Requesting I'd assistance of unknown herb

Madhusudhan Khanal

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Oct 9, 2022, 4:50:58 AM10/9/22

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Respected experts, kindly help in the identification of an unknown herb with yellow flowers.

Elevation - 1300m

Location - Kalimpong, West Bengal.

Flowers not opening widely.

Flowers very perishable, opening for a very short time.

Leaves lanceolate with serrate margin.

Fruit- globose.

Kindly check the attached photograph.

Thanks and regards

Madhusudhan Khanal

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Saroj Kasaju

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Oct 9, 2022, 4:55:55 AM10/9/22

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Alectra avensis (Benth.) Merr. Syn :

Melasma avense (Benth.) Hand.-Mazz.

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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Madhusudhan Khanal

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Oct 9, 2022, 5:08:29 AM10/9/22

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Thank you sir.

Regards,

Madhusudhan Khanal

Saroj Kasaju

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Oct 9, 2022, 5:15:30 AM10/9/22

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OK.

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

J.M. Garg

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Oct 9, 2022, 8:07:38 AM10/9/22

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To me it appears close to images at Alectra sessiliflora

BSI Flora of India only gives distribution of this species in Sikkim.

Keys, if one can find, will further help.

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Madhusudhan Khanal

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Oct 9, 2022, 8:36:28 AM10/9/22

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Resambles A.sessiliflora in closer morphological observation. I couldn't find any record of the species from West Bengal.

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Madhusudhan Khanal

J.M. Garg

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Oct 9, 2022, 8:38:35 AM10/9/22

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Can your find Keys between the two?

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Madhusudhan Khanal

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Oct 9, 2022, 8:42:49 AM10/9/22

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I will check sir.

Regards,

Madhusudhan Khanal

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Oct 9, 2022, 9:29:35 AM10/9/22

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Flora of Sikkim shows the record of A.arvensis and not A.sessiliflora. The picture of the species in FOS is exact similar to the the specimen I found. Thus it can be assumed that the specimen from Sikkim and kalimpong both are same and is A.arvensis. POWO images of A.sessiliflora are much different with blackish margin on leaves and the leaf serration is also not as prominent as A.arvensis.

Thanks and regards

Madhusudhan

Madhusudhan Khanal

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Oct 9, 2022, 9:31:50 AM10/9/22

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Correction : A.avensis and not A.arvensis (As shown in BSI checklist).

J.M. Garg

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Oct 9, 2022, 9:34:55 AM10/9/22

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In view of contradictory inf., It is better we analyse based on the keys.
So keys have to be found first.

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Madhusudhan Khanal

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Oct 9, 2022, 9:36:17 AM10/9/22

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Okay sir. will look into it.

J.M. Garg

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Oct 16, 2022, 5:15:39 AM10/16/22

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Hi, Madhusudhan ji,

Request you for the keys.

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J.M. Garg

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Oct 22, 2022, 3:02:38 AM10/22/22

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A new study concludes that A. avensis and A. sessiliflora are the same and keep them under the name A. sessiliflora (Vahl) Kuntze thus reducing A. avensis as a synonym of it.

Pl. see Taxonomic Revision of the Alectra sessiliflora Complex (Orobanchaceae)– Jeffery J. Morawetz 1 , 2 and Andrea D. Wolfe- Systematic Botany (2011), 36(1): pp. 141–152);