Beautiful upload with narration ! On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 11:08:47 PM UTC+5:30 Ashutosh Sharma wrote:
> Dear members, > > Here's a new addition to eFloraofIndia website > > *Berberis chitria* Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. > Family - Berberidaceae > > Photographed in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh > Elevation - 2100 metres > Flowering - May to June & Fruiting - September > > This species (*B. chitria*) is not uncommon in Western Himalayas and > surprisingly some of the images of this sp. are already present on our > website but are misidentified under page *Berberis aristata *DC., which > is a quite different species and can be distinguished easily from *B. > chitria* based on the below provided key. > > *Berberis chitria* is characterized by loosely corymbose-paniculate > inflorescence, with some basal flowers usually born in group of three, dark > reddish-brown young shoot/branch & peduncle and having oblong-ellipsoid red > to brownish ripened berries. > While *Berberis aristata *is characterized by 8 - 25 flowered raceme > inflorescence having no flowers in the group of three, young branch & > peduncle brownish - green never red and fruit ovoid to oblong-ovoid, bright > red to slightly pruinose blue berries. > By tomorrow I will try to comment individually on earlier misidentified > posts of *B. chitria* present on our website. > > Thanks! > With best regards > Ashutosh Sharma > -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/f157bbc5-29bb-4e5c-99d0-bce5d5e1484an%40googlegroups.com.
