Chromosome studies inSalvia (labiatae): West-himalayan species

1971 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 596-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. S. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Himalayan Species

Lectotypification of the name Carex setosa (Cyperaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 510 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
ASOK GHOSH
Keyword(s):  
Himalayan Species

Carex setosa Boott is a highly variable Sino-Himalayan species. In the protologue, the species was described by Francis Boott with three distinct morphotypes. Morphotypes were further illustrated in three different tabs. J.D. Hooker collected all the morphotypes in Lachen, Sikkim in 1849. The Indian morphotypes are Carex setosa var. setosa. The name Carex setosa is lectotypified here.

Taxonomy and food plants of Bombus simillimus SMITH (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Indian Himalaya

2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Rifat H. Raina ◽  
Malkiat S. Saini ◽  
Zakir H. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
Trifolium Pratense ◽  
Coniferous Forest ◽  
Food Plants ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Indian Himalaya ◽  
Taxonomic Descriptions ◽  
Sizeable Number ◽  
Himalayan Species

Abstract Bombus simillimus SMITH is a west Himalayan species, known only from Pakistan and India. In the Indian Himalaya this species is restricted to Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. So far, it has never been recorded from other regions. Its females (workers) can be recognized by the chocolate brown pubescence of the metasomal terga 1 and 2. The colour pattern of the queen is very distinct, with the whole body coloured black except for the last two metasomal terga, which are brick-red. In Kashmir Himalaya it is widespread around the lower mountain coniferous forest and was found foraging heavily on Trifolium pratense, Lavatera cashmeriana, Carduus spp. and Cirsium spp. Being very common and having a very wide distributional range, it is associated with a sizeable number of host plants. Due emphasis has been laid on its detailed taxonomic descriptions, synonymy, host plants, distribution pattern and illustration. Thirty-five food plants of this species have been recorded from the study areas.

scholarly journals Silver Ferns of Bangladesh and the exclusion of reported Aleuritopteris grisea (Blanf.) Panigrahi (Pteridophyta, Pteridaceae)

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-206
Author(s):  
CR Fraser Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Present Author ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Low Altitude ◽  
Cheilanthoid Ferns ◽  
Himalayan Species

The three species of Aleuritopteris ("Silver Ferns") present in Bangladesh are discussed, A. bicolor (Roxb.) Fraser-Jenk, A. anceps (Blanf.) Panigrahi and A. subdimorpha (C.B.Clarke & Baker) Fraser-Jenk., correcting some previous erroneous reports. Aleuritopteris grisea (Blanf.) Panigrahi has recently been reported from the Chittagong Hills, S.E. Bangladesh. But that species is well known to be a high Himalayan Sino-Himalayan species of the Tibetan subtype, confined to the main Himalayan ranges and occurring from c. 2900 - 4000 m altitude. The specimen misreported as it from Bangladesh belongs to the low-altitude species, A. anceps (Blanf.) Panigrahi, which occurs from c. 300-750 m altitude and is a S.E. Asian (Malesian) element in the flora of the Indian subcontinent. This species was first knowingly collected in Bangladesh in the same District in 2003 by the present author, but unfortunately Bangladesh was then inadvertently omitted from its range in his monographic summary of Indian subcontinental cheilanthoid ferns. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjb.v42i2.18020 Bangladesh J. Bot. 42(2): 195-206, 2013 (December)

The genus Schizotechium (Caryophyllaceae) resurrected

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 252 (1) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
PRASHANT K. PUSALKAR ◽  
S.K. SRIVASTAVA
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Central Axis ◽  
Generic Rank ◽  
Himalayan Species

Fenzl (1833, 1840) described the taxon Schizotechium as a section of the genus Stellaria Linnaeus (1753: 421) (Caryophyllaceae Juss.) to accommodate the Himalayan Stellaria crispata Wallich ex D.Don (1825: 215) [= Stellaria monosperma Buchanan-Hamilton ex D.Don (1825: 215)]. The section was morphologically characterized in having the calix 5-partite, 10 hypogynous stamens, the ovary 2–3-ovulate, (2–)3 styles, the capsule 1(–2)-seeded, and often without a central collumella. Bentham (1862), unaware of raised generic rank for the section by Reichenbach (1841), also pointed out the distinctness of this group, strongly supporting the generic rank. He concluded: “Schizotechium Fenzl, although only proposed as a section of Stellaria might have perhaps rather more claims than any of the preceding [subgenera/sections of Stellaria included in the said paper (Bentham 1862)] to be adopted as a genus. It consists of two Himalayan species with a scandent habit and diffuse panicles, almost as in Brachystemma D. Don (1825: 216) and only 3 ovules, of which one ripens. The ovary might thus be supposed to be reduced to uniovulate carpels, and to be brought technically nearer to that of Phytolaccaceae R.Br., but there is no central axis, and a slight comparison of actual specimens at once give the idea that it is an exceptional and irregular reduction in the ovules of a closely compound ovary, and not a normal conformity of the ovules with as many distinct or well-marked carpels. The leaves arrangement, inflorescence, and flowers are in all other respects those of Stellaria in which genus we continue to retain Schizotechium as a section.” Notably, members of Schizotechium differ from the other belonging to Stellaria by the following characters: sub-scandent habit, occurrence of tuberous or fusiform fleshy roots, large, diffuse, many-flowered panicle of compound cymes, central collumella of capsule extremely reduced or nearly absent and capsule with 1(–2) fertile enlarged seed and rest sterile, undeveloped ovules (Bentham 1862, Edgeworth & Hooker 1872).

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