1. Apiaceae ?- from Saroj ji 2. Dear Akshay - as for previous image, I repeat it is always much more difficult and time-consuming to reliably identify a plant when there is only a single image and there is insufficient close-up detail of floral parts and foliage. Some species within a genus can be distinctive enough and readily matched but it is always useful to have "supporting evidence". PLEASE, on future occasions take and submit many more images per specimen, in good focus and close-up - if you refer to my web-site on the flora of the NW Himalaya (see: *https://sites.google.com/a/shpa.org.uk/fowh/impatiens-1* <https://sites.google.com/a/shpa.org.uk/fowh/impatiens-1>) this will offer extensive advice; do look through the whole site but first see the images taken of Impatiens glandulifera showing much greater detail, obtained using a modest compact digital camera.As you can see, the images provide vastly more information - which I view as "clues", the equivalent to pieces in a jig-saw puzzle. The more pieces, which one can view clearly, the easier it is to arrive at an identification and the greater confidence one has in it. Otherwise one can readily end up with a misidentification. Too many data-bases, whether digital or old-fashioned printed ones, just with text or pictures, are littered with misidentified plants, which contributes to confusion and misleads.
The photo above is definitely a member of the Apiaceae family (previously known as Umbelliferae). This is a difficult family identification-wise, especially when detail is missing or the specimens are immature - at times mature fruits can be required to confirm an identification. Much more study of this family is required. Your single images fail to reveal important characteristics of the flowers and bracts plus one cannot tell what the lower leaves are like. I do not currently have the time, nor can justify the time, trying to work out which genus it belongs to. Perhaps other members of the group can? At first glance it seems distinctive. What seem to be Potentilla foliage is covering the base - it is important to examine the base/lower leaves of a plant and work out, at the time, which these are, so there is not any confusion. On quite a number of occasions I have seen posts on the efI data-base with comments showing that confusion had arisen as to which leaves belonged to the flower photographed. PLEASE photograph close-up, in good focus, much more detail incl. "undersides".- from Chadwell ji 3. Please check in *Selinum* (Apiaceae). DSRawat Pantnagar On 5 December 2017 at 07:40, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "akshay prashar" <prasharakshay...@gmail.com> > Date: 05-Dec-2017 12:35 AM > Subject: [efloraofindia:283022] Dear sir please help me to identify the > following species > To: "efloraofindia" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > Cc: > > Respected member, > > please help me to identify the following species > > Species for Identification - > > loaction - Deothachi ,Mandi District,Himachal Pradesh > > Altitude- 2800-3200m > > Date 12- August-2017 > *Thanks & Regards* > Akshay Prashar > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_1BkDp48uzk/WiWcamFgVdI/AAAAAAAAAkg/0iMBeTj_7BQozVO3nB8Rxroal6r4ujjzgCLcBGAs/s1600/WP_20170919_13_47_56_Pro.jpg> > > -- > 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 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. > -- 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 2800 members & 2,65,000 messages on 31.3.17) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 12,000 species & 2,50,000 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 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.
