I don't have my literature here in USA but looking at Tropicos, there combinations under G. mascatense were proposed as early as 1976 by Raizada in Suppl. Duthie's Fl. Upper Gangetic Plain 4: 36, but I don't find any reference merging G. ocellatum proper under G. mascatense. It would be interesting to look up treatment in Flora of India Series, published after Raizada.
http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Geranium+mascatense 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 Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 8:43 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > *There seems to be different interpretations of Geranium mascatense and > G.ocellatum. This specimen does not show gaps between petals as is usually > the case in photos of plants of G.mascatense in the Gulf - see below.* > > 'The Plant List' gives G.ocellatum as a synonym of the former. Whereas > Nasir in 'Flora of Pakistan' separates the two. Stewart does not list > G,mascatense > at all but has *G.ocellatum* var. *himalaicum* as common from 300-1800m. > Nasir, on the other hand, says that G.mascatense is only sparingly recorded > from Pakistan and then only in Baluchistan. > > G.mascatense is recorded from Africa and the Gulf - so Baluchistan fits OK > with this. Collet had G.ocellatum in hill districts of N.India from same > altitudes as Stewart. IF they constitute separate species, I find it > somewhat surprising to have G.mascatense in the Himalayan foothills. > > I do not know on whose authority G.ocellatum has been sunk into > G.mascatense. According to Nasir the species are very close but > G.mascatense has puberulous mericarps - translating that into English: in > Geranium the dry fruits consists of 5 'mericarps' each with a seed, which > may be explosively dispersed though sometimes remains inside) the > 'puberulous' part means downy with very short soft hairs. *So clearly, > unless one can observe the fruits of a geranium this characteristic cannot > be ascertained. No doubt Nasir knew of other differences.* > > > *Taking a quick look at the images for G.mascastense available on the > internet, most show marked gaps between the petals (as do the images taken > in Muscat in the posting above this) compared with images of specimens from > the foothills of the NW Himalaya (incl. the one near Chakki) which may > constitute sufficient to justify them as separate taxa but without careful > study of the whole plants cannot speculate if that is sufficient (or a > consistent difference) to justify separation as varieties, subspecies or at > the species level but the geographic/altitudinal/climatic differences may > be of significance.* > > *Cannot comment further at this stage.* > > On Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 8:41:59 AM UTC, Nidhan Singh wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> This beautiful *Geranium*..having deep coloured centre of corolla was >> also encountered during my recent visit to Morni Hills..I hope this should >> be *Geranium mascatense Boiss.* >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dr. Nidhan Singh >> Assistant Professor >> Department of Botany >> I.B. (PG) College >> Panipat-132103 Haryana >> Ph.: 09416371227 >> > -- > 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.
