ID pending! Thank you.
Saroj Kasaju On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 4:43 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > Ephedra identification is often challenging - especially as most of the > specimens encountered have no flowers or fruit. The joint-pines are > adapted to the low-rainfall of Tibetan borderlands. The leaves are reduced > to scales on the stems (helping reduce the loss of water through > transpiration), which are green for photosynthesis. > > *E.geradiana* is understood to be the common, widespread species along > the Himalaya (or more accurately, along the borderlands of Tibet). I agree > that the images do not match *E.geradiana*. 3 species are recorded from > Ladakh: *E.geradiana*, *E.intermedia* and *E.regelii* according to > Dickore & Klimes. Stewart records all three. As for *E.pachyclada*, he > states that Riedl. does not report this from Pakistan or Kashmir. However, > Kitamura reported it from the Chaman Pass on the Baluchistan-Afghan > border. Boiss. reported it from "W.Tibet", probably Ladakh. > > I consider the range of the species is poorly known. Fortunately, I have > a much better (but far from perfect) idea about the three main species in > Ladakh than I did just a few months ago but still consider myself a novice > with Ephedras. The images are not of *E.regelii*. I currently think > they most likely are within *E.intermedia* but will consider > *E.pachyclada*. Can anyone say with confidence which species and how > one differentiates between E.intermedia and E.pachyclada? > > efloraofPakistan for Ephedra: http://www.efloras.org/florata > xon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=111784 But how reliable is this key? > Cannot make out any wart-like projections on the stems in the close-up > image but cannot see the characteristics describe for E.pachyclada > either..... > - > from Chris Chadwell ji. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Saroj Kasaju <[email protected]> > Date: 29 September 2016 at 22:49 > Subject: Ephedra pachyclada Boiss. ??? > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, "J.M. Garg" < > [email protected]> > > > Dear Members, > > Sharing some pictures I guess ia *Ephedra pachyclada* Boiss. shot at Leh > on 22 August 2016. > > I don't think it matches with Ephedra gerardiana > . > Thank you. > > Saroj Kasaju > > > > -- > 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.
