Further analysing detailed description:
*Vincetoxicum glaucum* (Wall. ex Wight) Rech. f. *Vincetoxicum kenouriense* (Wight) Wight Undershrubs, *up to 40 cm tall.* *Stem striate, *pubescent all around, *internodes **1–6.8 cm long.* Leaves petiolate; petioles 3–11 mm long, pubescent all around; *lamina **different shaped: narrowly ovate, oblong-ovate, elliptic ovate, lanceolate-ovate*, 4–9.2 × 1.3–3.8 cm; margins smooth; *apex acute to obtuse or sometimes mucronulate; base round or cuneate; veins visible on both surfaces, *secondary veins 8–12 on each side of midvein; adaxial surface sub-glabrous, adaxial veins densely pubescent; abaxial surface glabrous to sub-glabrous, abaxial veins especially midrib pubescent; margins pubescent. Inflorescences sessile; bracts linear, ciliate; sepals tapering to acute apices, 1.5 mm long with ciliate margins;* pedicels 1–3 mm long,* pubescent; calycine colleters 5, exceeding the corolla tube in length; *corolla green, *not twisted, corolla tube 1 mm long, *lobes tapering to pointed apex, *2 × 1 mm, *bearded within;* *corona lobes longer than **broad, 1 × 0.8 mm, *exceeding the length of the gynostegium, *base narrow, apex broad, **toothed, divergent;* staminal appendages obtuse; pollinaria deeply embedded in the gynostegium. *Follicles and seeds not seen.* Undershrubs*, up to 1 m tall.* Stem pubescent all around or along 2 dense lines, *inter-**nodes 2–13 cm long.* Leaves opposite; petioles 1–10 (–14) mm long, equally pubescent all around or sometimes denser along adaxial channel, *lamina strongly discolorous,* *nar**row to broadly ovate, *4–10 × 1.8–6.5 cm; *apex narrowly acute to very shortly acuminate; base round to sub-cordate to sub-truncate;* *venation including tertiary and quaternary veins prominent,* *more prominent and raised on abaxial surface,* secondary veins up to 14 on each side of midvein, trichomes absent on both surfaces, sometimes sparsely present on tertiary and quaternary veins, midrib and secondary veins densely pubescent on both surfaces, margins pubescent. Inflorescences mostly sessile, rarely both sessile and short-pedunculate inflorescences present on the same plant, peduncles up to 1.5 cm; bracts linear, up to 2 mm long, pubescent; *pedicels 2–8 (–10) mm long, *pubescent all around, sometimes pubescent along one or two longitudinal lines. *Flowers yellowish-green to green, *4–5 × 2–2.5 mm; sepals tapering to acute or narrowly acute apices, up to 2 mm long, margins sparsely ciliate, calycine colleters 5 or 10 per flower; corolla tube ca. 1 mm long,* lobes oblong with obtuse apices, *3–3.5 × 1–2 mm, *glabrous within or sparse caducous trichomes present;* *corona lobes long-triangular with acute apex, slightly **divergent,* ca. 1 × 0.8 mm, exceeding slightly the length of the gynostegium. *Follicles **fusiform, up to 7 × 1 cm, apex long-acuminate, surface glabrous, slightly striate.* Seeds brown, 6–7 × 3–3.5 mm, wings less than 1 mm broad; coma 2–3 mm long. * Endemic to eastern Himalayas including India andNepal and occurring at an elevation of over 2000 m.* Herbarium label on W. Dudgeon & L.A. Kenoyer 56 (MO) indicates its habitat to be open grassy places. * Endemic to a long geographic range in the Hindukush Himalayas from Bhutan in the east to Pakistan in the west.* The western limit of this spe- cies is district Swat (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province), Pakistan. * It occurs on higher eleva-tions between 1500 and 3000 m.* The habitats of the species are commonly the Himalayan moist temperate forests (evergreen forests of conifers between 1500 to 3000 m elevations), rarely subalpine or open alpine lands (above 3000 m). We collected it from open stony alpine slopes and stream side slopes in a V-shaped mountain valley. The as-ociated vegetation was either alpine herbs or conifers, and herbaceous to shrubby flora. In view, I feel it is *Vincetoxicum kenouriense* (Wight) Wight only. I have found *Vincetoxicum glaucum* (Wall. ex Wight) Rech. f. also in our observations, the post of which I will send to you, along with to others. On Sat, 3 Sept 2022 at 17:28, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Singh ji, > Pl. check the floral images at page 57 of the publication. > > On Sat, 3 Sept 2022 at 17:21, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes Garg ji, I saw your paper just now, which supports my conclusion of >> the above plant being V. glaucum, as according to the above paper and POWO >> V. canescens does not occur in our area. >> >> >> >> >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> https://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 5:07 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, Singh ji, >>> Pl. see 2021 publication: >>> Taxonomy of Vincetoxicum s.str. (Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae) from >>> southern Asia including three new species and resurrected names >>> <https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/62514/>- Sayed Afzal Shah, Amir >>> Sultan, Jun Wen, Zahid Ullah, Surat Un Nisa, Zhumei Ren, Muhammad Maqsood >>> Alam, Javed Iqbal, Abdul Samad Mumtaz - June 2021PhytoKeys 179(1):35-73 >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J. M. Garg >>> >>> On Sat, 3 Sep, 2022, 5:04 pm Gurcharan Singh, <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Both are reported from Kashmir >>>> V. hirundinaria: Corolla lobes glabrous within >>>> We see hairy here, which should be V. glaucum (Wall.) Rech.f. Flora of >>>> Pakistan treats it as synonym of V. canescens which according to POWO is a >>>> distinct species Native to East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Turkey >>>> V. glaucum according to POWO has distribution in Afghanistan, China >>>> South-Central, East Himalaya, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>>> Retired Associate Professor >>>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>>> https://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 3:34 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Taking it as *Vincetoxicum kenouriense* (Wight) Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. >>>>> Orient., pl. 1614. 1850 (syn: *Cynanchum kenouriense* Wight, Contr. >>>>> Bot. India 58. 1834.) as per Taxonomy of Vincetoxicum s.str. >>>>> (Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae) from southern Asia including three new >>>>> species and resurrected names >>>>> <https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/62514/>- Sayed Afzal Shah, >>>>> Amir Sultan, Jun Wen, Zahid Ullah, Surat Un Nisa, Zhumei Ren, Muhammad >>>>> Maqsood Alam, Javed Iqbal, Abdul Samad Mumtaz - June 2021PhytoKeys >>>>> 179(1):35-73 >>>>> It states "*Corolla* tube ca. 1 mm long, *lobes *oblong with obtuse >>>>> apices, 3–3.5 × 1–2 mm,* glabrous within or sparse caducous trichomes >>>>> present*" >>>>> Thanks to the authors for solving the puzzle. >>>>> >>>>> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>>>> From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> >>>>> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 14:26 >>>>> Subject: Identification required.- Location: Kulgam j & k. >>>>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >>>>> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>, Saroj >>>>> Kasaju <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Habit:Small herb. >>>>> Flowers :star shaped yellow coloured >>>>> Location:Kulgam j&k.- from Shakir ji >>>>> >>>>> *Vincetoxicum hirundinaria* Medik. >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> Saroj Kasaju >>>>> >>>>> We have Vincetoxicum canescens- Here in Kashmir as per >>>>> efloraofindia- from Shakir ji >>>>> >>>>> You have this sp. also in JK ! >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> Saroj Kasaju >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> With regards, >>>>> J.M.Garg >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> With regards, >>>>> J.M.Garg >>>>> >>>> > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > -- With regards, J.M.Garg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. 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