Convolvulaceae week: RVS4: Ipomoea alba (indiantreepix@googlegroups.com)

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Vijayasankar Raman (Google Docs)

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Mar 14, 2012, 11:59:01 PM3/14/12
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Ipomoea alba, from Andhra Pradesh...


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Gurcharan Singh

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Mar 15, 2012, 12:33:14 AM3/15/12
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Thanks Vijayasankar ji for showing another new plant 


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Dinesh Valke

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Mar 15, 2012, 4:42:07 AM3/15/12
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Many thanks for sharing this rarer plant, Vijayasankar ji.
... odd member of morning glory - this one is night glory ! ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea_alba

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Mar 15, 2012, 11:38:45 AM3/15/12
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Again Excellent Catch Vijayasankar ji 
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Vijayasankar

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Mar 15, 2012, 12:12:03 PM3/15/12
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Thanks Gurcharan ji, Dinesh ji, Balkar ji for the appreciations.
Dinesh ji, now I am confused! my plant looks different from the one at wikipedia. My plant had stout stems; and the leaves are also different.
So, please validate the id of my posted plant.
 
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Ron_Convolvulaceae

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Mar 17, 2012, 2:17:57 PM3/17/12
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Vijayasankar ji,

  The plant you have posted is definitely not Ipomoea alba and frankly I do not know offhand what it is.

I wonder if you can continue to document the development of the seedpods and photograph the seeds (?)

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Ron



On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:59:01 PM UTC-4, Vijayasankar wrote:

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Ipomoea alba, from Andhra Pradesh...


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Vijayasankar

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Mar 17, 2012, 6:44:42 PM3/17/12
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Thanks Ron ji. Its interesting.
But I don't think I can get to the place now. I can only check with the herbarium specimen. The plant was collected way back in 2007 and I vaguely remember its habit similar to that of Ipomoea carnea, I am not sure though. The habitat was semi-aquatic.

Thanks once again for your comments. Let us know if any name comes to your mind.

 
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Vijayasankar Raman
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Gurcharan Singh

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Mar 17, 2012, 11:11:06 PM3/17/12
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Thanks Ron 
Yes it looks totally different from plant uploaded by Surajit ji which is a climber, generally has prickles (see link below) and very important corolla is salver-shaped.


Can we consider Ipomoea soluta var. alba C Y Wu, which is similar to I. carnea but differs in longer sepals (13-15 mm mm as against 5-6 mm), densely pubescent on outside (against glabrous), obtuse (against rounded), leaves ovate cordate (as against ovate-oblong, 0vate-lanceolate)  


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Gurcharan Singh

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Mar 17, 2012, 11:27:30 PM3/17/12
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Reducing it further as it did not go to the group.


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On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Gurcharan Singh <sing...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am uploading cropped calyx of Vijayasankar ji's plant and  mine I. carnea fistulosa from Delhi.


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Ipomoea-fistulosa-Wazirabad-Delhi-5.jpg
ipomoea alba_1-a.jpg

Dinesh Valke

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Mar 18, 2012, 6:19:18 AM3/18/12
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Vijayasankar ji, I did not compare your plant with the one at the Wikipedia link.
It was in sheer excitement of getting to see upload of Ipomoea alba (night bloomer) that I commented.
Let us hope the ID of your posted plant gets resolved soon.

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Dinesh

Ron_Convolvulaceae

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Mar 18, 2012, 11:23:59 PM3/18/12
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Hello,

      My thoughts are that Ipomoea soluta may not pan out because most of what I can fined indicates that Ipomoea soluta is a synonym of Ipomoea campanulata and I.campanulata is a synonym of Stictocardia campanulata.

I did a comparison with the sepals of Stictocardia campanulata and they do not correlate.

