San Francisco, August 2024 :: Calandrinia spectabilis for validation :: ARK2024-001

[Alka Khare]

Hello friends

Posting some pics from my recent US visit

This was clicked at Moss Landing coast near SFO, USA in August 2024.

Is this Calandrinia spectabilis?

Thanks and regards

Alka Khare

[Saroj Kasaju]

Yes I guess.

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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[Gurcharan Singh]

It is difficult to confirm identification without leaves. Strangely Calandrinia grandiflora and C. spectabilis are considered synonyms in several websites due to similar flowers but in reality they are so distinct that they are placed in two different genera now. They can be differentiated as below:

Calandrinia spectabilis Otto & A.Dietr.: Leaves 3-5 cm long, rhombic tp spathulate, light green,  inflorescence ca 60 cm tall, leaves and sepals with elongate unicellular hairs, sepals distinctly angular or keeled, capsules valves reflexed after dehiscence, margins involute. 

Cistanthe grandiflora (Lindl.) Schltdl. (syn: Calandrinia grandiflora Lindl.: Leaves 12-20 cm long, narrowly elliptic narrowed into broad petiole, with acute apex, ,  grey green, elongate hairs absent on leaves and sepals, sepals not distinctly keeled, capsule valves not reflexed after dehiscence, margins not involute.

[Gurcharan Singh]

My post of Calandrinia spectabilis

https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/f_7QI6deoX8/m/pGQ-Ai_VAAAJ

[Gurcharan Singh]

And my post of Cistanthe grandiflora

https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/KejUtHBRQl8/m/l_Zg1eHIAAAJ

[J.M. Garg]

Hi, Alka ji,
These are getting downloaded as heic files and not opening on downloading.

Pl. see. 

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[Alka Khare]

Attaching the jpeg versions.

Thanks and Regards

Alka Khare

[J.M. Garg]

Again the same issue.

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[Alka Khare]

Also attaching a cropped pic of the leaves.

Sir ji, are these enough to conclude?

Thanks and regards

Alka Khare

[Alka Khare]

Ohh, I had saved them as jpeg.

may be I will need to do some research.

Apologies

[Alka Khare]

Posting converted files.

Hopefully, they can be viewed now.

Regards

Alka Khare

[Alka Khare]

One more

[J.M. Garg]

It appears close to images at 
https://efloraofindia.com/2014/12/29/calandrinia-spectabilis/

Looks different from images at 
https://efloraofindia.com/2021/02/14/cistanthe-grandiflora/

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