Sir, in case this helps, here are the keys from Dr. Almeida's flora
for *Eranthemum
L.* Vol IV, A pg: 36
1.Flowers reddish
-pink---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.
cinnabarinum
1.Flowers
blue-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2
2. Bracts densely
pubescent-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.
pubescens
2. Bracts glabrous or faintly
hairy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3
3.Bracts white with green veins, obovate, obtuse, with a short
reflexed mucro-------------------------------------------------------------4
4. Plants with many erect branches springing from a common
base------------------------------------------------------------E. wattii
4. Plants with single stem, branched above, not in
clumps------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5
5. Flowers 3-4 cm across
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E. roseum
5. Flowers upto 2.5 cm
across------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.
roseum var. parviflorum
3.Bracts greeen, elliptic,
ovate,acuminate--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6
6. Flowers in dense,usually
solitary,uninterrupted spikes;bracts exceeding 2 cm
long-------------------E. purpurascens
6. Flowers in interrupted usually paniculate spikes; bracts
less than 1 cm long---------------------------------------------------7
7. Leaves
elliptic-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E. fastigiatum
7.
Leaves
ovate----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.
pulchellum
regards,
Rashida.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Rashida Atthar <[email protected]>wrote:
> Sir my general question regarding this species which I have been asking
> many to verify : Was there any smell, fragrance ? Thankyou.
>
> regards,
> Rashida.
>
> P.S. Will soon give the difference in both the species from Dr Almeida's
> flora.
>
> regards,
> Rashida.
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Dinesh ji and Shrikant ji
>> I had to put this question because while resurfacing the photographs of
>> another species (identified as E. purpurascence), the doubts arose in mind.
>> Perhaps soon we would resurface all these together, and my plant from Delhi
>> which I knew as E. nervosum (now correctly E. pulchellum) which needs to be
>> checked for both E. roseum and E. pulchellum, apparently close species which
>> can be confused. As suggested by Shrikant ji the differences are largely
>> based on spike size and bracts shape. Let us concentrate on that for both
>> Delhi plant and those from Western Ghats.
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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 Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Gurcharan ji ... many thanks for surfacing my query put at UBC (where
>>> Tanay currently belongs).
>>> The differences between *E. roseum* and *E. pulchellum* are not yet
>>> clear to me ... for the only fact : not sure whether the latter is found in
>>> northern Western Ghats.
>>> If both of them are known to be distributed in northern Western Ghats,
>>> then the differences are very important to me.
>>>
>>> Sometime later settled with the thinking that *E. pulchellum* has quite
>>> a few spikes closely rising at the end of stem (or branches) ... while *E.
>>> roseum*, commonly found in my vicinity has just one OR two spikes ...
>>> (will stand corrected). There could be better and clearer difference(s)
>>> between the two species.
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>> Dinesh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> In past two months there have been few uploads of Eranthemum
>>>> photographs.
>>>>
>>>> Pardeshi ji gave following key
>>>>
>>>> 1. Bracts green with white ciliate margin, acuminate at apex.......E.
>>>> purpurascens
>>>> 1. Bracts white with green nerves, mucronate at
>>>> apex.................E. roseum
>>>>
>>>> We have one shrub growing in Delhi identified as E. nervosum, which has
>>>> bracts similar to E. roseum with green and white portions. It is now
>>>> considered as synonym of E. pulchellum. Also E. roseum and E. pulchellum
>>>> are
>>>> considered as distinct species, and in spite of trying a lot I could not
>>>> find the differences between the two and am not able to decide whether our
>>>> plant is E. roseum or E. pulchellum. It was pleasant surprise to find that
>>>> Dinesh ji had raised this question in 2007.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22084
>>>> <http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22084>
>>>> Any clues please
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
