Dactylicapnos arunachalensis Lidén & M.K.Pathak (NE-India (Arunachal Pradesh) as per Catalogue of Life) Dactylicapnos grandifoliolata Merr. (N-Burma (Kachin), Nepal, NE-India (Sikkim, Darjeeling, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur), Bhutan, SE-Tibet as per Catalogue of Life) Dactylicapnos lichiangensis (Fedde) Hand.-Mazz. (China (SW-Sichuan, C- & NW-Yunnan), SE-Tibet, Bhutan, NE-India (Arunachal Pradesh) as per Catalogue of Life) Dactylicapnos paucinervia (K.R.Stern) Lidén & M.K.Pathak (N-Burma (Kachin), NE-India (Sikkim, Darjeeling, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya), SE-Tibet as per Catalogue of Life) (China (W-Sichuan, Yunnan), Bhutan, Sikkim, SE-Tibet, N-India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya), Nepal as per Catalogue of Life) Dactylicapnos scandens (D.Don) Hutch. (China (W-Guangxi, S-Yunnan), S-Tibet (Chumbi), Bhutan, Sikkim, Burma, Nepal, N-Vietnam, N-Thailand, N-India (Darjeeling, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu?), Sri Lanka (I) as per Catalogue of Life) Dactylicapnos torulosa (Hook.f. & Thomson) Hutch. (China (W-Guizhou, SW-Sichuan, Yunnan), SE-Tibet, India (Arunachal P., Meghalaya), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar [Burma] as per Catalogue of Life) Keys as per Flora of Nepal On-line accounts (Author- Magnus Liden): 1a Annual. Sepals fringed. Fruit linear. Leaves with 3–5 primary lateral alternate leaflets and a terminal tendril. Stems angular or winged … 1 D. roylei b Perennial. Sepals entire. Fruit ovate to lanceolate. Leaves with 2 primary lateral alternate or opposite leaflets and a terminal tendril. Stems ± terete ……2 2a Primary leaflets opposite ………3 b Primary leaflets alternate ………..4 3a Wings of inner petals overtopping apex by ca. 1.5 mm. Each primary leaflet with 4–7 ultimate leaflets. Capsule fleshy. Seeds with large deeply dissected elaiosomes ……. 2 D. grandifoliolata b Wings of inner petals overtopping apex by ca. 3 mm. Each primary leaflet with 10–15 ultimate leaflets. Capsule membranous. Seeds with small elaiosomes ……. 3 D. cordata 4a Fruit with broad base, very fleshy when fresh, becoming black in the press. Nectary sigmoidally curved, shortly acuminate ……. 4 D. scandens b Fruit lanceolate, flattened, membranous, green in the press. Nectary curved upwards with thickening or small peg at middle, tip long and narrow ……5 5a Margin of fruit entire or almost so. Seeds 1.6–1.8 mm, sharply colliculate to echinulate ……. 5 D. macrocapnos b Margin of fruit grossly dentate. Seeds ca. 1.2 mm, faintly colliculate ………. 6 D. odontocarpa Dactylicapnos (Papaveraceae) page with images of species in efloraofindia : 5 posts by 2 authors. Pl. go through Dactylicapnos (Papaveraceae) page with images of species in efloraofindia. I request you to pl. go through & point out mistakes, if any. I hope this will aid in identifications in future. If anybody can send images of other species of this genera (for incorporation in the website), if any, or can identify unidentified images, it will be really nice. It all seems correct. I will send you some images of the other Indian and Nepal species shortly 6 more species has been added as contributed by Dr. Magus Liden |
Dactylicapnos
Updated on December 24, 2024