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| genus = Aquilegia<br />
| species = × emodi<br />
| authority = [[Andrey Erst|Erst]]<ref name="POWO"/><br />
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'''''Aquilegia × emodi''''' is a [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Ranunculaceae]], native to the [[Western Himalayas]]. It is a natural [[Hybrid speciation|hybrid]] of ''[[Aquilegia bashahrica]]'' and ''[[Aquilegia pubiflora]]''.<ref name="POWO"/><br />
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==Description==<br />
''Aquilegia × emodi'' is a perennial [[herbaceous plant]] growing to {{cvt|20–80|cm|in|0}} in height. The leaves are thick and [[Glossary of leaf morphology#ternate|ternate]]. It produces 4–7 large, nodding, bicoloured flowers with oblong purple or violet [[sepal]]s {{cvt|2–3|cm|in|1}} in length and rounded oblong yellow or greenish-white [[petal]]s. The petals have purple or violet [[nectar spur]]s that are straight or hooked with a blackish tip. The [[stamen]]s are the same length as the petals, and the [[anther]]s are yellow, or occasionally black or mixed in colour.<ref name="Erst-2020"/><br />
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==Taxonomy==<br />
''Aquilegia × emodi'' is a natural hybrid of ''Aquilegia bashahrica'' and ''Aquilegia pubiflora''. It was formally described by Andrey Erst in 2020 from a [[Type (biology)|type specimen]] collected near [[Narkanda]] in [[Shimla District]], [[Himachal Pradesh]] on 10 May 1890.<ref name="Erst-2020"/><br />
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[[Molecular phylogenetics|Molecular phylogenetic]] studies suggest ''A. × emodi'' and its parent species belong to a [[monophyly|monophyletic]] West Asian group of columbines, which separated from its closest relatives around 3.37 million years ago in the mid-[[Pliocene]].<ref name="Fior-2013"/><br />
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===Etymology===<br />
The [[Binomial nomenclature|specific epithet]] ''emodi'' derives from the Sanskrit ''[[wikt:हिम#Sanskrit|hima]]'', meaning "snow".<ref name="Gledhill-2006"/><br />
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==Distribution and habitat==<br />
''Aquilegia × emodi'' is native to the Western Himalayas in northern India and western Nepal. It grows in mountainous forests at altitudes of {{cvt|2000–2600|m}}.<ref name="Erst-2020"/><br />
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==Conservation==<br />
{{As of|2025|January}}, the species has not been assessed for the [[IUCN Red List]].<ref name="IUCN"/><br />
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==Ecology==<br />
''Aquilegia × emodi'' flowers from April to May, and fruits from May to August.<ref name="Erst-2020"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name="Erst-2020">{{cite journal |last1=Erst |first1=Andrey S. |last2=Pendry |first2=Colin A. |last3=Erst |first3=Tatyana V. |last4=Ikeda |first4=Hiroshi |last5=Xiang |first5=Kunli |date=2020 |title=Two new taxa and one new record of Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) from India and Pakistan |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=439 |issue=2 |pages=108–118 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340665677 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.439.2.1 |access-date=1 December 2024}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Fior-2013">{{cite journal |last1= Fior|first1= Simone|last2= Li|first2= Mingai|last3= Oxelman|first3= Bengt|last4= Viola|first4= Roberto|last5= Hodges|first5= Scott A.|last6= Ometto|first6= Lino|last7= Varotto|first7= Claudio|title= Spatiotemporal reconstruction of the ''Aquilegia'' rapid radiation through next-generation sequencing of rapidly evolving cpDNA regions|journal= New Phytologist|year= 2013|volume= 198|issue= 2|pages= 579–592|doi=10.1111/nph.12163 |pmid= 23379348|doi-access= free|bibcode= 2013NewPh.198..579F}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Gledhill-2006">{{cite book |last1=Gledhill |first1=David |title=The names of plants |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=0521866456 |edition=4th. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC |accessdate=6 December 2024}}</ref><br />
<ref name="IUCN">{{cite web |title=Aquilegia - genus |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/search?taxonomies=105408&searchType=species |date=2024 |website=IUCN Red List |access-date=3 January 2025 }}</ref><br />
<ref name="POWO">{{cite POWO |title=''Aquilegia × emodi'' Erst |id=77209799-1 |accessdate=3 January 2025}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Aquilegia|emodi]]<br />
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[[Category:Taxa named by Andrey Sergeevich Erst]]</div>Mohammed Sajib