As both species are quite confusing, these key features are not visible in images of Viola canescens at FOI <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Himalayan%20White%20Violet.html> . I have doubts about correctness of these images in FOI.
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 08:27, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). 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