But description in the publication says *Ray florets a few, shortly radiate for *Duhaldea eupatorioides. Also see the image of it in the publication, which is closer to our images in eFI site. -- With regards, J. M. Garg
On Mon, 25 Dec, 2023, 22:03 Tabish, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Garg ji for the detailed comparison. > But I do not think the images at the eFI link > <https://efloraofindia.com/2021/06/17/duhaldea-eupatorioides/> correctly > represent the species Duhaldea eupatorioides. The flowers seem to have > almost no ray florets. I am attaching an image of Duhaldea eupatorioides > from this paper > <https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.282.1.7>. > Another paper summarizes Duhaldea eupatorioides as follows: > Notes: This species is similar to D. cuspidata, but differs in much > stouter habit, shorter and stouter petioles, more rigid leaves with much > reticulated nervation beneath and narrower ligules. > Comparing with the images of Duhaldea cuspida > <https://efloraofindia.com/2012/05/21/inula-cuspidata/>, I feel > Sawmliana's images fit the description of Duhaldea eupatorioides reasonably > well. > Tabish > ------------------------------------------- > <http://www.flowersofindia.net>www.flowersofindia.net > The waterhole of flower lovers > > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 1:25 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, Tabish ji, >> I do not think so. >> Pl. see >> https://efloraofindia.com/2021/06/17/duhaldea-eupatorioides/ >> >> Pl. see detailed description as given below: >> >> Description from Flora of China >> <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=250097799>: >> *Synotis cappa* (Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don) C. Jeffrey & Y. L. Chen >> >> >> *Duhaldea eupatorioides* (Wall. ex DC.) Anderb. as per The genus >> Duhaldea (Asteraceae) in India >> <https://rheedea.in/storages/submission/file/1479996550.pdf> (2020) >> >> Subshrubs or shrubby herbs, rhizomatous. *Stems erect, to 150 cm tall, >> often flexuous, densely lanate or arachnoid-tomentose, ± glabrescent when >> old,* simple or usually branching above in synflorescences, leafless in >> lower part at anthesis. >> >> *Leaves petiolate or sometimes subsessile; petiole to 10 mm, stout, >> densely tomentose, base often auriculate; *blade broadly to narrowly >> obovate-oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 10-28 × 4-8 cm, *papery, >> abaxially densely to sparsely fulvous pubescent on veins and densely to >> sparsely whitish tomentose, *sometimes ± glabrescent, adaxially shortly >> densely to sparsely pubescent and sometimes thinly white arachnoid to >> subglabrous, pinnately veined, *lateral veins 12-28, *arcuate-ascending, >> base attenuate, margin finely to coarsely mucronulate-serrate, apically >> acuminate. Upper leaves and leaves of branches lanceolate or >> linear-lanceolate, gradually smaller. >> >> *Capitula radiate, usually numerous, arranged in terminal and axillary >> usually 10-20-headed dense compound corymbs or thyrses;* peduncles 5-10 >> mm, densely tomentose, with a few linear or linear-subulate bracts. >> >> Involucres narrowly campanulate, 5-7 × 2-4 mm, calyculate; bracts of >> calyculus ca. 8, linear-lanceolate, 3-5 mm, apically acuminate; phyllaries >> 8-13, linear-lanceolate, ca. 1 mm wide, herbaceous, densely tomentose, >> margin narrowly scarious, apically obtuse to acute and puberulent. >> >> *Ray florets ca. 8; corolla tube ca. 2.5 mm; lamina yellow, ca. 3.5 × 1 >> mm, 4-veined, 3-denticulate*. Disk florets 11-17; corolla yellow, ca. 5 >> mm, with ca. 1.5 mm tube and funnelform limb; lobes ovate-oblong, ca. 1.5 >> mm, apically acute. Anthers ca. 2.5 mm; anther tails slightly exceeding >> antheropodia; appendages ovate-oblong; antheropodia rather slender, basally >> slightly dilated. Style branches ca. 1 mm, fringed with short papillae, >> terminal tuft not evident. Achenes ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Pappus white, ca. 5 >> mm. >> >> Fl. Oct-Jan. >> >> >> >> Forest margins, thickets, streamsides, meadows; 1500-2300 m. >> >> >> Guangxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Myanmar, Nepal, N >> Thailand]. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Stout shrubs, 1–3 m tall. >> *Stem pubescent, terete; branches brownish-purple.