---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Darshan Kokate <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 17:37 Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:401646] Pteridaceae week 7/10/21 To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]>
Thanks Gargji was busy with thesis writing to be submitted next month , Thanks Chrisji i will post clear photos . regards On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 6:13 AM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot, Chris ji > > -- > With regards, > J. M. Garg > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins <> > Date: Fri, 8 Oct, 2021, 1:17 am > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:401646] Pteridaceae week 7/10/21 > To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > > > No it is not P. biaurita at all! Entirely different. In P. biaurita > the bases of the pinnules are much more deeply joined together, so the base > of the interpinnular sinus is several mm or more above the pinna-midrib. > But in this species you can see the pinnules are cut down to the > pinna-costa. Also the ultimate segments in P. biaurita are not so narrow. > Lowest veinlets anastomose in biaurita, not in this species. > > The many very narrow pinnules show it to be P. blumeana - and as the photo > is out of focus and shows the wrong surface (top surface is needed for the > compound Pteris species) and one can't see the pinnule-apices either - it > is something the collector can do to confirm it as P. blumeana. > > 1. There should be long thin white setae on the segment-midribs > (pinnule-midribs) on their top surface - though if the specimen is dipped > in alcohol, they are easily deciduous. > > 2. The tips of the ultimate segments (pinnules) should be non-mucronate, > just rounded (sometimes very slightly sub-mucronate, but not usually). > > P. blumeana is quite common in the hills of South India, and not usually > at very high altitude, lower in the E. Himalaya, too. It has usually been > misidentified as P. aspericaulis, which latter does not occur in peninsular > India. > > All the best, > Chris Fraser-Jenkins, Portugal. > > > > On Thursday, 7 October 2021, 17:37:29 BST, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Welcome, Darshan ji, after a long time. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: *Darshan Kokate* <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 19:26 > Subject: [efloraofindia:401646] Pteridaceae week 7/10/21 > To: <[email protected]> > > > Dear all attaching images of Pteridophyte-Pteris biaurita from Nashik for > validation please validate. > Regards > Darshan Kokate > > -- > 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/CAHKsybpjXohKnhqATg7yp_48jNirixa0YzuA5CBuuYtRA1%2Brew%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAHKsybpjXohKnhqATg7yp_48jNirixa0YzuA5CBuuYtRA1%2Brew%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > -- With regards, J.M.Garg -- 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%2BiuSFCa6OofEiBmARR_cz_G3HRLvPrYGEHDOa%3D0xC2yAiUX6g%40mail.gmail.com.
