Forwarding for ID Distributed as Euphorbia sikkimensis ? <https://efloraofindia.com/2016/10/21/euphorbia-sikkimensis/> Group discussion at Euphorbia sikkimensis Boiss. (accepted name) (google.com) <https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/IX3oseJR-bA>
On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 7:12:18 PM UTC+5:30 Saroj Kumar Kasaju wrote: > Resurfacing for ID : Euphorbia sikkimensis Boiss. > <https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/IX3oseJR-bA/m/xCHufKpuAQAJ> > Thank you. > > Saroj Kasaju > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 5:44 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> Yes this is *Euphorbia sikkimensis* Boiss., characterised by the >> solitary terminal cyathium within the 3 pseudoumbel leaves. >> N. P. Balakrishnan >> >> *Yes, this appears close to E.sikkimensis but have you considered >> Euphorbia schillingii?* There is a photo in the 'Supplement' to 'Flowers >> of the Himalaya' (which was privately published & paid for by the late Adam >> Stainton, co-author of the main 'Flowers of the Himalaya') which was named >> provisionally as *Euphorbia *aff. *sikkimensis* - meaning "has >> affinities to", which comes very close to the specimen at Kalinchowk. I >> did once ask a member of staff at Kew their precise interpretation/usage of >> the term but never got a reply. Like so much, there is an element of >> interpretation involved. >> *Anyhow, in the description Stainton states, "the plant illustrated was >> photographed by Mr. A.Schilling in the Dudh Kosi valley of E.Nepal... it >> differs in **some respects from E.sikkimensis". At the end of the >> introduction to this book, the author noted (1997) that the specimen was >> about to be published as a new species, Euphorbia schillingii (please note >> Schilling was from the UK Royal Horticultural Society and helped establish >> The Royal Botanic Garden, Godawari, Nepal) A.Radcliffe-Smith. A principal >> distinction is that the fruits are warty, whereas the fruits of >> E.sikkimensis are smooth. Saroj's images are of immature fruits but I >> think I can detect developing warts? What do others think.* >> *E.schillingii has been recorded from Central & East Nepal. >> E.sikkimensis has been recorded from East Nepal to Bhutan and Tibet. But >> perhaps the distribution of both are not perfectly know due to >> similarities. There are herbarium specimens labelled as E.sikkimensis >> collected by Hooker in India at Kew which can be viewed on-line.* - from >> Chris Chadwell ji. >> >> *Euphorbia* is a big and difficult genus to me. >> What I am able to see in the plate of 'Flowers of the Himalaya: A >> supplement' (by A.Stainton) and referred by Chadwell Ji, that the cyathia >> are terminal but not solitary as the cyathia are surrounded by few bud like >> structures (*E. schillingii*). Such structures are not visible in the >> images by Saroj Ji. The specimens at Kew have little help as detailed >> structure can not be seen in them and the type of species are from the >> plant cultivated in Europe. >> DSRawat Pantnagar >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Saroj Kasaju <[email protected]> >> Date: 5 October 2016 at 20:51 >> Subject: Euphorbia sikkimensis Boiss. (accepted name) >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, "J.M. Garg" < >> [email protected]> >> >> >> Dear Members, >> >> Sharingnsome pictures I guess is >> *Euphorbia sikkimensis *Boiss. (accepted name) >> shot on the way to Kalinchowk Dlakha Nepal on >> 26 July 2014 at around 9000 ft. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Saroj Kasaju >> >> >> >> -- >> 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> 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/79702d8a-41d7-4516-a0a7-439327ae97d6n%40googlegroups.com.
