Thanks for your interesting comments Dr Rawat. Hopefully, members can now spot and post better, digital images including quality close-ups of this plant. I find many Apiaceae have attractive or at least curious parts to them, well worth showing in detail - as I do when giving digital presentations on 'Wild Flowers of Britain' to audiences in the UK. I will check my images of UK members of this family and if any exhibiting such characteristics belong to genera or, ideally, species found in the Himalaya, may post some.
Many people in the UK will "dismiss" or walk past plants belonging to particular families or genera viewing them of rather 'weedy appearance' missing genuine beauty if they examined them more closely. I have been "Hit" by the additional detail my digital images bring when examining UK plants closely in the past couple of years compared with what I had seen with the naked eye and hand lens back in the 1980s when I worked for a couple of years a field-surveyor of plants. I also notice the extra detail I can see compared with the books published at that time containing photographs of British Wild Flowers. How fortunate we are nowadays. On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 7:47:05 AM UTC, JM Garg wrote: > Thanks, Chadwell ji. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: C CHADWELL <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: 18 December 2016 at 12:45 > Subject: Re: Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > > 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] <javascript:>> > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Sent:* Sunday, 18 December 2016, 7:08 > *Subject:* Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra > > I think you missed the attachment. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *C CHADWELL* <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: 18 December 2016 at 11:45 > Subject: Megacarpaea polyandra > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > > 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). 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