I will try to check, but unfortunately, we dont have all th fascicles here at WII. Will check and let you know soon. Regards Pankaj
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Let us wish we have many more such fruitful interactions. Can you please > check from Indian revision of Ranunculaceae (Fascicles or any other recent > one) the status of this taxon? Obviously FBI considered this as mere > variation of R. pulchellus. > > -- > 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 4:44 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 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 > > > > -- *********************************************** "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
