Datura%20wrightii.htm> ? Thank you Regards surajit On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:17 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > efi page on Datura inoxia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/s/solanaceae/datura/datura-innoxia> > > I think as per Datura > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/s/solanaceae/datura>, > Datura wrightii is not here in India.- from me > > > Perhaps the difference lies in the distribution! Or maybe in claims :- > > 1. *Datura meteloides* Dunal (see FoI > <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sacred%20Datura.html>) > is ... actually a syn of *D. inoxia* Mill., a Mexican plant having > narrower flower with 10 teeth - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_wrightii#Other_names > 2. *D. wrightii* Regel .... is conspecific with *inoxia* - > http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=22389 > 3. a variety or ssp. as in > http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=2622 or > in http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=dawr2 > > Please wait for inputs from US. > Thanks and regards > > Suarjit > > You asked this question about 8 months ago! I responded without knowing > anything. Here is the answer - > > - > > http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Solanaceae%20species/key/Australian%20Solanaceae%20species/Media/Html/Datura_wrightii.htm > - > > http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Solanaceae%20species/key/Australian%20Solanaceae%20species/Media/Html/Datura_inoxia.htm > > The above links tell me that unless a whole population is studied it is > impossible to differentiate the two species. Please also check > http://wnmu.edu/academic/nspages/gilaflora/datura_wrightii.html. > Unfortunately the paper http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BT9760415 is > not freely available. > Thank you > Regards > surajit > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> > Date: 1 May 2014 at 01:31 > Subject: [efloraofindia:187087] Convolvulaceae for ID (a) > To: [email protected] > > > Datura innoxia or Datura wrightii? > How to differentiate between both? > > Bangalore, 28th April 2014. > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of > Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > 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 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.

