Thanks a lot Pankaj ji for such a useful revision of Indian Ranunculus -- 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 5:15 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > I think I found something exactly what you are looking for. > So our plant is > > Ranunculus pulchellus C.A. Mey. var. longicaulis (C.A. Mey.) Hook. f. & > Thomson > > Please find it attached. > Regards > Pankaj > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I think I found something exactly what you are looking for. > > So our plant is > > > > Ranunculus pulchellus C.A. Mey. var. longicaulis (C.A. Mey.) Hook. f. & > Thomson > > > > Please find it attached. > > Regards > > Pankaj > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > *********************************************** > > "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 >
