*Habenaria grandifloriformis *Blatt. & McCann Thank you Saroj Kasaju
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: hemson <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 2:52:32 PM UTC+5:45 Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:85319] identification no011011sn1 To: Balkar <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>, Indiantrees Pics <[email protected]> i guess H. grandifloriformis.... but ya as Dr. Pankaj said leaf foto required to confirm. regards, On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Balkar Arya <[email protected]> wrote: Good Research Satish Ji On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: Satish Ji You had sent a query few days back for similar looking flower. [efloraofindia:78188] This flower also looks same. *Habenaria grandifloriformis* Since you come from Western ghats I would like to tell you a general observation. *Habenaria grandifloriformis* and *Habenaria rariflora* flowers look very similar and even a hard core taxonomist also woudn't dare to ID between the two without looking at the leaves. I just typed the word 'grandifloriformis' in my search mail window. I received some 11 odd mails as follows. 11July Prashant [efloraofindia:40891] 14 July Ajinkya [efloraofindia:43129] 18Jul Prashant [efloraofindia:43131] 10Aug Anantnarayan [efloraofindia:43972] 22Sep Bhatt Swetta [efloraofindia:47965] 20Jul Neil Soares [efloraofindia:74579] 8Aug Chaitanya Rajarshi [efloraofindia:76360] 24 Jul Rohit Chakravarty [efloraofindia:80214] Most of these *Habenaria grandifloriformis *were observed in Jun Jul i.e.Ashadh that's why it is called as *Ashadh amari* आषाढ अमरी which is much much more common than *Habenaria rariflora* which must be uncommon as I have yet to see this. Out of the above only the plant posted by Rohit Chakravarty is *H.rariflora*. If you have leaves it can be easily distinguished. Regards Dr Phadke On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Satish Nikam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear All, > Please tell me which Habenaria sp. is this.? > date/time:aug11 > location:mulshi,pune > habitat:wild > plant habit:herb > height:tiny,about 9" from the ground > leaves:-- > thanks > regards > satish nikam -- Dr Satish Phadke -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone -- 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, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/ea60641c-e53d-4a51-858f-8b887067143an%40googlegroups.com.