* >> >> >> *Leaves spirally arranged, rigid, leathery, *shortly petioled; lamina >> elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-acuminate, 5–25 × 1.5–7.5 cm, *coriaceous,* >> *irregularly toothed,* cuneate or rounded at base, *dark green above, >> scabrid, pale green below, pubescent, dense towards nerves, sometimes >> glandular, lateral nerves prominent, shorter, with much-reticulated >> nervation beneath.* >> >> >> >> Corymbs polycephalous.* Heads terminal or in upper axillary panicles;* >> capitula >> crowned with short peduncles, 0.5–1.0 cm in diam. >> >> >> Involucral bracts 2–4 × 0.5–1.0 mm long, 4-seriate, lax, imbricate, >> lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, brownish, villous to velutinous, sometimes >> glandular at tip. >> >> >> *Ray florets a few, shortly radiate. *Disc florets tubular, 5- toothed. >> Cypselae narrowly obovate–oblong, 1.5– 2.0 × 0.25–0.5 mm, yellowish brown, >> sparsely white pubescent, 8–10-ribbed. Pappus uniseriate, bristles 22–24, >> 4–5 mm long, cream-golden. >> >> >> >> >> Flowering and fruiting from August to February. >> >> Habitat: Grows on rocky slopes, between 1700– 1800 m elevations. >> >> Distribution: Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, >> Thailand and Vietnam. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 at 21:27, Tabish <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think it is not Duhaldea cuspidata because of Duhaldea cuspidata has >>> stalked leaves, and the leaves in this plant are virtually stalkless. >>> Synotis >>> cappa appears close but if you look carefully, in Synotis cappa the ray >>> florets are longer than the central disk of the flower-heads. In this plant >>> the ray florets are much shorter than the central disk. >>> I think it is *Duhaldea eupatorioides*. The structure of the >>> inflorescence and the leaves agree with the illustration attached here, and >>> to the description in this paper >>> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342591403_The_genus_Duhaldea_Asteraceae_in_India>. >>> >>> Tabish >>> >>> On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 4:02:25 PM UTC+5:30 J.M. Garg wrote: >>> >>>> Pl. see >>>> at *Synotis* *cappa* (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) C.Jeffrey & Y.L.Chen >>>> <https://efloraofindia.com/2020/12/11/synotis-cappa/> >>>> -- >>>> With regards, >>>> J. M. Garg >>>> >>>> On Mon, 11 Dec, 2023, 10:55 Mandru Ramesh Chowdary, < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Duhaldea cuspidata. >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, 10 Dec, 2023, 4:57 pm J.M. Garg, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> This appears more closer to images and details at *Synotis* *cappa* >>>>>> (Buch.-Ham. >>>>>> ex D.Don) C.Jeffrey & Y.L.Chen >>>>>> <https://efloraofindia.com/2020/12/11/synotis-cappa/> >>>>>> >>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>>>>> From: M Sawmliana <[email protected]> >>>>>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 23:29 >>>>>> Subject: [efloraofindia:312460] MS Dec,2018/09 Asteraceae (Duhaldea >>>>>> sp.?) for Id. >>>>>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Location : Tan, Mizoram >>>>>> Altitude : 1600 - 1,900 m. >>>>>> Date : 06-12-2018 >>>>>> Habit : Shrub >>>>>> Habitat : Wild >>>>>> >>>>>> With regards, >>>>>> M.Sawmliana >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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 https://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/CA%2BiuSFA7HhGG2YjG6qH8UJNqxsgETyX_wwQ8qs4dhSEK%3DE-ivw%40mail.gmail.com >>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFA7HhGG2YjG6qH8UJNqxsgETyX_wwQ8qs4dhSEK%3DE-ivw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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/CALNKF_XXKe%2BHUzyc3A6J3HQnYP41-F-b%3DpeHUWY8e3LAGGs6yA%40mail.gmail.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CALNKF_XXKe%2BHUzyc3A6J3HQnYP41-F-b%3DpeHUWY8e3LAGGs6yA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>> 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/58f6814a-2b42-489f-9729-024655242e60n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/58f6814a-2b42-489f-9729-024655242e60n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. 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