Yes Rashida ji The description matches, but some problem with his key.
-- 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 Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Rashida Atthar <atthar.rash...@gmail.com>wrote: > Sir, there is some variation in Dr. Almeida's keys(Proof -reading errors?) > and the description following each species of Eranthemum. As per your > observations of E. pulchellum the following description from the flora > matches for E. pulchellum for the bracts -I am quoting the entire > description: " A shrub 0.6-1.5 meter high, Leaves upto 20 cm long and 10 cm > broad, ovate, lineolate, apex acuminate entire or blunt crenulate. *It > has white, concave, ovate, acuminate* *bracts green nerves and veins and > blue flowers in uninterrupted spikes often forming a terminal panicle." * > ** > Again for E. roseum the detailed description of both bracts and > bracteoles is given I quote " Peduncles* *quadrangular,bracts 9mm long , > obovate, with a reflexed mucro, white with very prominent raised green > nerves, densely hairy on the midrib and ciliate on the margins with long > hair; bracteoles as long as or slightly longer than the calyx , narrowly > linear, acute , densely clothed on the back and ciliate with long white > hair * * > > Before going through both the description I was sure your plant is not E. > roseum but the fading flowers turning red as seen in one of your > pictures, is it also a charecterisitic of E. pulchellum. If so than the > riddle is solved . > > regards, > Rashida. > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I think the riddle for me and Dinesh ji is finally solved, thanks to >> Shrikant ji's key and Pankaj ji's attachment >> >> Eranthemum roseum and E. pulchellum are clearly very distinct >> >> In E. roseum the spike is much longer but narrower usually longer than 7 >> cm, bracts are obovate, mucronate and strigose. This can be clearly seen in >> photographs by Dinesh ji and Nikhaje ji >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/315815819/ >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/318353211/ >> >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/shubhada_nikharge/5256280357/in/set-72157624552174714/ >> >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/shubhada_nikharge/5255717803/in/set-72157624552174714/ >> >> In E. pulchellum (syn: E. nervosum) the spikes are much shorter usually >> shorter than 7 cm, broader, bracts elliptic, cuspidate and glabrous. This >> can be clearly seen in my photographs attached here. >> >> In both these species the bracts are mottled green and white as against E. >> purpurascens where they are uniformally green >> >> I am not familiar with Almeida's Flora, but notice that his key for >> Eranthemum does not seem to be working on more then one counts: >> >> 1. He records bracts as green in both E purpurascens and E. pulchellum, >> whereas they are mottled green and white in E. pulchellum >> 2. Spikes are not interrupted in E. pulchellum and bracts clearly longer >> than 1 cm >> 3. Bracts are densely hairy in both E. purpurascens and E. roseum. >> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/315815819/> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> >
