Interesting questions posed by Tapas Da. Experts may have answers to these. If two subspecies exist together these will hybridize (being same species!) and there will be mixing of their distinct characters. Whether these two subspecies exist in Gurudongmar area or not is not clear from the text of this document. Two leaf, three leaf forms of *Podophyllum* exist also in Western Himalaya so this character is variable. Flora of India volume 1 (page 415, 1993) lists two species *P. hexandrum* Royle & *P. sikkimensis* Chatterjee & Mukerjee in Indian Himalaya. *P. sikkimensis* is included in *Dysosma* Woodson as D. aurantiocaulis (Hand.-Mazz.) Hu. Considering similarities of *Dysosma*, *Podophyllum* a key to separate these and two subspecies of Podophyllum (given as Sinopodophyllum) would had been quite useful. Transfer to *Podophyllum*..... opportunity suggested here. Rest will be done by 'New Combination Hunters'.
DSRawat On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 10:56:57 PM UTC+5:30, tchakrab wrote: > > The present enquiry relates to the following website: > > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/b/berberidaceae/sinopodophyllum > > > According to Mabberley, D. J. (2017), Mabberley's Plant Book, Fourth > Edition, *Sinopodophyllum *T. S. Ying is a synonym of *Podophyllum *L. > Please see also: > http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/?q=Sinopodophyllum > > Recently a new subspecies of *Sinopodophyllum hexandrum *has been > described from Sikkim: > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/njb.02181 > > My question to the experts of the group is that: first, whether a > subspecies can be described without phytogeographic isolation? Secondly, > whether this new subspecies, if sufficiently distinct, should not be > transferred to *Podophyllum*? > > Kindly enlighten me. > Kind regards, > -Tapas. > > > -- 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.
