A further reply from Dr. Chris: "P.s. Some cultivars never become fertile."
On 28 October 2011 10:06, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > A reply from Dr. Chris Fraser-Jenkins: > " This is one of the Nephrolepis exaltata (L.) Schott cultivars. It is > not the usual cv. 'Bostoniensis' but it should be fairly easily named from > Benedict or Morton's papers on Nephrolepis cultivars. > A cultivar is a genetic abnormality in a species (forked pinnae, > cristate tips, depauperate pinnules, variegated fronds etc.) which can be > given a cultivar name (new ones must be in English under the Code for > cultivated plants) with a capital letter and inverted commas, once it is > established in more than one garden or living collection. There are many > famous ones in Dryopteris, Polystichum, Athyrium, Polypodium etc. still > cultivated in British gardens (also in Japan and the USA) which are > propagated from original plants, first discovered in the wild as > abnormalities, going back hundreds of years. > Mrs. Andersson-Koto did some work in the 1950s on the genetic ratios > in offspring of some well known cultivars and published some interesting > papers on them. There are quite a lot of photographic books on different > cultivars in various genera. > It is most important NOT to report some cultivar of an exotic species > (N. exaltata is a S. American species, not permanantly established in the > wild in India) as if some new finding for the Indian flora - as some > disreputable authors have done in the past. It is merely a cultivated > exotic species, nothing to do with the Indian flora. > I wonder if my last identification reached you? I identified and > commented on a fern for someone else a couple of weeks ago, under this > eFlora of India heading, but when I tried to post it it did not post as it > said I was not authorised to post it. > Best wishes, > Chris Fraser-Jenkins, Kathmandu. " > Thanks a lot, Dr. Chris Fraser-Jenkins. > On 27 October 2011 13:46, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: chitralekha P <[email protected]> >> Date: 11 July 2011 18:24 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:73861] ID request - 11072011PC3 >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Please identify this fern. Height is about 1foot. Didnot see any sori >> formation in the past two years. >> Regards, >> Chitralekha >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg ([email protected]) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1725 members & >> 85,000 messages on 30/9/11) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of around 5500 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them > for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1725 members & > 85,000 messages on 30/9/11) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of around 5500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1725 members & 85,000 messages on 30/9/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of around 5500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
