Thanks Rashida ji and Pankaj ji I will have closer look on the plant on Monday and perhaps report back. It would also help in deciding which key (one supplied by Shrikant ji, and one by Rashida ji) is more useful, or else a better key can be evolved based on characters from both the keys (since they focus on different key characters) and Pankaj ji's attachment.
-- 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 12:06 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Dinesh Sir > Hope this could be of some help to you. Will try to find some time out > for the other protologue. > If you are unable to translate, then please let me know. I will do it FOR > YOU. > Regards > Pankaj > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > > Date: Mar 23, 7:53 am > > Subject: Eranthemum roseum vs E. pulchellum > > To: efloraofindia > > > > > > 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/ > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "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 >
