Reply from Tabish ji: "So the conclusion is that* Impatiens pradhanii* H.Hara is an accepted name. I wanted to put this red-spotted yellow balsam as Impatiens pradhanii long back, but the taxonomy sites put it as synonym of I. bicornuta. I think I will follow C. Grey-Wilson, Kew Bulletin, Vol. 44, No. 1. (1989), pp. 61-66, and put this yellow species as *Impatiens pradhanii* H.Hara. Best wishes Tabish"
On 1 August 2017 at 16:50, Wojciech Adamowski <[email protected]> wrote: > I am attaching two papers for your information. > Opinions of both authors differ somewhat and as I never saw species of > this group by myself, I am unable to decide who is right. > Best regards Wojciech > > > 12:09 wtorek, 2017-8-1, Saroj Kasaju <[email protected]> napisał(a): > > > > > Thank you Mr. Adamowski . > > Pasting image from Flowers of India for reference please . > > Horned Balsam > [image: Foto info] > [image: Horned Balsam] > <http://www.flowersofindia.net/Scripts/rec_form.php> > [image: P] [image: N]ative [image: Herb] [image: elliptic] *Photo:* Subhasis > Roy*Common name:* Horned Balsam • Nepali: राजा बाबु Raja bubu > *Botanical name:* Impatiens bicornuta *Family:* Balsaminaceae (Balsam > family) > *Synonyms:* Impatiens pradhanii H.Hara > ------------------------------ > Horned Balsam is a perennial herb with a very thick rootstock, similar in > general appearance to *Impatiens bicornuta*. Stem is robust, fleshy, > hairless, branched. Leaves alternate, crowded at upper part; leaf-stalk 2-7 > cm; leaf blade elliptic or elliptic-lanceshaped, 7-15 x 4-6.5 cm, > membranous, both surfaces hairless or sparsely pilose, bristly at base, > lateral veins 10-12 pairs, base wedge-shaped, margin coarsely rounded > toothed, tip tapering, falling off. Flowers are crowded in leaf axils, in > many flowered racemes. Inflorescence are rather stouter. > Flower-cluster-stalk 3-8-10-5 cm long (up to 28 cm long including the > axis), hairless. Flower-stalks are 12-19 mm long. Flowers are yellow > flushed and veined with brownish-violet or purplish-brown, generally > unspotted. Lower sepal is sac-like, 11-13 mm long, 16-19 mm deep, with a > slender pointed tip 1-5-2 mm long, strongly incurved into a straight or > incurved spur 3-4 mm long. Lateral united petals 28-32 mm long. Capsule is > cylindrical, seeds 8 or 9, almost cylindric, shiny. Horned Balsam is found > in the Himalayas, in Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, > Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Nepal, at altitudes of 2400-2800 m. > > Thank you. > > Saroj Kasaju > > On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 5:47 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Wojciech ji. > > On 31-Jul-2017 6:31 PM, "Wojciech Adamowski" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I suppose this is Impatiens bicornuta, as it has rather long S-shaped spur. > Other species of this group grow in other parts of western and central > Himalaya. > Compare > Grey-Wilson C. 1989. Impatiens bicornuta and its allies. Studies in > Balsaminaceae: 7. Kew Bull. 44,1: 61-66. > Best regards Wojciech > > > 16:40 wtorek, 2017-7-25, Saroj Kasaju <[email protected]> napisał(a): > > > Dear Members, > > Location: Shivapuri National Park, Nepal > Altitude: 7500 ft. > Date: 22 July 2017 > > Thank you. > > Saroj Kasaju > > > > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. 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- around 2800 members & 2,65,000 messages on 31.3.17) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 12,000 species & 2,50,000 images). 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. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
