Polygonaceae undershrub

[Santhan P]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Polygonaceae undershrub, wild, ascending from Haripur way to Manali, Himachal 

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

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[Nidhan Singh]

Seems to be Fagopyrum esculentum...

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I am agreement that this is a Fagopyrum - Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is cultivated in the higher inner valleys of the Himalaya incl. Ladakh.

These images allow comparison with those of F.tartaricum photographed in Ladakh which is also cultivated there. Have not paid much attention to distinguishing between buckwheats before but what about F.dibotrys (which is not recorded for Ladakh)?  It is similar to F.esculentum; the location seems to fit for F.dibotrys and it was described as growing wild - though no doubt F.esculentum and F.tartaricum naturalise?  I have seen images on the internet of F.esculentum with white flowers incl. the Wikipedia entry but that does not guarantee the image has been correctly identified - and flower colour alone is seldom a reliable taxonomic character (surely a typically pink-flowered plant will have white forms). There has been confusion within previous posts about buckwheats. See Dr Singh's comments about how to distinguish between the two: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/Fagopyrum$20dibotrys$20/indiantreepix/pxlsqxCelog/F7TSeKnFZbcJ

In my comments about the images of what we think is F.tartaricum taken at Leh, I said there were good images of F.esculentum on Wikicommons but perhaps some of them are not of this species?

On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 04:59:03 UTC+1, Santhan P wrote:

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Chadwell ji

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[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

Seems to be Fagopyrum esculentum... -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh

I am agreement that this is a Fagopyrum - Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is cultivated in the higher inner valleys of the Himalaya incl. Ladakh.

These images allow comparison with those of F.tartaricum photographed in Ladakh which is also cultivated there. Have not paid much attention to distinguishing between buckwheats before but what about F.dibotrys (which is not recorded for Ladakh)?  It is similar to F.esculentum; the location seems to fit for F.dibotrys and it was described as growing wild - though no doubt F.esculentum and F.tartaricum naturalise?  I have seen images on the internet of F.esculentum with white flowers incl. the Wikipedia entry but that does not guarantee the image has been correctly identified - and flower colour alone is seldom a reliable taxonomic character (surely a typically pink-flowered plant will have white forms). There has been confusion within previous posts about buckwheats. See Dr Singh's comments about how to distinguish between the two: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/Fagopyrum$20dibotrys$20/indiantreepix/pxlsqxCelog/F7TSeKnFZbcJ

In my comments about the images of what we think is F.tartaricum taken at Leh, I said there were good images of F.esculentum on Wikicommons but perhaps some of them are not of this species?

From Chris Chadwell

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Polygonaceae undershrub, wild, ascending from Haripur way to Manali, Himachal 

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[Ritesh Kumar Choudhary]

This is Fagopyrum sp. (Polygonaceae)

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Ritesh

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[JM Garg]

Appears to be Fagopyrum dibotrys as per images and references herein and as per keys in Flora of Pakistan.  

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Yes Mr. Garg !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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