I requested a pdf from the author its a great exhaustive scholarly taxonomic review with geographic distribution, dissection and specimen drawings , scanning electron microscopy. half of the botanical taxonomy lingo is beyond my quick perusal, but diagnostic features of all 7 species they describe is crystal clear
the last of the 7 in the appears to be close to your case Ashwini, thank you for this fantastic case, photos and providing the paper citation, so i could request the author reprint. You out did yourself Usha di =========== On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 6:48 PM Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Mr Swamy. > > On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 15:31, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have been looking at our black-eyed geraniums again. Following up on >> the earlier discussion on the group, where it was decided that the flowers >> found in our Himalayan region were *G. ocellatum* and not *G. mascatense*, >> I looked at the mericarps and am attaching the results. Also there is an >> excellent paper on the taxonomic revision here >> <https://doi.org/10.1600/036364416X691812>. (I had to request a friend >> to get it for me as I did not have the access and cannot share it with the >> group). Following the keys listed in the paper and matching them with our >> plants, I have no doubt that *the species here is G. ocellatum*. >> >> A couple of additional visual cues pointing to the species are reddish >> stipules, a mucro-like projection on the petals and 5 leaf-segments. The >> mericarps are not only without hair but also differ in their ribbed design >> (on ocellatum there are no interconnecting ribs between the parallel ones). >> >> *Geranium ocellatum* >> Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP >> 1750m approx. >> 06, 20-27 April 2019. >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> >> -- > 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.
