Saussurea glacialis Herder, in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xi. (1867) II. 144. 144 1867. (Syn: Saussurea pamirica C.Winkl.; Saussurea violacea Pamp.);
Request for ID confirmation. Can this plant be Saussurea glacialis Location: Paddar valley J&K Date: 7th August 2011 Altitude: 4700 meters asl Kindly have a look on below link. http://164.100.52.111/pic.asp?iCat=7&iPic=75 I think it could be Saussurea gnaphalodes (Royle ex Candolle) Schultz or Saussurea glacialis, both very close and reported from Kashmir and very closely similar Saussurea gnaphalodes Saussurea glacialis Yes I too will go with Saussurea gnaphalodes Looking at the descriptions and photographs, I think ... is right It could be S. glacialis Saussurea glacialis (Asteraceae) photographed near Roopkund (Chamoli) Uttarakhand. 4800m altitude. Validation from experts required. Again a beauty ... Beautiful collection of plants. Enjoyed them all. efi page on Saussurea glacialis Pl. see earlier thread on this species by ...: Saussurea sp. from Paddar valley J&K. 01 & confirmed by ...
Location : Way to Khardung La, India Altitude: Around 15-16000 Date: 24 August 2014 Habit : Wild Saussurea sp. ??? Which one ? This species is most probably Saussurea glacilis Herder but I cant say surely because some more confusing species of Saussurea are also found in Ladakh. Thank you ...! Saussurea glacialis Herder ?? ... : Your opinion please. Sorry ..., Can't say! Saussurea glacialis Thank you ... Saussurea glacialis Herd.
Kailash-Manasarovar Yatra::Saussurea inversa NSJ-OCT 16/11 : 8 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3) Saussurea inversa for validation. Photo taken just after crossing Lipulekh pass (China border) on Aug 27, 2016. Height approx 15000 feet. Interesting Saussurea species. A trans-Himalayan one as I suppose. S. inversa is not known in Uttarakhand. This is a new 'species' for me but I am doubtful it is S.inversa on the basis of the image taken in Paddar Valley named as such on the FOI site see: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Inverse%20Snow%20Lotus.html which is presumably where the provisional name came from matching with? Not recorded from Ladakh or known in Stewart's day (assuming it is found in W.Himalaya). Not in 'Enumeration of Flowering Plants of Nepal'. Many 'new' species have been described in the Himalaya in recent decades - a complicated genus (like so many). As for existing species, there is much confusion between S.simpsoniana and S.gossypiphora in the W.Himalaya. As two of our members named the image on the FOI site they are in a much better position to comment further, especially as I do not recognise these images or the one from the Paddar Valley but the images do not come close to me. Just noticed that an article on Research Gate, see: The_genus_Saussurea_Compositae_Cardueae_in_China_Taxonomic_and_nomenclatural_notes states that S.sorocephala var. glabrata is raised to specific rank as S.inversa. Stewart had S.sorocephala Schrenk as a synonym of S.gnaphalodes (which is common in Laadkh); he thought this variety seemed to be the same as S.hypsipeta Diels (yet does not list this species in his Catalogue) and probably should be considered only to be a glabrate form. Saussurea hypsipeta is listed by Dickore & Klimes from Ladakh- there is an excellent image of it by our member Miroslav: http://www.butbn.cas.cz/ladakh/fotky/flora/subnival_eng.html. Clearly, ... may be able to comment in a more informed way than me. To me it appears close to Saussurea glacialis Herder as per image herein. Pleased to learn of this. But Saussurea glacialis is not on 'The Plant List' as an accepted name. Nor is the synonym in the link. Can you say which species it is included under in 'The Plant List'? Saussurea remains a difficult genus with frequent mix-ups. May I request (and this applies for every plant of every genus) that photographers take more than just one general shot (covering the plant's habit and flowers). It is so helpful for reliably identifying plants to have close-ups of various parts of the flowers (or flower-heads in the case of Saussurea) not forgetting close-ups of leaves (both upper and lower surface) plus a habitat shot or two. Nowadays I am to take a minimum of 10-20 images per plant. I appreciated it is demanding to do this at the highest altitudes esp. 4000-5000m but with practise one speeds up and gets into doing this automatically. It is often so much harder to attempt to name a plant from a single image, which at times does not show the important details. Yes, it is possible to do this is many cases but other times it becomes very difficult - and for others, using such images, it does not help much when distinguishing between closely-related species. Often the images in 'Flowers of the Himalaya' e.g. though good enough when published in the early 1980s (and only economic to printed a single image per species), with the aid of digital photography and web-sites, we need to be aiming to have, at the least, several images for each species. At times we are trying to do the impossible with images which do not show the characteristics we need to see to be confident as to identifications. And we need images of a species from a number of locations, which help to illustrate intra-specific variation, helping us not to think something belongs to a different species altogether or mistakenly that it is "new to science". I went through Stewart again and see that S.glacialis Herder was given as a synonym for S.chthonocephala Bornm. - recorded from Chitral but not Ladakh. It was said to be near S.thomsonii Clarke. As for S.thomsonii this was recorded from Nubra & Tibet, described as dwarf, stemless, coriaceous, heads small, congested. Like a dwarf S.atkiinsonii - which was recorded as common on alpine meadows in Kashmir. I note that Dickore & Klimes record S.glacialis from Ladakh. Thanks, ... Pl. check it is there: Flora of China Saussurea bracteata Decne. ?? Looks different from images at Saussurea bracteata Re: Saussurea bracteata http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000891799 Saussurea bracteata specimen in Kew Herbarium This specimen looks like S schultzii according to the book of Klimes and Dickore. Some links they have merged but POWO, Klimes and Dickore book and listing , IPNI and BHL treats them separately. 1 attachment of FBI book. The specimen link of Saussurea bracteata you have sent (http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000891799) has been identified as S schultzii, if you see the details in it. After going through the specimens in GBIF from India, I think it is Saussurea bracteata (Pl. ignore the specimens of S schultzii shown here in GBIF): Saussurea nana (Pamp.) Pamp. is treated as a syn. of Saussurea bracteata DC. by POWO (They have wrongly shown specimen of S schultzii here). Also matches the description as given in the book link sent by Tabish ji and Saroj ji (I think from FBI). Specimens of S schultzii from India look different as per GBIF: Thank you ... Finally ID is resolved! Now we have to separate two sp. Is the species posted by … is Saussurea bracteata/ S. shultzii ? Saussurea bracteata To me the images posted by … are closer to S. glacialis or allied species in which plants are woolly in appearance. S. bracteata as I understand and as mentioned in indian floristic literature and also in the book by Stainton (Supplement to Flowers of the Himalaya, plate-55), is a plant with distinct erect stem and long lanceolate leaves. It resembles S. obvallata in habit. S. bracteata and S. schultzii may be two separate species but Indian literature has merged them into S. bracteata. These may be different species but must be closer in morphology based on which indian literature merges them together. Both of these species (S.bracteata or S. schultzii) do not resemble the images posted by ... Thanks, … Yes, you may be right (though I am not sure) as per GBIF specimens (nothing in it from India): https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2563638673 (this looks the closest) We already have many observations of this species at Saussurea glacialis |
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