I have just checked the Edinburgh Herbarium site. This has a number of images of this species - with the considerable advantage over the Kew Herbarium site that the scans are of much higher resolution, so provided one downloads the TIFF images at high resolution, one can zoom in to see much closer. The problem now is that the photos above do not show close-up of the spikelets so one cannot match with confidence. The specimens at Edinburgh are certainly close to the plant photographed but I cannot identify with certainty. Perhaps a Carex specialist can? See: http://elmer.rbge.org.uk/bgbase/vherb/bgbasevherb.php?current__names_family=¤t__names_genus=Carex¤t__names_species=cruenta&coll__name=&coll_num=&specimens_barcode=&full__name=&specimens_region=&cfg=bgbase%2Fvherb%2Fbgbasevherb.cfg .
*What a pity more herbaria do not scan in specimens at higher resolutions. But one must be understanding and patient as establishments like Kew have millions of specimens and only a small number of staff available to undertake the scanning. But it has to be said that low resolution scans are of strictly limited value.* *The greater the detail which can be seen, the better the understanding of species and genera. The same applies to photos - the more close-ups, in focus, the more information which is provided (as along as different parts of the part are photographed), though images of the overall habit and habit of a plant are of use/valuable.* On Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 7:41:17 AM UTC, JM Garg wrote: > Wild Grass captured on 13/8/10 during the trek from Ghangaria (around > 11,000 ft.) to Hemkunt Sahib (around 14000 ft.). > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected] <javascript:>) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* > & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image > . > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1460 members & > 55,000 messages on 29/11/10 & with a database of around 4300 species on > 31/10/10) > > -- 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.
