Yes it is new for eFI. Thank you for sending this. It is not so uncommon and its absence in eFI is a bit surprising. I have seen it in a plenty in Dalisera Alpine zone where it characteristically grow under the canopy of *Rhododendron campanulatum*. At other places it may grow on steep subalpine and alpine meadows. I have even eaten leaves as green vegetable (it is edible) and tastes like other brassicaceae members but with a little more pungency. Root is fusiform and medicinal.
DSRawat Pantnagar On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 1:17:05 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > > Thanks, Chadwell ji. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: C CHADWELL <[email protected]> > Date: 18 December 2016 at 12:45 > Subject: Re: Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > Yes - again! See attached. > > > Best Wishes, > > > Chris Chadwell > > > 81 Parlaunt Road > SLOUGH > SL3 8BE > UK > > www.shpa.org.uk > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Sunday, 18 December 2016, 7:08 > *Subject:* Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra > > I think you missed the attachment. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *C CHADWELL* <[email protected]> > Date: 18 December 2016 at 11:45 > Subject: Megacarpaea polyandra > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > Since we are looking at tall umbellifers at present incl. Angelicas, > thought of sharing this. > > I attach a single image scanned in from a not especially good slide taken > of a plant > in cultivation by Alastair McKelvie in the UK. > > Looks like a first for eFI, so this is especially useful. > > I have never 'encountered' Megacarpaea polyandra in the Himalaya myself. > > Flowers of Himalaya says open slopes, light forests @ 3000-4300m from > Kashmir to C.Nepal. > > Stewart recorded 2 species from N.Pakistan and Kashmir: > > M.bifida - N.Pakistan > M.polyandra - Kashmir, where he said it was used for greens; 3000-3900m. > Records from Khelanmarg > and 'W.Tibet'. > > M.polyandra is not mentioned in 'Plants of Gulmarg' Naqshi, Singh & Koul. > > Has it been seen in Uttarakhand in recent years? It is given in a > Supplementary List of plants collected by > Holdsworth in the 'Valley of Flowers' and Upper Garwhal within the book > 'The Valley of Flowers'. > > > Best Wishes, > > > Chris Chadwell > > > 81 Parlaunt Road > SLOUGH > SL3 8BE > UK > > www.shpa.org.uk > > > > > > > > -- > 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 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). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > > > > > -- > 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 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). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- 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.
