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From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins <[email protected]>
Date: 21 April 2012 05:51
Subject: Cyrtomium
To: [email protected]
Dear Alok,
Well, I have included an updated Himachal and J. and K. list on the
Indian Ferns website (www.groups.yahoo.com/group/Indian-Ferns). You open
the Home Page, go to New Members and join it (free), then you can open up
Files on the left, and my paper on Nepal ferns etc. gives Himalayan State
lists. This is soon to be updated to include other States, until all
Indian States' pteridophytes are listed. But I am a little busy at present
and can't do the expansion for a couple of months at least, though it is
half ready.
Dr. Alka Kumari at the Himalayan Botanical Research Institute,
Palampur, is also working on Himachal ferns, as has Dr. S.P. Khullar at
Panjab University, Chandigarh, for many decades.
Best wishes,
Chris F.-J.
--- On Fri, 20/4/12, Alok Mahendroo <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Alok Mahendroo <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:113837] Re: Fern for id Kalatope - Al040512 (
[email protected])
> To: "Chris Fraser-Jenkins" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, 20 April, 2012, 22:23
> Thanks Chris... Though I do not know
> much about ferns... but your
> explanations have aroused my curiosity... and since you are
> based in the
> himalayas too I think you'd have a fair idea of the species
> present
> here.... I'll try to upload more species of ferns from
> Himachal and
> maybe we could create a checklist of this place too....
> (though I am
> sure someone would have done this already)...
> regards
> Alok
>
>
> On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 03:35 +0100, Chris Fraser-Jenkins
> wrote:
> > Incidentally, as there were two answers, what makes me
> think it is more likely C. anomophyllum than caryotideum is
> the lower leaf in the photo, showing the very rounded
> pinna-bases (as also the lowest pinna on the upper frond),
> and I have grown plants of it and seen how they can
> occasionally form a smallish, acute auricle in mid and upper
> pinnae (approaching the narrow auricles of caryotideum, but
> usually less prominent). Also the dark centres to the
> indusia. But it's true to say those two are a bit
> difficult sometimes, and alternatively sometimes C.
> anomophyllum can appear close to C. macrophyllum, but with
> teeth at least at the pinna-apices. They have long
> been recognised by the critical and carefulBotanists in
> Japan.
> > Dr. Sadamu Matsumoto at Tsukuba has shown that all
> these species are hybrid-derived and has been able to
> identify some of the ancestral diploids - so some degree of
> occasional intermediacy in morphology is not so surprising
> really.
> > Chris F.-J., Kathmandu.
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