Correctly identified. This was known as Androsace poissonii to Smythe (who was not a botanist, relying upon Holdsworth in that department) within 'The Valley of Flowers' book.
I first came across this species above the Rohtang Pass in H.P. (this seems to be its NWesterly limit along the Himalaya). Flowers of the Himalaya give a distribution of Uttarakhand to SW China on stony slopes @ 4300-5200m but clearly it is found in H.P. as well. A delightful rock-jasmine with distinctive long silvery-white marginal bristles. On Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 2:28:56 PM UTC+1, Dr Pankaj Kumar wrote: > Androsace delavayi Franchet, J. Bot. (Morot). 9: 456. 1895. > > Family: Primulaceae > Distibution: China, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Myanmar. > Current pic taken on way to Hem Kunt Sahib. > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-YGks1eI86b8/UDjS6f1YvMI/AAAAAAAABWM/ALO1ixJ-quY/s1600/ANDRASACE+DELAVAYI.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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
