Wonderful images, Rawat ji On 18 Nov 2016 3:12 pm, "D.S Rawat" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Attaching more images as desired. > This primula was shot above Munsyari (Pithoragarh District, Kumaon, > Uttarakhand) at an elevation of about 2600-2700m. It was growing on a moist > vertical mossy slope in second fortnight of March 2013. As I understand > with increasing spring temperature the habitat was becoming drier. Some > tetramerous flowers are also visible (marked in image-2). > DSRawat Pantnagar > > On Friday, November 18, 2016 at 2:24:32 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot, Chadwell ji, for looking at all posts in this genera in efi. >> Catalogue of life >> <http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/4c16f03bb909a78dc595a58aacaf4294> >> states *Primula petiolaris *Wall. to be an accepted name. >> >> May I request Rawat ji to pl. post other images. >> >> >> On 10 November 2016 at 05:05, [email protected] < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am unsure about this. Richards observes that few species have been so >>> misunderstood as Primula petiolaris Wallich. >>> >>> I see that it is no longer an accepted number in 'The Plant List'. *So >>> what has replaced it? Primula gracilipes perhaps?* >>> >>> It is still on the 'Primula World' site but the only images are of >>> cultivated plants and some of these could easily be hybrids. >>> >>> Cannot say the image shot in Uttarakhand matches the images on the above >>> site. >>> >>> According to Richards it is found in Nepal & Sikkim plus two early >>> records from Kumaon. Flowers of Himalaya says Uttaranachal to Sikkim @ >>> 2400-3600m. >>> >>> Richards says throughout Nepal sometimes growing and hybridising with >>> Primula gracilipes. >>> >>> *I am uncertain as to the differences between P.petiolaris and >>> P.gracilipes. They are closely related. Richards considers the latter >>> might well be considered a subspecies of the former! Differing in the >>> almost stemless (those in the photo do have stalks), tightly clasped >>> blunter sepal-lobes (which cannot be observed in the image) and the total >>> absence of meal - though sometimes meal is not prominent. * >>> >>> *Is there anyone who can comment with authority? And tell us the >>> correct nomenclature/taxonomic treatment?* >>> >>> *Flowers of the Himalaya say that Primula gracilipes is the most >>> frequent petiolarid Primula in Bhutan (and Sikkim). They consider >>> P,petiolaris much smaller and the two may be CONSPECIFIC i.e. being the >>> same species!* >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 9:31:07 AM UTC+1, D.S Rawat wrote: >>> >>>> This Primula also shot in Munsyari area Uttarakhand resembles to *Primula >>>> petiolaris* Wallich with its irregularly toothed petals. >>>> >>>> Validation (or otherwise) is requested. >>>> >>>> Dr D.S.Rawat >>>> Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. 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