Thank you Anil Thakur ji and Ushadi. I agree with you Ushadi, the paper is excellent and cleared many doubts in my mind.
With warm regards, Ashwini > On 29 Apr 2019, at 18:48, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Mr Swamy. > > On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 15:31, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 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.
