Thank you A. Floden Ji for this determination. I am taking it as *P. kansuense*. The new circumscriptions of various taxa under *P. verticillatum* are yet to be accepted universally. Though, the species *P. vericillatum* ( as understood in Indian context) is very different from it (*P. kansuense*) and occurs at relatively lower elevations (up to 3000 m) in this part of the Himalaya.
DSRawat, Pantnagar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr D.S. Rawat Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA *eflorapantnagar <https://sites.google.com/view/eflorapantnagar/home>* displaying flora of Pantnagar On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 8:10 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot, Floden ji > > -- > With regards, > J. M. Garg > > On Wed, 6 Jul, 2022, 6:20 pm afloden, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You can see in the middle image a bit of the scabrous stem. That, the >> three-whorled leaves, and pinkish flowers would lead me to call it P. >> kansuense. >> >> Aaron >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* J.M. Garg <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 6, 2022 5:37 AM >> *To:* efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* D.S Rawat <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Fwd: [efloraofindia:227724] Polygonatum geminiflorum? >> (Asparagaceae) for ID from Uttarakhand: July 2015_DSR_4 >> >> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >> Earlier feedback: >> That is definitely not geminiflorum which has the pubescent leaves and >> leaf margins, but so do the other verticillate species in the region. >> Under the current taxonomy this would fall under a very broad >> circumscription of verticillatum, but this is also wrong. I am about to >> publish a paper that explores the chloroplast genomes of the Polygonatum and >> the difference between the European true verticillatum and those from Asia. >> They are clearly different species, but so determining what name or names >> are applicable to those in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China is a little >> difficult so far based on morphology. Then their are the cytotype >> differences with some tetraploids, some diploid, and then two different >> base numbers of x=14 and 15. I think I have it mostly sorted out and maybe >> later this year this will have an appropriate name. >> Aaron Floden >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: *D.S Rawat* <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 at 16:59 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:227724] Polygonatum geminiflorum? (Asparagaceae) >> for ID from Uttarakhand: July 2015_DSR_4 >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >> >> >> I photographed this species from Vasudhara area (3300m asl), Badrinath >> (Uttarakhand) in June 2015. It was growing among the boulders and reached a >> height of 50cm. I suspect it as *Polygonatum geminiflorum* Decne. Stem, >> nerves underside leaves and margin of leaves are puberulous. Stemens are >> inserted in the middle of corolla lobe and very small as compared to anther >> length. Style is as long as ovary. Other characters are visible in pics. >> >> Please suggest correct ID. >> >> >> >> DSRawat Pantnagar >> Dr D.S.Rawat >> Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & >> Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> 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/CAP5oboK9D3aWg7uRH9js%2BcEX0u0fCr9y-68zFR7%2BCW%2BxoQ6RRQ%40mail.gmail.com.
