Thanks a lot for resolving the issue finally. One of my biggest problem is, I dont get taxonomically satisfied so easily, and secondly, I dont start well if it is not an orchid. Pankaj
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Pankaj ji > What a coincidence. After reading your earlier mails I went through the > whole key starting from begining and imagine where I reached: > R. nephelogenes var. longicaulis, the variety with petals almost equalling > sepals. The description matched. I went back to Flora of British India India > and found Ranunculus longicaulis listed as a synonym of R. pulchellus > So following a more recent publication, Nudrat ji's plant is Ranunculus > nephelogenes var. longicaulis > > Thanks for your critical analysis which led me to rethink and research > further, > THIS IS ONE VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW INTERACTIONS ON THE GROUP CAN LEAD TO > FRUITFUL RESULTS. > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I am hesitant to agree with this. I am talking about your herbarium >> and not Nuds plant!! I still say, I may be wrong...... >> >> Key in flora of China says: >> >> Stems 15–20 cm; blades of basal leaves ovate, elliptic, or obovate, >> base broadly cuneate or cuneate, 1–3-denticulate on each side....R. >> pulchellus >> >> Blade of basal leaf not divided; Petal apex rounded; leaf blade of >> basal leaf ovate, narrowly ovate, oblong, or >> linear-lanceolate..........R. nephelogenes. >> >> Pankaj > > > > > -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
