Nice to learn about the difference between the two species !! thanks for bringing this to your knowledge tanay Tanay
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Iris hookeriana Foster from Kashmir, one of the most common but under > reported species of Western Himalayas in subalpine and alpine zone. > Specimens are often found identified under I. kemaonensis. I had studied > more than two hundred specimens of I. kumaonensis (spellings used earlier) > in Calcutta, Dehradun, Lucknow and other Herbaria and found more than 95 > per cent specimens actually belonging to I. hookeriana back in 1972-73. > > > > The two species are distinguished as Under: > > I. hookeriana: Flowers on distinct 5-15 (30) cm long peduncle; peduncle > 2-fld; bracts almost covering corolla tube; corolla tube (hypanthium) 2-3 cm > long; Beard white > I. kemaonensis: Flowers sessile, peduncle absent or very short; 1-fld, > flowers appearing almost from ground. bracts covering only base of corolla > tube; corolla tube 5-7.5 cm long; beard yellow-orange tipped. > > Incidently there is another species named after Hooker, I. hookeri Penny > ex G. Don. Although code does not ban such names, it is recommended to the > authors not to name a species within a genus after the same person/place. > > --; > 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/ > > -- Tanay Bose Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant Department of Botany University of British Columbia 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036
