Confusion for lay person like me ! https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Impatiens$20bicornuta$20Wall.|sort:relevance/indiantreepix/NOWw9Z2SgDw/6yqyHwSyAQAJ ?????
Thank you. Saroj Kasaju On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 9:33 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
