This is from FOC description of Viola pilosa: "styles clavate, base slightly geniculate, gradually thickened upward; stigmas ± flat, not margined, very inconspicuously short beaked in front, with smaller stigma hole at tip of beak." best wishes Tabish
On Sun, 12 Apr, 2020, 8:38 AM J.M. Garg, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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