Thanks a lot, Chadwell ji. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: C CHADWELL <[email protected]> Date: 24 February 2017 at 19:11 Subject: Bryocarpum himalaicum - a NEW genus for eFI To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>
Not a good image - scanned in from a slide taken in the early 1990s whilst I was working as a consultant to The Royal Government of Bhutan but more or less anything is better than nothing. Even poor photos or scrappy herbarium specimens. Hopefully it will keep members on the look out for it in promising locations (at the right time of year i.e. April to June for its flowers) so they can take better, close-up images to share with us - or prompt those with better images to submit them. Bryocarpum himalaicum photographed at the edge of forest in Central Bhutan in April. Flora of Bhutan record this in Bhutan and Sikkim in coniferous woodlands @ 2700-4260m. Apart from a few localities in SE Tibet and E. Nepal, this species is confined to Bhutan and Sikkim, where it is relatively common. This unusual member of the Primulaceae has yellow corollas, lobes elongate-oblong, bidentate. It is separated from other members of the family, on the basis of its 7-merous flowers & narrowly cylindric capsules, dehiscing by apical cap. Another genus of Primluaceae which is not currently on the efI data-base is OMPHALOGRAMMA, represented in the Himalaya but a single species O.elwesiana found from E.Nepal to Arunachal Pradesh @ 3600-4000m on wet, open slopes. It is prominent on route to Barun Valley, Nepal. In Bhutan, Sikkim and Chumbi found in open marshy places @ 3350-4260m. *So why not undertake a spring-time trek to these places and bring back some wonderful images* *for eFI?* Best Wishes, Chris Chadwell 81 Parlaunt Road SLOUGH SL3 8BE UK www.shpa.org.uk -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> 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 'A Photoguide 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
