Sorry for spelling kemaonensis wrongly in above post
-- 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, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > >
