*Impatiens violoides *Edgew. ex Hook.f. Thank you Saroj Kasaju On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 8:45:04 PM UTC+5:45 Wojciech wrote:
> This plant could be also I. violoides, described probably from nowadays > Uttarakhand, however description of this species is veeeeery short with no > information on colour of flowers and many other details. Below is original > description by Hooker: > "The only specimens which I have seen are very imperfect. One in the > Bentham Herbarium ha3 a ticket inscribed ' Impatiens Candida, Lindl., > near Junglung, alt. 8-9,000 ft.' I cannot find the localities named. /. > Candida, Lindl., is a very different plant, a white flowered state of /. > Roylei, Walp. The caphiform lip and absence of spur render /. violoides > easy of recognition." > So only clue is that I. violoides was recognized as white form of I. > glandulifera, but has less or more shallow lower sepal and lacks spur. > In the key there is "Capsules deflexed, racemes short or umbelliform > few-flowered" > what looks similar to this plant. > I can't find any picture of I. violoides, so all this is only my guess. > Best regards Wojciech > > > > 16:55 wtorek, 2014-10-7, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> napisał(a): > > > Forwarding again for Id assistance please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Kishanlal* <[email protected]> > Date: 7 October 2014 19:01 > Subject: Impatiens serrata > To: JM Garg <[email protected]> > > > Dear sir, > This impatiens has been shot from below Chansil Pass in > Shimla Distt.The reply of Mr Wojciech is as under. > > > Your plant don't match exactly any of Impatiens known from Himachal > Pradesh (as far as I am able to check it). > There are some similarities to I. serrata as only non-spurred species in > this area, but at least some inflorescences of your plant are multiflowered. > You can try to contact Dr Pusalkar, who is working on the flora of > Uttarakhand. His paper dealing with three new species of Impatiens from > western Himalaya was posted on e-flora of India e-group. > Best regards Wojciech > Best regards, > Krishan Lal > > > <http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> > > Get your own *FREE* website, *FREE* domain & *FREE* mobile app with > Company email. > *Know More >* > <http://track.rediff.com/click?url=___http://businessemail.rediff.com/email-ids-for-companies-with-less-than-50-employees?sc_cid=sign-1-10-13___&cmp=host&lnk=sign-1-10-13&nsrv1=host> > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > 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. > 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 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of > Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > 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/07a737c5-1719-4dff-8cdb-3fea4fcdc621n%40googlegroups.com.
