A reply: "In link below mistakenly identified as *Balanophora involucrata*, I thank Rawat Sir for finding the error. Yes, this is *Equisetum arvense*. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/q_DsA4LC5tY Kind regards, Varun"
On 9 February 2016 at 17:27, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > While inserting images of *Balanophora* species in eFI I found these two > images mentioned as *B.involucrata*. To me these requires rethinking of > ID. These resembles to *Equisetum arvense* cones (strobilus), a species > known at this altitude in the Himalaya. Please see > <https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/equisetum/arvense/> > My opinion is also based on the second picture in which some green young > shoots of *Equisetum* are emerging from the soil just at the base of > right cone bearing stems. Please see attached image. > DSRawat Pantnagar > > > On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 1:46:10 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: >> >> Thanks, Varun ji. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> >> Date: 20 December 2015 at 13:43 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:237391] Fwd: >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> Cc: Varun Sharma <[email protected]> >> >> >> Thanks, Varun ji. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Varun Sharma <[email protected]> >> Date: 20 December 2015 at 09:23 >> Subject: >> To: JM Garg <[email protected]> >> >> >> Dear Sir, >> >> Please find attached files. >> >> *Balanophora involucrata* Hook.f. & Thomson >> >> >> Location: Spiti valley, Lahaul Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India >> Altitude: 3515m (sml) >> Lat Long: 32°18'4.38"N, 77°25'10.94" >> Habitat: Found parasitic to *Rhododendron campanulatum* roots. >> >> Literature Reference: Flora of India Vol 23, Botanical Survey of India >> >> *Balanophora involucrata* Hook.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc., London 22: 30, >> 44, tt. 4 - 7. 1856 & Fl. Brit. India 5: 237. 1886.Syn: *Balania >> involucrata* (Hook. fil.) van Tiegh.; *Bivolva involucrata* Van Tiegh. >> >> Plants monoecious or dioecious (inflorescences bisexual or unisexual), >> erect, fleshy, glabrous, yellowish white to yellow or red, 8 - 15 (-20) cm >> long from fusion point with host root; tubers in a mass, up to 10 cm in >> diam., branching from base; single tuber urceolate with more or less >> irregularly lobed rim, 3 - 5 x 1.5 - 2 cm. Stems stout, bursting through >> the rootstock, sheathed halfway by 2 - 4 verticillate scaly leaves in one >> whorl at the middle of the stem, partially connate, ovate, 2 - 3 x 1 - 1.5 >> mm. Spadices unisexual or bisexual, ovoid or subglobose, 2 - 3.5 x 1 - 2 >> cm, red or yellow. Male flowers in bisexual spadices confined to a zone of >> about 5 mm high, just below the female portion or when unisexual, the >> spadices ovoid, 1 - 3.5 x 0.9 - 3.5 cm; bracts short, truncate or in >> unisexual flowers connate together, forming more or less hexagonal alveoles >> from the bottom of which male flowers appear; pedicels 2 - 7 mm long; >> perianth limb lobes 3 (4 or 5), broadly ovate-obtuse, ca 1.7 mm long, >> thick; synandrium subglobose, much depressed; anthers 4, transversely >> oblong. Female flowers: spadices ovoid, 1 - 2 x 0.8 - 2; spadicles >> obconical; flowers on main rachis of inflorescences only, numerous, >> interspersed with globulate or clavate bracts, 0.5 - 0.8 mm long; cuticular >> ridges on top cells narrow, forming complicated labyrinth-like system; >> ovary ovoid, compressed, ca 0.2 mm long; largest flowers with pistils up to >> 700 μm long; carpels ca 200 μm long. >> >> *Fl.* June - Oct., *Fr*. July - Dec. >> >> *Distrib.* India: Cool montane coniferous forests, 1500 - 4500 m on >> Himalayas from Kashmir to NE. India and Peninsular India. >> >> Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, China to E. Asian subcontinent. >> >> *Notes.* Parasitic on *Acer* spp., Araliaceae, *Berberis * spp., >> *Rhododendron >> * spp., *Quercus * spp., *Pinus * spp., *Rubus * spp., etc. The >> rootstock forms large woody knots on tree roots, which find use for making >> drinking cups in Bhutan and Sikkim >> >> Used in ethnomedicinal system by locals to cure cough & cold, piles and >> rheumatism. >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Varun >> >> <https://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> >> >> Get your own *FREE* website, *FREE* domain & *FREE* mobile app with >> Company email. >> *Know More >* >> <http://track.rediff.com/click?url=___http://businessemail.rediff.com?sc_cid=sign-1-10-13___&cmp=host&lnk=sign-1-10-13&nsrv1=host> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> 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 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18.6.15) or >> Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,00,000 images). >> >> 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). 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