Expecting opinion from members! Thank you. Saroj Kasaju
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:38 AM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: 26-Jan-2017 10:04 AM > Subject: Re: SK340JAN24-2017:ID > To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > > This certainly appears to be a Gnaphalium. Enumeration of the Flowering > plants of Nepal lists 3 species: G.affine, G.hypoleucum & G.polycaulon - > there seems confusion over nomenclature. > > Flora of Kathmandu Valley gives 2 species: G.hypoleucum & G.luteo-album. > The latter species is recorded from 1300-2300m on open, dry slopes; > known as 'Kairo jhar'. Described as having golden-yellow heads in dense > corymbs. > > Flowers of Himalaya describe G.affine & G.hypoleucum; surprisingly they > have a photo of the latter species (not close-up and with flower-heads most > people would pay little attention to) but only a line drawing of the > brightly coloured G.affine - which is eye-catching. A photo of this > appears in the Supplement > to Flowers of the Himalaya but fewer people have this. > > *Of these, it seems to fit G.affine (syn. G.luteo-album var. multiceps) > which FoH says a very common weed in cultivated areas @ 1200-3000m from > Pakistan to **Bhutan & sub-tropical Asia. Flower-heads globular, bright > glistening yellow. AND, rather surprisingly, seems to be NEW to eFI.* > > Beware of the ALARMING number of synonyms some of the Gnaphaliums have. > G.polycaulon is described as a pantropic weed. > > On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 4:25:29 PM UTC, Saroj Kumar Kasaju wrote: > >> Dear members >> >> Location:Bajrabarahi,Nepal >> Altitude: 4700 ft. >> Date: 31 December 2016 >> >> Gnaphalium ...??? >> >> Thank you. >> >> Saroj Kasaju >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAEf%3DytSzXX-NDcCBfQTswV3iZQs4t2PfO2VbRjZP8u6Zzxoocg%40mail.gmail.com.
