Thank you Mr Garg for your generous comments. Violas are proving to be very difficult and I saw this very same flower shown as V. serpens on the Great National Himalayan Park web page this morning. I hope we soon see light at the end of this dark tunnel.
Looking forward to validation and advice. Thanks. Ashwini > On 04-Mar-2016, at 9:27 AM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, Ashwini ji, > Never seen such wonderful display & explanation in such details with > photographs. > My hats off to you. > >> On 3 March 2016 at 21:57, Ashwini Bhatia <ashw...@ashwinibhatia.com> wrote: >> Violas have been troubling me for more than a year now. Each time I think I >> have found a positive ID, I am to be proved wrong. I hope this time I am >> correct. I am basing my ID on the following keys; >> >> 1. V. canescens is pale lilac in colour with a stigma that is blunt at the >> apex. >> 2. The stipules are fringed. >> 3. Leaves and stems are densely pubescent. >> >> I have been confusing this with V. serpens a lot and its synonym V. serpens >> var. canescens did not help. Also in some places both species are wrongly >> treated as one. I will treat the comparison between the two species in a >> separate email. >> >> Viola canescens—Himalayan White Violet >> Above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP >> 1800m >> 03 March 2016. >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> >> >> Pale lilac flowers with a lot of white. The lower lip with dark veins >> shorter and narrower than other petals; >> <_MG_1807_03Mar2016.jpg> >> >> White tufts on the inside of petals (only the side pair?); >> <_MG_1810_03Mar2016.jpg> >> <_MG_1815_03Mar2016.jpg> >> >> Fringed scales at the base of the plant; >> <_MG_1819_03Mar2016.jpg> >> >> Downy leaves; >> <_MG_1823_03Mar2016.jpg> >> >> The blunt apex of stigma is visible; >> <_MG_1840_03Mar2016.jpg> >> <_MG_1889_03Mar2016.jpg> >> <_MG_1986_03Mar2016.jpg> >> >> The habit and individual parts; >> <_MG_1997_03Mar2016.jpg> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world- > more than 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18.6.15) or Efloraofindia > website (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,00,000 > images). > 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). You can also use them for free as per Creative > Commons license attached with each image. > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
