Dear Colleagues Going by records in the books and net Gentiana carinata seems to be one of the commonest species in Himalayas, abundant on Gulmarg meadow of Kashmir, but going by my upload of G. hugelii (supported by specimens quoted by S. Omer of Pakistan, who seems to have done lot of genus changes. He does not quote single specimen from Gulmarg or Khillenmarg for G. carinata (his Qaisera carinata)), The identity and distribution seems doubtful in my mind. The photograph of G. carinata in Flowers of Himalaya, Flowers of India and two net links I have cited earlier and am repeating here:
http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Dark%20Blue%20Gentian.html http://www.gentians.be/index.php?page=plant_portraits&pic=78 http://www.alpines.be/central-nepal/#!modal-window[gallery]/21/ In all these photographs I don't detect any trace of fimbriae, a supposedly distinctive character of the species. May be we get more convincing photographs of the species. 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/ -- 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 email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
