Thanks for informing me of the current accepted name. As stated previously,
this planthas certainly undergone some name changes over the years!
But whatever the current taxonomic treatment/nomenclature, I'm afraid the
images from Uttarakhandon this site do not to me, seem to match well what I
understand to be 'Angelica' - what was Angelica archangelica.
My photos are consistent with pressed specimens in the Kew herbarium of what is
now A.oreada.
The overall habit of those images from Uttarakhand do not match those I have
just posted taken below Khelanmarg. Admittedly, I have not seen the plant in
flower and the fruits on the specimen I photographed were more advanced than
onthose specimens photographed in Uttarakhand (though still not mature - and
mature fruits are often required toproperly check such characteristics).
My FIRST concern is that whilst what is now Angelica oreada, does (at least the
forms in the UK which were recognised asa subspecies of Angelica archangelica)
whilst having numerous linear bracteoles, its bracts were absent or few,
caducous.
On my specimen I can see no bracts - the shots not close-up enough to see the
bracteoles, whereas the Uttarakhand specimenshave both prominent bracteoles and
bracts
I do consider this needs looking into further. Only a QUICK preliminary look
on my part - shall inspect further whentime permits.
Would welcome the thoughts of others. Perhaps it can be explained away by
variation between forms in Kashmir cf. thosein Uttarakhand but not sure about
this. Apiaceae is a TOUGH family identification-wise.
Best Wishes,
Chris Chadwell
81 Parlaunt Road
SLOUGH
SL3 8BE
UK
www.shpa.org.uk
From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]>
To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, 18 December 2016, 5:07
Subject: Fwd: Angelica archangelica var. himalaica in Kashmir
Thanks, Chadwell ji.Pl. also see Angelica oreada (current accepted name).
If you search Angelica archangelica var. himalaica in efi site, you will find
this at top of search results.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: C CHADWELL <[email protected]>
Date: 18 December 2016 at 01:41
Subject: Angelica archangelica var. himalaica in Kashmir
To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>
Here with what appears to be another new entry for eFI.
Presumably the images I attach are of Angelica archangelica L. var. himalaica
(C.B.Clarke) E.Nasir?
Numbers 1-4 photographed near Khelanmarg
Number 5 scanned in from a slide taken in the late 1980s in a UK garden.
According to the up-to-date version of 'The Plant List' I have just accessed
for the first time thisvariety and a subspecies of the same name by G.Singh are
unresolved names.
Stewart knew this plant as Archangelica officinalis var. himalaica, the largest
umbel in N.Pakistan & Kashmir,common by streams (where the specimen
photographed in the images below was located walking down fromKhelanmarg to
Gulmarg last time I was in Kashmir) and seepages @ about 3000-3600m.
Apparently this species is found in Central Nepal according to Bulletin of the
Medicinal Plants of Nepal(within 'Flora of Kathmandu Valley' it is recorded
from 2200m on Phulchoki) - though the genus is complicatedwith the authors of
'Enumeration of the Flowering Plants of Nepal' considering that a complete
monographic studywas needed to clarify relationships in this complex of
closely-related species.
Angelica cyclocarpa is also recorded from Nepal. Flowers of the Himalaya says
this species is found from CentralNepal to SE Tibet.
Hooker in FBI recorded Angelica officinalis from Kashmir & Sikkim. But 'Flora
of Bhutan' makes no mention of thisspecies.
He also recorded Angelica glauca from Kashmir to Shimla - which I shall comment
upon in a future post.
Interestingly, Angelica archangelica was formerly cultivated (for centuries)
and now +/- naturalised on river banks and inwaste places, locally abundant in
the UK. I live in what was the county of Buckinghamshire. There is an old
record (in Gerard's Herbal of 1597) for this plant nearby. At that time the
stems, candied were a favourite sweetmeat or etiolated,eaten as a celery.
Gerard claimed it was a remedy against the plague! The species is recorded
from Greeland, Iceland,Scandinavia, much of Europe and Central Russia, though
not all countries as a native plant but has become widely naturalised.
Best Wishes,
Chris Chadwell
81 Parlaunt Road
SLOUGH
SL3 8BE
UK
www.shpa.org.uk
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