Pl. see Viola canescens <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/v/violaceae/viola/viola-canescens>. I think style is the best clue. *Here style is club shaped. Leaves are also not acuminate.*
As per keys in Flora of Pakistan <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=134607>: 13 (12) <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=134607#KEY-1-12> Stigma beaked. Ovary glabrous (14) <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=134607#KEY-1-14> + Stigma club shaped. Ovary hairy 2 Viola canescens <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200014339> 14 (13) <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=134607#KEY-1-13> Leaves acuminate. Sepals lanceolate, acute, ciliate-dentate 3 Viola pilosa <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200014403> + Leaves obtuse. Sepals ovate, obtuse, entire 1 Viola odorata <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200014395> On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 23:36, Tabish <[email protected]> wrote: > This type of Viola, with all sepals equal and with ciliate margins, I > would think it is > *Viola pilosa. * > * Tabish* > ------------------------------------------- > <http://www.flowersofindia.net>www.flowersofindia.net > The waterhole of flower lovers > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 6:24 PM Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This is the second species from Dharamshala which is still confusing. The >> flowers can be from pure white to deep mauve and vary in size from 1.5 to >> 2.2cm. Most are wider than long. >> >> The petals are of different shapes and sizes. The two uppermost are the >> broadest at ca. 7mm, the laterals are roughly 5mm wide (both about 13mm >> long). The lowest petal (or the uppermost if you consider resupination, but >> for clarity I am using the lowest) is the narrowest at 4mm and excluding >> the spur about 10mm long. The spur is cylindrical, white, and can be hooked >> or not and is 3mm long. >> >> The leaves are slightly paler underneath, hairy on both surfaces with >> scattered white hairs. The petiole is hairy and the stipules are laciniate >> (with long hair-like projections on both long edges). >> >> The pedicel projects beyond the leaves mostly and is covered on white >> hairs too. Sepals are lanceolate, equal and have hairy margins. >> >> The anthers are pale yellow, two with nectaries projecting into the spur. >> The nectaries are yellow-green, hairy and about 2mm long. >> >> The ovary is hairy at the top. The stigma appears truncated at lower >> magnification but up-close reveals a crater like perforation at the top of >> the club-shaped style. >> >> The seeds are yellow with dark purple warts on their surface. Elaiosomes >> are prominent. >> >> Depending on how we interpret this data, we could either believe this to >> be *Viola pilosa* or *Viola canescens*. All comments are welcome. >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> All photos taken between 1750 and 2200m in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. >> the flowering season is usually late February to June. A few plants can be >> found well into autumn too. >> >> >> >> >> -- 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- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than 2,50,000 images are directly displayed on 31.1.20). 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFDKQXFq%2B782yFAKqasH6FDA8BG6guwF4HH8krFBH%2BNQgg%40mail.gmail.com.
