Colquhounia in eFI

Tabish

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Oct 14, 2024, 2:20:28 PM10/14/24

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Regarding the Colquhounia coccinea images posted on eFI, I think only Saroj's post from Nepal is Colquhounia coccinea. All other images from West Himalaya belong to Colquhounia vestita. The reason is as follows:

Firstly, Colquhounia coccinea is found from Nepal eastwards. It is not found in West Himalaya, whereas Colquhounia vestita is found throughout the Himalayas (according to POWO).

Secondly, the stem, branches and leaf undersides in Colquhounia vestita are white-woolly, whereas they are not in Colquhounia coccinea (see the key at FOC). This feature is quite visible in the images on eFI.

The confusion probably arose from Polunin & Stainton which mentions only Colquhounia coccinea and describes the distribution ranging from Uttarakhand, and says the leaf undersides are white woolly. Mostly likely they erroneously clubbed the two species into one.

Tabish

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Saroj Kasaju

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Oct 15, 2024, 12:30:22 AM10/15/24

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Dear Tabish,

Any further opinion on ?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/4Wec0WxbBAE

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/is3QHGa5nRI

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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J.M. Garg

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Oct 26, 2024, 2:22:46 AM10/26/24

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Thanks, Tabish ji.

After going through details, I agree with you.

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