Let us wish we have many more such fruitful interactions. Can you please check from Indian revision of Ranunculaceae (Fascicles or any other recent one) the status of this taxon? Obviously FBI considered this as mere variation of R. pulchellus.
-- 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/ On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks a lot for resolving the issue finally. One of my biggest > problem is, I dont get taxonomically satisfied so easily, and > secondly, I dont start well if it is not an orchid. > Pankaj > > > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks Pankaj ji > > What a coincidence. After reading your earlier mails I went through the > > whole key starting from begining and imagine where I reached: > > R. nephelogenes var. longicaulis, the variety with petals almost > equalling > > sepals. The description matched. I went back to Flora of British India > India > > and found Ranunculus longicaulis listed as a synonym of R. pulchellus > > So following a more recent publication, Nudrat ji's plant is Ranunculus > > nephelogenes var. longicaulis > > > > Thanks for your critical analysis which led me to rethink and research > > further, > > THIS IS ONE VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW INTERACTIONS ON THE GROUP CAN LEAD > TO > > FRUITFUL RESULTS. > > -- > > 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/ > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> I am hesitant to agree with this. I am talking about your herbarium > >> and not Nuds plant!! I still say, I may be wrong...... > >> > >> Key in flora of China says: > >> > >> Stems 15–20 cm; blades of basal leaves ovate, elliptic, or obovate, > >> base broadly cuneate or cuneate, 1–3-denticulate on each side....R. > >> pulchellus > >> > >> Blade of basal leaf not divided; Petal apex rounded; leaf blade of > >> basal leaf ovate, narrowly ovate, oblong, or > >> linear-lanceolate..........R. nephelogenes. > >> > >> Pankaj > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India >
