Thanks, Chadwell ji. On 15 November 2016 at 10:00, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:
> Carex is a large and difficult genus. I photographed 3 Carex in my own > village in the UK this year and have only, so far, been able to name one of > them. There is a guide to Carex published by the BSBI which I had a copy > of at one time but was damaged and discarded; I do not currently have the > budget to buy an up-dated version. Without it I will struggle (without > help) to name the other two. > > In the UK we are blessed with The Botanical Society of the British Isles > (BSBI) which has a Panel of Referees and Specialists available to have > material sent to them to identify. There are a number of specialists > available to accept specimens of *Carex* (either pressed and dried or in > some cases fresh) with certain ones with particular expertise in particular > groups or aggregates. *In all cases mature fruits and underground parts > should be sent.* I doubt if many of them would be able or willing to > attempt to name specimens on the basis of photos alone particular those not > of greater close-ups or with more mature fruits than shown in these images. > > Stewart commented that like the Carex alpina complex in the Himalaya, the > Carex nivalis complex is a very difficult one and the authorities do not > yet agree on the best way to handle it. Some one should study the group > cytologically to try and disentangle the threads. There seem to be groups > which Kukenthal in his Monograph called froms. Some have called them > varieties and still others consider some of them to be distinct species. > > Having said that, Stewart enlisted the help of various Carex specialists > to name the sedges of Pakistan & Kashmir incl. in the summer of 1964 Miss > Sheila Hooper who went over the rich material at Kew with him and made the > following key for the Carex gilesii-Carex griffithii-Carex mivalis complex: > > *1. Terminal spike usually entirely male; utricle distinctly but shortly > beaked C.gilesii* > * Terminal spike female below, male above; beak from almost nil to > distinct .....2* > > *2. Glumes and utricles black > ...............................................................................3* > * Glumes and utricles cinnamon brown ........................ > C.oliverii (C.nivalis forma cinnamomea)* > > *3 Glumes and utricles golden > ................................................ C.luteo-brunnea* > * Glumes and utricles not golden > ........................................................................4* > > *4 Glumes with a conspicuous green arista which exceeds the utricle > ..... C.nivalis forma griffithii* > * Glumes with a short mucro; beak of utricle short > ...................................C.nivalis var. nivalis* > > *Stewart records Carex nivalis as common from 3300-5100m*. > > *Gulmarg is at a significantly lower elevation than 3300m but the complex > is not well known, assuming it* > *is Carex nivalis.* > > > On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 12:11:29 PM UTC+1, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > >> Photographed from grassy slopes above Gulmarg, alt 8000 ft. 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