Dear Dr Rawat Well Done. I am in agreement that your suggestion is awfully close. Pity the images do notshow fully developed flowers or better close-ups. 'Enumeration of Flowering Plants of Nepal' say 1000-2600m Himalaya, India, east to W&C China, Malaysia. But the nomenclature is complicated. They have it as Melasma arvense. Hooker knew it as Alectra indica. Whichever genus is currently accepted, they have been transferred from Scrophulariaceae to Orobanchaceae. I hear some non-botanists thinking that not only do taxonomists change species names and names of generabut families as well! Unfortunately, M.arvense is not currently an accepted name on 'The Plant List' - I cannot readily find which genus it is included under here?
Best Wishes, Chris Chadwell 81 Parlaunt Road SLOUGH SL3 8BE UK www.shpa.org.uk From: D.S Rawat <drdsrawat.alpin...@gmail.com> To: C CHADWELL <chrischadwell...@btinternet.com> Cc: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com>; efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com>; Saroj Kasaju <kasajusa...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2016, 15:54 Subject: Re: Fwd: SK99SEP12-1016:ID I invested some time to find the ID of this plant which I have never seen in nature. It is either Melasma avense (=Alectra avensis) of Scrophulariaceae or a species very close to it. DSRawat Pantnagar Dr D.S.RawatDepartment of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIAeflorapantnagar displaying wild flora of Pantnagar On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:32 AM, C CHADWELL <chrischadwell...@btinternet.com> wrote: This plant is neither Rhinanthus minor (known as 'Yellow-Rattle' in the UK) nor R.glaber recordedfrom China. Neither have records for Nepal nor anywhere in the Himalaya proper, as far as I know. I shall see what I or others can come up with. These sub-tropical locations and associated flora are not familiarterritory for me..... Hopefully someone else can "come to the rescue". Seems quite distinctive, so someone shouldbe able to recognise it. By the way, two 'Rhinanthus' was included in 'Flora of British India' one a synonym for Pedicularis bifida (Scrophulariaceae)the other for Geniospermum elongatum (Lamiaceae). Best Wishes, Chris Chadwell 81 Parlaunt Road SLOUGH SL3 8BE UK www.shpa.org.uk From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups. com> Cc: Saroj Kasaju <kasajusa...@gmail.com>; D.S Rawat <drdsrawat.alpin...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, 17 October 2016, 8:20 Subject: Fwd: SK99SEP12-1016:ID Forwarding again for Id assistance please.Some earlier relevant feedback: | It was unfortunate that when I went to the spot after a couple of weeks to get pictures of the plant there was no trace of any plant . However, from your hint and comparison of web pictures I guess it could be Rhinanthus minor L. (accepted name). Request experts for opinion. Thank you. http://www.efloras.org/ florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2& taxon_id=200021241 Saroj kasaju | | Does not match with the illustration at the given link (of Rhinanthus glaber Lamarck syn: Rhinanthus major Ehrhart): http://www.efloras.org/object_ page.aspx?object_id=3778& flora_id=2 | | | ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Saroj Kasaju <kasajusa...@gmail.com> Date: 12 September 2016 at 14:53 Subject: SK99SEP12-1016:ID To: "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com>, efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups. com> Dear Mr. Garg, Sharing some pictures for ID shot at Gund Bhaktapur Nepal on 11 September 2016 at 5100 ft. Thank you. Saroj Kasaju -- With regards, J.M.Garg'Creating awareness of IndianFlora & Fauna'Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia. For identification,learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ joinour EfloraofindiaGoogle e-group (largestin the world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) orEfloraofindia website (with a species database of more than11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). 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). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image.Also author of 'APhotoguide 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.