Definitely not Iris keonnensis. It is Iris hookeriana The two species are most confused, although very distinct, with I. kemoanensis having perianth tube 5-7 cm long, and I. hookeriana less than 2.5 cm, in former the perianth tube almost twice as long as spathe:
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/iris/dykes/xxxa.jpg and in Hookeriana hardly emerging from spathe http://alm-alpines.com/gallery_iri2.htm http://www.hitendrasinkar.com/photoblog/p/559 1n 1970 to 1973 I spent roughly three months in all major herbaria of India including Calcutta, Lucknow, DehraDun, Jammu, Kashmir, etc and studies more than 600 specimens in these herbaria belonging to these two species and ultimately discovered that nearly 90 per cent or more specimens in these herbaria are wrongly identified. Iris kemanensis does not grow west of Kumaon, and definitely not in Himachal pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir. Don't be thus surprised if you find most books including Flora of British India recording distribution of I. kemoanensis from Kashmir Arunachal PRADESH. There is monograph on this genus by Dykes. The first plate is from that only. -- 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 Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > It has to be *Iris kemaonensis* > Dr Phadke > > > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I hope Iris kemaonensis >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> >> 2011/6/25 Pudji Widodo <[email protected]> >> >>> I think this is Iris versicolor. >>> >>> Pudji Widodo >>> Faculty of Biology Jenderal Soedirman University >>> PURWOKERTO 53122 INDONESIA >> >> >> >> >> >
