Some one needs to investigate and go at the root of confusion. Clarke had in 1876 described Saussurea candicans Clarke, described in Flora of British India with Cirsium heteromallum Spreng and Carduus heteromallus as synonyms. He also mentioned Aplotaxis candicans DC. as first synonym. It seems a combination was made before Clarke by Sch.Bip. in 1846. Flora of Himalayas as well as Enumeration of Flowering Plants of Nepal consider Saussurea candicans (DC.) Sch.Bip. as synonym of Saussurea heteromalla (D. Don) Hand.-Mazz., ; Symb. Sin. 7: 1152 (1936), citing also as synonyms Aplotaxis candicans DC. and Cirsium heteromallum Spreng. This plant is now correctly known as *Himalaiella* *heteromalla* (D. Don) Raab-Straube, 2003. In above publications it seems there is no mention of Saussurea candicans Clarke, which is listed as distinct species, apparantly the synonyms mentioned in FBI were not correctly assigned.
It now seems that Saussurea candicans Clarke and Himalaiella heteromalla (D. Don) Raab-Straube are two very distinct plants, belonging to two different genera as per GRIN and The Plant List. *The Million dollar question is what is our common Himalayan plant (and the above one) and whether one or both grow in Himalayas. And if both occur here how to differentiate them. Not to forget that description given by Clarke for S. candicans is based on West Himalayan specimens.* -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]>wrote: > Surajit ji, > Thank you. > Regards, > Aarti > > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:57 AM, surajitkoley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Very nice flower again, Aarti Ji. >> >> Regards, >> surajit >> >> >> On Tuesday, 16 April 2013 09:50:29 UTC+5:30, Aarti S. Khale wrote: >>> >>> Thistle growing wild in the Jim Corbett area on 24/3/13. >>> Id please. >>> Aarti >>> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/CKkl67EB8Cc/unsubscribe?hl=en >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > > --- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
