Dear Mr. Chadwell,
Thanks for the compliments. I sure will try to contribute more such images of high Himalayan plants. Regards, Dr. G S Goraya, IFS Deputy Director General (Research), Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, New Forest P.O., Dehradun - 248006. (Uttarakhand, India) Tel. (+91-941-802-5036) ________________________________ From: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> on behalf of C CHADWELL <chrischadwell...@btinternet.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 8:51 AM To: gurinder goraya; efloraofindia Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:260183] Re: Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra I enjoyed your images particularly the one showing the pods so well combined with a distant view of the mountains. Such 'habitat' shots are so informative - it really is important to know and understand the conditions under which a plant grows, rather than just its identity. Such insights are often completely missing from pressed specimens in herbaria (regardless of their quality) as accompanying field notes are so often minimal to zero and even when detailed cannot match what a good photo imparts. Field experience and knowledge is under-valued and something contributing members of this group can contribute much valuable information towards by posting their images. Do share more such images of a variety of species with us. My compliments. As to identity. The broadly winged fruits appear quite distinctive (not that I have gone into the Brassicaceae family in any detail yet) and as far as is thought at present, only 1 species to consider - which always comes as a relief! Of course we must always STEEL ourselves for a future revision to recognise additional taxa. Plus someone check that there has not been a nomenclatural or taxonomic change as far as genus or family is concerned.... Best Wishes, Chris Chadwell 81 Parlaunt Road SLOUGH SL3 8BE UK www.shpa.org.uk<http://www.shpa.org.uk/> Chris Chadwell<http://www.shpa.org.uk/> www.shpa.org.uk Chris Chadwell - Freelance Lecturer, Botanist, Himalaya Specialist, Travel and Plant Photographer, Freelance photo-journalist ________________________________ From: gurinder goraya <gurind...@hotmail.com> To: "chrischadwell...@btinternet.com" <chrischadwell...@btinternet.com>; efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> Sent: Saturday, 24 December 2016, 3:31 Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:259925] Re: Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra Dears, I have dug up a couple of images I clicked at altitude of about 4000 m asl in September 2014 while on a trek to a high altitude lake in Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh. I am attaching these two images I think are of Megacarpaea polyandra. Kindly confirm. Regards, Dr. G S Goraya, IFS Deputy Director General (Research), Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, New Forest P.O., Dehradun - 248006. (Uttarakhand, India) Tel. (+91-941-802-5036) ________________________________ From: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> on behalf of chrischadwell...@btinternet.com <chrischadwell...@btinternet.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 6:58 AM To: efloraofindia Cc: chrischadwell...@btinternet.com Subject: [efloraofindia:259592] Re: Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra 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 <chrischa...@btinternet. com> Date: 18 December 2016 at 12:45 Subject: Re: Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra To: "J.M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com> Yes - again! See attached. Best Wishes, Chris Chadwell 81 Parlaunt Road SLOUGH SL3 8BE UK www.shpa.org.uk<http://www.shpa.org.uk/> ________________________________ From: J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com> To: chrischa...@btinternet. com Sent: Sunday, 18 December 2016, 7:08 Subject: Fwd: Megacarpaea polyandra I think you missed the attachment. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: C CHADWELL <chrischa...@btinternet. com> Date: 18 December 2016 at 11:45 Subject: Megacarpaea polyandra To: "J.M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com> 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'. 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