Gangopadhyay & Chakrabarty (1993) reduced *Combretum flagrocarpus *C.B. Clarke to a variety of *C. wallichii *DC. However, Chakrabarty & Chauhan (J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 28: 126-127. 2004) wrote: "Gangopadhyay & Chakrabarty (1993, 1997) applied a rather wide concept while treating *C. wallichii *by reducing four well established species viz. *C. flagrocarpum *Clarke, *C. griffithii *Heurck & Mull.Arg., *C. porterianum *(Wall. ex C.B. Clarke) Craib and *C. yunnanense *Exell as its varieties. They also proposed a new variety, var. *deciduum , *under *C. wallichii. *It appears that the superficially similar foliage and the difficulty in identifying the incomplete materials of the taxa under discussion possibly prompted Gangopadhyay & Chakrabarty to make such drastic reductions. However, the present studies reveal that *C. wallichii *in its present state (i.e. sensu Gangopadhyay & Chakrabarty, 1993) represents a heterogeneous assemblage and in fact six closely related species are involved in it rather than varieties with clear-cut differences from each another without any intergradations. Hence it seems appropriate and convenient to remove all the varieties from *C. wallichii *and reinstate or raise them to specific ranks, following the traditional treatments...." Here, Chakrabarty & Chauhan (2004) then reinstated *Combretum flagrocarpum *C.B. Clarke and clarified that it can be distinguished from *C. wallichii *in being pubescent and in the absence of tufts of yellow hairs or domatia on the lower nerve-axils on the undersurface of the leaves. Now the present images show dense linear-subulate persistent processes on the main body of the fruits which point to *C. wallichii *as well as *C. flagrocarpum. *However, as the nature of pubescence is not clear in the images (whether pubescent or glabrous) as well as whether the lower surface of the leaves bearing domatia in the lower nerve axils. In any case, in its present concept, *Combretum wallichii *is endemic to Nepal and *C. flagrocarpum * is distributed in Bhutan, NE India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
*Conclusion: Combretum flagrocarpus* C.B. Clarke. Best regards. On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 10:20 AM M Sawmliana <[email protected]> wrote: > Location : Samthang, Mizoram > Date : 02-10-2018 > Habit : Large straggling shrub > Habitat : Wild > > With regards, > M.Sawmliana > > -- > 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.
