Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> Date: 31 August 2012 21:03 Subject: [efloraofindia:127661] VoF Week :: DV :: 02 AUG 12 - 0309 :: Rhodiola ¿ wallichiana ? To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> [image: Valley of Flowers]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F7795632618%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzfiscXcV1ezkljkoVaSBkd-7VO2FQ> 2 AUG 12 Valley of Flowers ... about 10400 ft ------------------------------ Dear friends, ID please. *Habitat*: among rocks *Habit*: gregarious small herb many branched from base, about 30 - 40 cm high; leaf about 2 - 3 cm long, flower size - not sure. ... reading through descriptions of Rhodiola in eFloras, Flowers of Himalaya and Keshava Murthy's VoF book, have confused myself ... getting a feeling that plant posted as Rhodiola wallichiana along Hemakund - Ghangaria<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/-g7HlBBNJcc/W5FLrnIhj-IJ> trail may be *Rhodiola imbricata*. [image: Rhodiola ¿ wallichiana ?]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F7900460060%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeP5Zwiu0fon6DO84rrsrBirev9xA> [image: Rhodiola ¿ wallichiana ?]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F7843274886%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdFGTghoYgs3-YgHuXXc_VKtHJZzQ> [image: Rhodiola ¿ wallichiana ?]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F7843278858%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzftD4Wd9cMnQBd33KEetOQjQP9aaw> Regards. Dinesh -- -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1950 members & 1,27,800 messages on 31/8/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --
