even the brown things are reminiscent of horsetail shoots after flowering// in drying conditions in addition to the young shoots emerging that Dr Rawat pointed out. Thanks Dr Rawat.
not this sp. but the horsetail is a popular garden plant in sw usa flowering tops become very common sites all over the neighborhoods... called flowers of horsetail..strobilus ... <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strobilus> usha di On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 5:10 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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