---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ashwini Bhatia" <[email protected]> Date: 22 Oct 2016 9:18 am Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:254434] Re: Clematis Buchananiana ABJAN01/09 To: "C CHADWELL" <[email protected]> Cc: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>, "Saroj Kasaju" <[email protected]>
Dear Chris, I have also followed your detailed comments on this. For long I had thought species here to be *C. connata* but following ID keys by Col. Collett and Polunin & Stainton, I convinced myself that the flowers here are *C. buchananiana*. I am listing my reasons; Collett; Stems faintly grooved, flowers not ribbed……*C. connata* Stems grooved, *flowers ribbed*……*C. buchananiana* Stainton & Polunin; Leaf-stalks fused together at the node often into a large flat disc, petals not ribbed, achenes silky-haired……*C. connata* Leaf-bases more or less united round stem,* flowers sweet-scented, petals ribbed,* achenes woolly-haired…..*C. buchananiana* The flowers on our plants are definitely sweet-scented and ribbed. That should place our plants under *C. buchananiana*. However, the leaf-stalks are jointed mostly into a small flat disc (on the many plants I have photographed I did not find a ‘large’ disc forming). To my untrained eyes achenes don’t appear to have silky hair, more woolly-haired. Flora of Chamba and Flora of Kullu list both species to be common in their respective areas. These are my reasons to conclude the ID but I am willing to learn. Please advise. Thanks and regards, Ashwini On 22 Oct 2016, at 08:55, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: 22 Oct 2016 7:11 am Subject: [efloraofindia:254434] Re: Clematis Buchananiana ABJAN01/09 To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Cc: > Yes, this plant comes within* Clematis connata* (there is a 'connate' base, though not as pronounced as in some variants). Definitely not *> C.buchananiana*. > > Please can someone send in some fresh images of this species or look amongst their past photos to see if they have the real thing. > > On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 2:41:27 PM UTC, ashwini wrote: >> >> This climber with fragrant cream colour flowers is quite common here. I found one still in flower today and brought it home to have a closer look. I have always assumed it to be* C. connata* but after studying my sample today think it to be* C. buchananiana*. The flowers are ribbed and so are the stalks. Flowers, filaments and stalks are hairy. Please advise. >> >> Clematis buchananiana—Fragrant Chinese Clematis >> Near Dal Lake, Dharamshala Cantt. HP >> 1800m >> 17 January 2016. >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
