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Gentiana ornata
« on: June 30, 2015, 02:32:39 PM »
Hi,
is there a difference between Gentiana ornata and Gentiana sino-ornata ?
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Re: Gentiana ornata
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2015, 03:46:00 PM »
Yes, there is. G. ornata is generally smaller, tighter growing and there  are other distinctions.....
Jim Jermyn on Geniana ornata :  http://www.jimjermynalpines.com/plant-of-the-month-octnov/

and from the online Flora of China :

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=210000620   ornata

52. Gentiana ornata (Wallich ex G. Don) Grisebach, Gen. Sp. Gent. 277. 1838.
华丽龙胆 hua li long dan

Pneumonanthe ornata Wallich ex G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 194. 1837.

Perennials 4-7 cm tall. Stems ascending, simple, glabrous. Basal rosette leaves developed; leaf blade linear, 1.8-3.5 cm × 2-4 mm, base connate for 2-4 mm, margin scabrous, apex acuminate, midvein distinct. Stem leaves larger, more crowded toward apex, uppermost surrounding calyx; leaf blade base obtuse and connate for 1.5-2 mm, margin scabrous, apex acute to obtuse, midvein distinct. Lower stem leaves elliptic to ovate, 3-7 × 1-2.5 mm; middle to upper leaves linear, 0.8-1.5 cm × 1-1.5 mm; rarely all stem leaf blades linear to narrowly elliptic. Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile. Calyx narrowly obconic, 1-1.3 cm; lobes green, linear, (0.5-)0.9-1.1 cm, margin scabrous, apex obtuse, midvein distinct. Corolla pale blue, with pale yellow-white base and dark blue streaks and spots, campanulate, 2.5-4 cm; lobes broadly triangular, 2.5-3.5 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse and sometimes mucronate; plicae ovate, 0.5-1 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse. Stamens inserted just below middle of corolla tube; filaments 8-10 mm; anthers narrowly ellipsoid, 1.5-2 mm. Style 5-5.5 mm; stigma lobes suborbicular. Capsules ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.2-1.3 cm; gynophore to 3.5 cm. Seeds light brown, ellipsoid, 1-1.2 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug-Nov.
Stony pastures, grassland slopes; 3300-5000 m. S Xizang [Bhutan, E Nepal, Sikkim].



http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=210000631   sinoornata

58. Gentiana sinoornata I. B. Balfour, Trans. & Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh. 27: 253. 1918.
类华丽龙胆 lei hua li long dan

Perennials 10-15 cm tall. Stems ascending, usually short branched, with several shoots not flowering, glabrous. Basal rosette leaves poorly developed; leaf blade narrowly triangular, 4-6 × 2-5 mm, base connate for 2-4 mm, margin scabrous, apex acute. Stem leaves incurved, larger and more crowded toward apex, uppermost surrounding calyx; leaf blade ± lanceolate, base connate for 2-3 mm, margin scabrous, apex acute, midvein distinct. Lower to middle stem leaves 7-10 × 2-2.5 mm; upper leaves 1-3.5 cm × 2-3 mm. Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile. Calyx tube narrowly obconic, 1.3-1.5 cm; lobes green, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.3-1.5 cm, margin scabrous, apex acute, midvein distinct. Corolla pale blue, usually pale yellow-white at base, with dark blue streaks and indistinct blue spots, obconic or obconic-tubular, 5-6 cm; lobes ovate, 7-8 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse; plicae ovate, 2-3 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse. Stamens inserted at middle of corolla tube; filaments 1-1.2 cm; anthers narrowly ellipsoid, 3-3.5 mm. Style 6-7 mm; stigma lobes linear. Capsules ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.5-2.7 cm; gynophore to 2.5 cm. Seeds light brown, ellipsoid, 0.8-1 mm. Fl. and fr. May-Oct.
2800-4400 m. S and W Sichuan, E Xizang, NW Yunnan [Myanmar]
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Re: Gentiana ornata
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2015, 03:54:52 PM »
There is a very fine photo of Gentiana ornata by Mojmír Pavelka in this issue of IRG  ( page 3):
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Sep281380401493IRG45September2013.pdf

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Re: Gentiana ornata
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2015, 03:57:28 PM »
....and for G. sino-ornata, see the cover of this issue of The Rock Garden
http://files.srgc.net/journals/SRGC_129.pdf for a photo by Milan Halada

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Re: Gentiana ornata
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2015, 04:25:49 PM »
Wow great  ;D
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Re: Gentiana ornata
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2015, 10:34:04 PM »
It certainly is a bit confusing nowadays. I used (50 years ago) to have distinct plants of each of the above but in the last years there have been so many named and un-named hybrids released onto a grateful but confused public that the distinctions have become very blurred. Mostly now I work on the principle that any gentian (of that "type") is a good gentian and don't worry too much about what's what. ???
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