Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please.
Some earlier relevant feedback:
“Bracts white with green nerves
Bracts elliptic, cuspidate, glabrous and spikes upto 7.5
cm...E. pulchellum Andr.
Bracts obovate, mucronate, strigose and spikes longer than
7.5 cm....E. roseum (Vahl.) R. Br.
E. pulchellum is native to N. Bengal, planted and escape elsewhere, E.
roseum is native to W. peninsula. Regards, Shrikant”
“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. ”
“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”
"*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"
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>
Date: 22 March 2011 21:58
Subject: [efloraofindia:65369] Eranthemum roseum vs E. pulchellum
To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Dinesh Valke <
[email protected]>
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
--
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Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
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