Help me to identify Equisetum sp. from kashmir

[Shakir Ahmad]

[J.M. Garg]

Beautiful images, Shakir ji

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J. M. Garg

On Wed, 23 Nov, 2022, 11:24 am Shakir Ahmad, <saadiks...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Saroj Kasaju]

It is a difficult sp. and images are not sufficient. Guess Equisetum palustre L. !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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[Shakir Ahmad]

One more image

[Saroj Kasaju]

Please check !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

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From: Shakir Ahmad <saadiks...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 at 11:24
Subject: [efloraofindia:437184] Help me to identify Equisetum sp. from kashmir
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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks a lot, Chris ji

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From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins <>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec, 2022, 6:19 pm
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:437184] Help me to identify Equisetum sp. from kashmir
To: J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com>

These are Equisetum diffusum.  A. Soni sent me the first two (without collector) and I told him they are inadequate as we must see a close-up of the stem-sheath and teeth, to see if the ridges below the teeth are double or single, and I had to see a little of the stem below the strobilus to see if it was green and branched - all characters of E. diffusum as opposed to E. arvense.

So your  last photo, which I hadn't seen before, shows (just!) that it is diffusum with double ridges.

Glad you showed the tip of the come as that shows it is not E. ramosissimum which, despite its great variation in branching forms, always has a pointed little mucro at the top of the cone.

Best wishes,

     Chris Fraser-Jenkins, chriso...@yahoo.co.uk

P.S. in J. & K., E. arvense is generally commoner, and higher and further into the valley etc., but you get E. diffusum more commonly in the outer hills and foothills, where was it from in J. & K. (and A.K.).?

[Shakir Ahmad]

Thanks Chris sir... 

The specimen was collected from ganderbal district of Kashmir India

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Chris ji

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From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins <>

Date: Mon, 5 Dec, 2022, 8:45 pm
Subject: How's this for Taphrina infection!?
To: J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com>

Dear all,

       I just came across my photo of a really heavy infection of the ascomycete fungus, Taphrina laurenciana, which produces small leaf-like galls in compound Pteris species in N.E. and S. India in high rainfall areas.  As it causes much confusion, I thought it might be of general interest.

The poor old Pteris under attack is P. aspericaulis (CRFJ 26152, Field no. 2130), from N. of Pokhara, Nepal.  Fortunately there is no Taphrina humanifestans in existence despite al the modern horror-films that seem to like the idea!

Please show the label as well.

Best wishes,

      Chris Fraser-Jenkins, Portugal.