Thank you Dr Bhatt. Are all of these the same species? Regards, Ashwini
On 03-Apr-2015, at 12:25 pm, Dr V P Bhatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Viola canescens > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:36 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > Some earlier relevant feedback: > efi pages on Viola canescens, Viola indica, Viola pilosa & Viola odorata > Viola species in eFloraofindia (with details/ keys from published papers/ > regional floras/ FRLHT/ FOI/ Biotik/ efloras/ books etc., where ever > available) > One can check the keys at Species with description & keys in Flora of > Pakistan : > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > Date: 20 March 2015 at 20:36 > Subject: [efloraofindia:218506] Viola confusa?/ABMAR21 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > Cc: Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> > > > Violas are leaving me perplexed. After communicating with Anurag last night, > I decided to bring the different flowers home and study them together. The > only new key I have found is that the lighter (whiter) violas have leaves > that are blunt at the apex, have the lower petal with dark veins the > smallest, and the stalk and centre of the flower are hairy. Now, another > darker flower of a similar size matches these keys too making me suspect it > could be a variant of the same species but there are several of these on the > slopes. The third in our sample is the largest in size, has a large lower > petal, is darker violet, has virtually no hair, and has pointed leaves. > > My guess is the following; > > The whiter flower with blunt leaves is Viola canescens. > The darker flower with similar characteristics is either the same or V. > pilosa or a hybrid. > The largest flower with a large lower petal could again be V. indica (but has > no sweet smell)V. pilosa or V. odorata (but odorata has blunt leaves) > > Of course these can be completely different from my assumptions too. My main > reference is Flowers of the Himalaya by O. Polunin and A. Stainton. I also > looked up flowersofindia.net (which is now down as reported by Ushadi) and > searched for Viola species on the internet. > > I leave you with the following images for your expert counsel. > > > Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP > 1750m > 20 March 2015 > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > Please note the leaf shapes and the lower petals in the first two pictures. > <_MG_0182_20March15.jpg><_MG_0188_20March15.jpg> > <_MG_0237_20March15.jpg> > > This is the same flower as in the second picture. > <_MG_0204_20March15.jpg> > > Similar flowers of different shades; > <_MG_0211_20March15.jpg><_MG_0217_20March15.jpg> > > The flower from the first photo; > <_MG_0218_20March15.jpg> > > All together. The one on the right is the largest in size but doesn't appear > so because of withering slightly. While the left tow have their lower lip > pointing up, this one has its lip which is clearly larger than the other two > pointing left. > <_MG_0246_20March15.jpg> > > The two similar ones with different shade; > > <PICT0329_20March15.jpg><PICT0337_20March15.jpg> > > -- > 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' > The whole world uses my Image Resource 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 (largest in the world- > more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia > website (with a species database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 > images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 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.
