upper Chamba id al300811a

[Alok Mahendroo]

Dear friends,
Looking back as hindsight.. I realise that I should have spent more time
photographing better images... except for the fact that I was still in
the middle of nowhere and had miles to go before I would sleep....

Location Chamba
Altitude 4500 mts
Habit herb
Habitat wild
Plant height 12 inches

regards
Alok
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[Gurcharan Singh]

Valeriana sp

Basal and middle leaves need to be seen for species fixation.

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[Alok Mahendroo]

Sir, these are the best enlargements I can take from the high-res
photos...
Regards
Alok

[Satish Phadke]

Alok ji

Your experience is not different than many others.

The same thing happened with me during my Spiti visit. Most of my group members were interested in watching birds and I used to be the laggard running behind plants.

Anyway you are from Himalayan region. You may get time again to observe these plants again and take more photographs. We are enjoying the genera at least. Keep posting.

Dr Phadke

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Alok Mahendroo <alokis...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Gurcharan Singh]

I will go with V. pyrolaefolia

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[Alok Mahendroo]

Ahhh.. yes sir, I remember your own id keys...

"Perhaps it should be understood that all three species V. pyrolaefolia,
V.jatamansii and V. hardwickii have simple basal leaves. In V.
pyrolaefolia cauline are also simple, in V. jatamansii cauline 3-fid and
in Hardwickii cauline 3-7 pinnatipartite"

I guess I should revise my lessons more often...
Thank you once again sir..
regards
Alok
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:35 +0530, Gurcharan Singh wrote:
> pyrolaefolia

[Gurcharan Singh]

Alok ji

Perhaps some more searching. Although basal leaves are not cordate, I see some cauline leaves with basal lobes. So V. jatamansi is also under consideration.

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[J.M. Garg]

Appears more closer to the images at Valeriana himalayana Grubov

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