Tabish ji I had seen that, but used this name as it has been an accepted name in our database FOI, and also GRIN. If we follow The Plant list we will have to change names of all Bistorta species in FOI.
-- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Balkar Arya <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very Nice Close-UP > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Ushadi micromini < > microminipho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks, Gurucharanji for showing me these rare things.... >> Beautiful photography to boot too !!! >> >> Usha di >> ======= >> >> On Aug 29, 8:08 pm, Tabish <tabi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Polygonum affine D. Don is the accepted name now >> > http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-50133712 >> > Status of Bistorta affinis not resolved. >> > - Tabish >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > > Bistorta affinis (D. Don) Greene, Leafl. bot. observ. 1:21, 1904 >> > >> > > syn: Polygonum affine D. Don; Persicaria affinis (D. Don) Ronse Decr. >> > > Common name: Himalayan fleece-flower >> > > Perennial plant with woody rootstock clothed with old stipules, and >> > > procumbent tufted branches up to 25 cm long; leaves mostly basal, >> > > elliptic-lanceolate, margins recurved, crenate, glabrous; stem leaves >> few; >> > > ochrea up to 1 cm long, many-nerved, brown; flowers pedicellate, white >> > > turning rosy with age, in compact 5-8 cm long erect spicate racemes; >> tepals >> > > 5, biseriate; stamens 8; ovary trigonous with long free styles; nut >> > > trigonous, 2-2.5 mm long. >> > > Photographed from Apharwat Mountain in Kashmir in August, often >> forming >> > > patches among rocky slopes, alt. 3500 m. >> > >> > > -- >> > > 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> > >> > -- >> > -------------------------------------------http://www.flowersofindia.in >> > The waterhole of flower lovers >> > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