Here are links to 2 crops and enhancements that I did from the original photos posted above by Vijayasankar

base of outer tube non constricted as in Ipomoea carnea
http://cubits.org/pics/2012-03-19/Ron_Convolvulaceae/983c55.jpg

warty sepals and stems populated by some tubecles
http://cubits.org/pics/2012-03-19/Ron_Convolvulaceae/6243b8.jpg

I look forward to someone coming forth with any additional information.


regards,

Ron





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Ron_Convolvulaceae

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Mar 18, 2012, 11:34:10 PM3/18/12
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Correction to my previous post

I should have stated that Ipomoea campanulata is a synonym of Stictocardia tiliifolia
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl

regards,,


Ron


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Ipomoea alba, from Andhra Pradesh...


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Vijayasankar

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Mar 19, 2012, 12:25:15 AM3/19/12
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Thanks Gurcharan ji and Ron, for the efforts as well as for the possible id.

An image of the Type specimen of Ipomoea soluta var. alba is available in this link: http://convolvulaceae.myspecies.info/content/ipo-soluta-alba-kun-h
Please check the image and provide your comments.


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Vijayasankar Raman
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Ron_Convolvulaceae

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Mar 19, 2012, 1:11:54 AM3/19/12
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I will be very frank and that is I have much difficulty using herbarium specimens because I am wired to look for both color and fine structural details and these are either distorted or missing entirely from dried specimens, especially very old specimens...and I have seen where 'The Experts' have been mislead by old dried,distorted specimens...

There is just no way to know for sure what a dried plant looked like as a Living plant...someone can take all the specialized training available on how to interpret dried specimens but it is always guesswork to some degree...

I fully realize that dried specimens was all that was possible under some circumstances and these old specimens can still provide material for comparative DNA analysis , but , I think if a person wants to know what Living plants look like , then you must have either Living plants or good high resolution photos to use as a reference...hopefully holographic imaging will be available in the not too distant future...

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Ron


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Satish Phadke

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Mar 19, 2012, 3:37:02 AM3/19/12
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Turning out to be an interesting post.
To me at first glance it looked like Ipomoea carnea having white flowers.
Later on learnt about the fine differences.

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Gurcharan Singh

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Mar 19, 2012, 3:49:21 AM3/19/12
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Yes Satish ji
That is the reason I went back to Flora of China to find differences between I. carnea and I. soluta var. alba. Let us see it gets sorted out. Some references do treat I. soluta as synonym of I. campanulata, but both Flora of China and The Plant List treat I. soluta as distinct species.

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Vijayasankar

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Mar 19, 2012, 10:29:45 AM3/19/12
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Satish ji, there seems to be a white-flowered form in Ipomoea carnea. The name I. carnea f. albiflora Moldenke is now synonym to I. carnea.
My plant was somewhat close to I. carnea but it was not that close to be considered a form of I. carnea. Flowers are also much smaller than and different from the latter sp.

Gurcharan ji, the varietal name I. soluta var. alba is not yet recognized by IPNI and The Plant List, not even under I. campanulata or Stictocardia. When there is change in genus name,
will all its varieties  automatically transferred to the new genus? In that case I. soluta var. alba should now be considered/called as Stictocardia tiliifolia var. alba???
 
Regards 
 
Vijayasankar Raman
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Ron_Convolvulaceae

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Mar 20, 2012, 9:35:46 AM3/20/12
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Hello,

  Here are a couple of additional links to Ipomoea carnea white form and closeup of Ipomoea carnea sepals

There is a white flowerd form of Ipomoea carnea
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/250438/


The sepals of Ipomoea carnea are smooth and not warty
http://cubits.org/pics/2012-03-20/Ron_Convolvulaceae/3d2daf.jpg
http://cubits.org/pics/2012-03-20/Ron_Convolvulaceae/c82a71.jpg

regards,

Ron


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Forwarding for ID
Distributed as Ipomoea soluta ?
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Forwarding again.



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Thanks, Gurcharan ji!
I wish I could provide more details about this plant to help resolve the ID issue.

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Thank you.

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