Thanks Gurcharan ji, I am in the process of cleaning up names at FOI. But it will happen slowly, with 3,400+ species. - Tabish
On Aug 29, 10:09 pm, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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: 9810359089http://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