{"id":1255006,"date":"2020-06-25T04:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T04:41:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-04T17:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T11:40:03","slug":"berchemia-edgeworthii","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/berchemia-edgeworthii\/","title":{"rendered":"Berchemia edgeworthii"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Berchemia<\/i> edgeworthii<\/i> Lawson, Fl. Brit. India 1: 638 1875<\/em>. (syn: Berchemia axilliflora<\/em> Chen; Berchemia nana<\/em> W.W.Sm.);<\/div>\n
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China (NW-Yunnan, W-Sichuan), S-Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Jammu & Kashmir
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\nNW-India (Uttar Pradesh)<\/span><\/span> as per Catalogue of Life<\/a>;<\/div>\n
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My Pending Identifications: Chakrata-Shrub 1:: NS MARCH 08<\/a> : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (5).
\n<\/span>This id is long pending.. please help, this <\/span>shrub<\/span> was shot <\/span>from Chakrata-Budher road,
\n<\/span>flowering was over, only fruits were visible, can this be a legume?
\n<\/span>I can only wish I had dissected the fruit, to make the things little clearer..<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Does not look like a legume. Hope to get Id.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tiliaceae<\/i> member (<\/span>Grewia<\/i> sp.) ?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After long, a convincing input has been received on facebook group.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Which says, this can be a Berchemia<\/i> sp.
\nThis does not match with <\/span>Berchemia floribunda<\/i>, posted by …, I hope this can be one from <\/span>B. lineata<\/i> or <\/span>B. edgeworthii<\/i>, though flowers are required to finally conclude.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks, … Appears closer to Berchemia lineata<\/i> as per the following<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.efloras.org\/general_object_page.aspx?object_id=1515<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berchemia_lineata#\/291).jpg<\/span><\/a>
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rather than Berchemia edgeworthii<\/i> as per the following:<\/div>\n
http:\/\/frps.eflora.cn\/frps\/Berchemia%20edgeworthii<\/span><\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.efloras.org\/object_page.aspx?object_id=67205&flora_id=5<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Thanks a lot … for pertinent links, and they are quite convincing too…!!<\/p>\n

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While reviewing this genera in efi, I feel it should be Berchemia edgeworthii<\/strong> M. A. Lawson in J. D. Hooker (although habit image is missing) as per<\/div>\n
Keys in Flora of China<\/span><\/a> and FoC illustration<\/span><\/a>
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Fruits are stated to be “Drupe yellowish green when young, dark blue and waxy at maturity, globose to ovoid to ellipsoid, 5-6 mm, to 3 mm in diam., <\/strong>with persistent disk and calyx tube at base; fruiting pedicel 4.5-5 mm, pilose<\/strong>” and “Flowers white, very small, 4-5 mm in diam., in terminal cymose racemes or in fascicles of few to 10 in leaf axils<\/strong>” as per Flora of China in <\/span>Berchemia lineata<\/strong> (Linnaeus) Candolle<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(? India)<\/span><\/div>\n
While they are “Drupe orange or purple at maturity, cylindric<\/strong>, 7-9 mm, 3-4 mm in diam., <\/strong>with inconspicuous remnants of disk and calyx tube at base; mesocarp sweet; fruiting pedicel 2-4 mm, glabrous<\/strong>” and “Flowers white, 2.5-3 mm in diam., glabrous, solitary or 2- or 3-fascicled in axils of leaves<\/strong>” in <\/span>Berchemia edgeworthii<\/strong> M. A. Lawson in J. D. Hooker<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
Also matches with specimen in GBIF<\/span><\/a> from the area.<\/div>\n
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Flora of Pakistan and Checklist of Nepal does not mention Berchemia lineata<\/strong> (Linnaeus) Candolle<\/span><\/a>. Flora of Pakistan<\/span><\/a> mentions Berchemia lineata<\/em> auct. non DC. as a syn. of Berchemia edgeworthii<\/strong> Lawson in Hook. f.<\/p>\n

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Comparative images support the ID\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n

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Thanks a lot \u2026 for concluding it, finally..
\nThanks \u2026 for your inputs too..<\/p>\n

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Nepali name :\u00a0\u092e\u0941\u0938\u0947 \u0932\u0930\u0940 Muse Laree<\/strong><\/p>\n

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References:
\n<\/span>Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) specimen in GBIF<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0 FOC illustration<\/a> \u00a0Flora of Pakistan<\/a> \u00a0FOP illustration<\/a> Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Useful Tropical Plants<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Bhutan Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>Plants of the Punjab<\/a> By Charles James Bamber<\/span><\/p>\n

Handbook of Flowering Plants of Nepal (Vol. 1 Gymnosperms and Angiosperms \u2026<\/a> By K.K. Shrestha, S. Bhattarai, P. Bhandari<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Berchemia edgeworthii Lawson, Fl. Brit. India 1: 638 1875. (syn: Berchemia axilliflora Chen; Berchemia nana W.W.Sm.); . China (NW-Yunnan, W-Sichuan), S-Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), Pakistan (Baluchistan, Waziristan, Kurram, Chitral, Hazara), NW-India (Uttar Pradesh) as per Catalogue of Life; . My Pending Identifications: Chakrata-Shrub 1:: NS MARCH…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6003],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1255006","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-berchemia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1255006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1255006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1255006"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1255006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}