Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: C CHADWELL <[email protected]> Date: 16 December 2016 at 02:35 Subject: Is this Allium semenovii Regel? To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> I am posting this fine image scanned in from a slide taken by the late Oleg Polunin during one of the final pony-treks he led for a group of plant enthusiasts who travelled from near Sonamarg into the Suru Valley in early 1980s. I believe it was taken in Ladakh territory. I came in as his last-minute replacement as leader of a trek in Miyah Nullah, Lahaul in 1985 (sadly, he passed away whilst we were in India). Strangely enough, I was born just a few hundred metres away from where he lived for many years whilst a botany master at Charterhouse Public School in the UK. Polunin was given leave (in addition to the summer school holidays to join mountaineering expedition, as non-climbing naturalist in the Karakoram and Nepal when it opened up to expeditions in the late 1940s and early 1950s - he joined the Polunin, Sykes & Williams Expedition to Nepal in 1952). Wilfred another master at Chaterhouse, got leave to join mountaineering expeditions. You will remember that it was 1953 when Everest was climbed for the first time from the south through Nepal - the early attempts to climb Everest pre-WWII were from Tibet, to the North. At that time, Nepal was closed to foreigners. Allium is a difficult genus identification-wise. Stewart recorded Allium semenovii from N.Pakistan and Ladakh including Pensi La & Suru plus in Kashmir including Sonamarg & Zoji La - so this all fits with where Oleg photographed it. He states that Wendelbo considered that this and Allium atrosanguineum differ in colour. Allium semenovii is always yellow. Dickore & Klimes do not have Allium semenovii in their Ladakh check-list (2005). Flowers of the Himalaya record it from open slopes & wet places @ 3000-4000m from Pakistan to Himachal Pradesh. There is no record of this species in 'Flora of Lahaul-Spiti'. There is an image (unfortunately out-of-focus, so of limited use and thus impossible to comment on the flowers: https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Semenov's%20Onion.html <https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Semenov%27s%20Onion.html> *What do other members think. Provisionally at least, this represents another first entry for eFI.* 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'. -- 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.
