Cirsium wallichii DC., 643 1838. (syn: Cirsium macracanthum Sch.Bip.; Cirsium nepalense DC.; Cirsium nepalensis DC.; Cirsium wallichii var. fasciculatum (Hook.f.) Raizada; Cirsium wallichii var. platylepis (Hook.f.) Aswal & Mehrotra; Cirsium wallichii var. wallichii ; Cirsium wallichii var. wightii (Hook.f.) Vivek.; Cnicus argyracanthus var. nepalensis (DC.) C.B.Clarke; Cnicus wallichii (DC.) C.B.Clarke; Cnicus wallichii Hook.f.; Cnicus wallichii var. cernua Hook.f.; Cnicus wallichii var. fasciculatum Hook.f. (unresolved); Cnicus wallichii var. nepalensis (DC.) Hook.f.; Cnicus wallichii var. platylepis Hook.f. (unresolved); Cnicus wallichii var. wallichii ; Echenais ferox Edgew. ex C.B.Clarke); Common name: Wallich's Thistle • Hindi:
Bungsee • Nepali: थकाल Thakal, kanta Similar to Cirsium verutum but having yellow to white heads, and inner involucre bracts with dilated tips. Thistle plant easily differentiated by white or pale pink flower heads in which tips of inner involucre bracts are not spiny, rather dilated; also spines are confined to margins of leaf at ends of lobes and not on its surface. Taller plant often reaching 2.5 m in height; leaves irregularly pinnately lobed, sessile, usually cottony on lower surface, tips of lobes with strong long spines; heads 2-4 cm across, solitary or clustered, white or pale pink; outer involucre bracts lanceolate ending in rigid spreading spines, inner with dilated tips.
Shrubs growing along the roadside.
1 post by 1 author. Cirsium wallichii DC. syn: Cnicus wallichii (DC.) C B Clarke Similar to Cirsium verutum but having yellow to white heads, and inner involucre bracts with dilated tips. Photographed from Kashmir.
Please help in identification of this compositae weed from Srinagar Cirsium wallichii
Cirsium wallichii DC. from Kashmir: Cirsium wallichii DC., ; Prodr. 6: 643, 1838 Syn: Cnicus wallichii (DC.) C. B. Clarke; Cirsium nepalense DC. Thistle plant easily differentiated by white or pale pink flower heads in which tips of inner involucre bracts are not spiny, rather dilated; also spines are confined to margins of leaf at ends of lobes and not on its surface. Taller plant often reaching 2.5 m in height; leaves irregularly pinnately lobed, sessile, usually cottony on lower surface, tips of lobes with strong long spines; heads 2-4 cm across, solitary or clustered, white or pale pink; outer involucre bracts lanceolate ending in rigid spreading spines, inner with dilated tips. Common in wastelands and roadsides. Photographed from Narbal, along Srinagar Gulmarg Road.
Location: Khajjiar, Himachal Pradesh Heads are too small for C. falconeri. I should be C. wallichii, notice broadened tips of involucre bracts
HP, Oct 2014 :: Requesting ID - Asteraceae :: ARKDEC-12 : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3) Requesting to please provide ID of this Asteraceae member captured near Manali, HP in October 2014. Cirsium wallichiithanks ... but would not you too like to see the lower leaves and their surface ? It is Cnicus argyracanthus. Thank you ... for the feedback... As per the plant list, Cnicus argyracanthus (var. nepalensis) as suggested by ... is a syn. of Cirsium wallichii.
Cirsium wallichii ABJUNE2017/01 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (8) I photographed some plants of this thistle this morning and am sharing these with you. Please correct me if I am wrongly identifying the plant. Cirsium wallichii Dal Lake, Dharamshala, HP 1850m 08 June 2017. You are right ... Very nice images...!! Superb images with great details.
please identify this plant from Uttarakhand. Cirsium wallichii I hope
Thistle for ID : Kashmir : 091011 : AK-1: Picture taken at Patni Top, Udhampur, Kashmir on the 5th of Sept, 11. Shrubs growing on the mountain slope. Could this be Cnicus wallichii....or Wallich'sThistle?
Symbiosis - West Himalayan Common Windmill butterfly on Cirsium wallichii : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Here i am attaching an image of Interaction Symbiosis - West Himalayan Common Windmill Butterfly (Byasa polyeuctes letincius) on Cirsium wallichii flower. Photographed at Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh Dated - 29June2018 Is there some book which can give details/identification about plant species in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Nepal, Kashmir? Wanted to know about angiosperms of all these regions. May be something like Jungle trees of Central India. I do not think there is any such book. Mostly there are local floras without many images. However, ... will guide us better. |
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