Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. Some earlier relevant feedback: Please check for Saussurea candicans ...!! -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh
It is Himalaiella heteromalla (D.Don) Raab-Straube (Asteraceae). (earlier Saussurea heteromalla) DSRawat Pantnagar From another thread Thistle For ID : Uttarakhand : 160413 : AK-1 <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/CKkl67EB8Cc> : Some one needs to investigate and go at the root of confusion. Clarke had in 1876 described *Saussurea candicans* Clarke, described in Flora of British India with *Cirsium heteromallum* Spreng and *Carduus heteromallus* as synonyms. He also mentioned *Aplotaxis candicans* DC. as first synonym. It seems a combination was made before Clarke by Sch.Bip. in 1846. Flora of Himalayas as well as Enumeration of Flowering Plants of Nepal consider *Saussurea candicans* (DC.) Sch.Bip. as synonym of *Saussurea heteromalla* (D. Don) Hand.-Mazz., ; Symb. Sin. 7: 1152 (1936), citing also as synonyms *Aplotaxis candicans* DC. and *Cirsium heteromallum* Spreng. This plant is now correctly known as *Himalaiella* *heteromalla* (D. Don) Raab-Straube, 2003. In above publications it seems there is no mention of *Saussurea candicans* Clarke, which is listed as distinct species, apparantly the synonyms mentioned in FBI were not correctly assigned. It now seems that *Saussurea candicans* Clarke and *Himalaiella heteromalla* (D. Don) Raab-Straube are two very distinct plants, belonging to two different genera as per GRIN and The Plant List. The Million dollar question is what is our common Himalayan plant (and the above one) and whether one or both grow in Himalayas. And if both occur here how to differentiate them. Not to forget that description given by Clarke for S. candicans is based on West Himalayan specimens*.* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: N Arun <[email protected]> Date: 12 March 2015 at 16:38 Subject: [efloraofindia:217921] AKMAR2015 03/03 Please id this Asteraceae herb. To: [email protected] FRI, Dehradun <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-VCTtazdRs3k/VQFzGzcNPRI/AAAAAAAADKE/JOJn_RZkJUg/s1600/DSC_1060%2B%28Large%29.JPG> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u_1rAid1XTY/VQFzM_e6rhI/AAAAAAAADKM/KLrj94l6R80/s1600/DSC_1090%2B%28Large%29.JPG> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1o_mxpxoTXg/VQFzcSjyxaI/AAAAAAAADKU/sryV1xENuZA/s1600/DSC_1062%2B%28Large%29.JPG> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pny7XbqDOdY/VQFzCZC-t4I/AAAAAAAADJ8/0GZO3dsI-6A/s1600/DSC_1054%2B%28Large%29.JPG> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
