I think I found something exactly what you are looking for. So our plant is
Ranunculus pulchellus C.A. Mey. var. longicaulis (C.A. Mey.) Hook. f. & Thomson Please find it attached. Regards Pankaj On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I found something exactly what you are looking for. > So our plant is > > Ranunculus pulchellus C.A. Mey. var. longicaulis (C.A. Mey.) Hook. f. & > Thomson > > Please find it attached. > Regards > Pankaj > > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I will try to check, but unfortunately, we dont have all th fascicles >> here at WII. Will check and let you know soon. >> Regards >> Pankaj >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *********************************************** >> "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 >> > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "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 > -- *********************************************** "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
