Flora of Uttarakhand- Herb17 for Id- JM

[jmgarg1]

Wild Herb captured on 13/8/10 during the trek from Ghangaria (around 11,000 ft.) to Hemkunt Sahib (around 14000 ft.).

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[Ritesh Choudhary]

Dear Gargji,

This is Koenigia nepalensis D. Don (=Polygonum filicaule Wall. ex
Meissn. according to Tropicos).

For long time, this has been kept unidentified on FOI site.

Regards,
Ritesh.

On Nov 19, 3:27 pm, jmgarg1 <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wild Herb captured on 13/8/10 during the trek from Ghangaria (around 11,000
> ft.) to Hemkunt Sahib (around 14000 ft.).
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> With regards,

> J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1

> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'

> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* &

> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged
> alphabetically & place-wise):http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them
> for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image.
> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora,

> please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix(more than 1420 members &

> 52,000 messages on 26/10/10 & with a database of around 4200 species on
> 30/9/10)
>

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[tanay bose]

The plant quite matches with the description of Koenigia nepalensis from Eflora of Pakistan

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242100084

Tanay

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[Pankaj Kumar]

Koenigia nepalensis D.Don Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 74. 1825

Type: Anonymous, s.n. (BM000521991) - according to JSTOR
Regards
Pankaj

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