Well! Thank you Saroj Kasaju On 31 Jan 2017 23:35, "C CHADWELL" <[email protected]> wrote:
I am STILL waiting to hear from J.Fryer. As I expected it would take MONTHS for her to comment about the assorted images I sent of Cotoneasters posted on eFI. UNTIL we hear (I will share her findings) it would be UNWISE for me to say much, beyond to advise once again that in MOST cases, what is currently understood to be the TRUE Cotoneaster microphyllus is NOT what MOST people think it is! According to 'Cotoneasters' Fryer & Hylmo (2009) C.microphyllus Wallich ex Lindley is restricted to Nepal. The TYPE specimen was collected FOR (but not BY) Wallich who was NOT permitted to venture beyond the Kathmandu during his visit(s). It was found from the alpine zone of Gosainkund. A VERY QUICK look at the plate and description in this book suggests the specimen you photographed may well NOT be C.microphyllus. I shall be happy to send by CD (Jeanette does not have e-mail but IS worth the trouble) these images PLUS others sent in SINCE the last lot were sent. Even if I hear from Jeanette tomorrow, once again, a wait of months is likely to required. PATIENCE is required. For the time being it would, in my opinion, be POINTLESS, for anyone to SPECULATE further. Thus put it as Cotoneaster sp. AWAITING DETERMINATION. IF there is a rival SPECIALIST in the genus, who can comment further, sooner than that, then fine. Best Wishes, Chris Chadwell 81 Parlaunt Road SLOUGH SL3 8BE UK www.shpa.org.uk ------------------------------ *From:* Saroj Kasaju <[email protected]> *To:* J.M. Garg <[email protected]> *Cc:* C CHADWELL <[email protected]>; efloraofindia < [email protected]> *Sent:* Tuesday, 31 January 2017, 15:45 *Subject:* [efloraofindia:262957] Re: Cotoneaster microphyllus 31 January 2017 Same plant ! Would it help to validate ID ? Thank you. Saroj Kasaju On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:24 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks, Chadwell ji On 2 Nov 2016 3:56 am, "chrischadwell261@btinternet. com <[email protected]>" <chrischadwell261@btinternet. com <[email protected]>> wrote: I am beginning a check on Cotoneasters posted on this site. Unfortunately, I suspect a majority are misidentified. Will be sending available images to Jeanette Fryer (on a CD she does not use e-mail). She was co-author with the late Bertil Hylmo of 'Cotoneasters' (2009) - the most knowledgeable person on the genus. She is always busy with other identification tasks so will certainly take weeks perhaps months before we hear but worth the wait. Please note her comments: "*Klotz included within C.microphyllus a number of taxa from a wide area ranging from W.Himalaya, Kumaon, through to eastern Tibet and the provinces of Yunnan & Sichuan but in its strictest sense C.microphyllus has only been recorded from Nepal. More research is desperately needed.*" I hope her determinations (accurate identifications) will encourage members to take a greater interest in this neglected genus, photographing more species. There is every possibility of locating species new to science within this genus. *It makes sense, when those with specialist knowledge are available to name material to take full advantage. The present situation with the naming of Cotoneaters in Indian herbaria is in need of improvement. Many specimens are very old and/or in poor condition, of a scrappy nature in the first place.* On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 1:48:05 PM UTC+1, Saroj Kumar Kasaju wrote: Dear Mr. Garg, Sharing some pics of C. microphyllus shit on 8 July 2016 at Nagarkot Nepal at 7000 ft . Thank you. Saroj Kasaju -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ topic/indiantreepix/OArxQiwM5qU/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
