{"id":1410659,"date":"2012-05-10T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:14:36","slug":"epilobium-tibetanum","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/epilobium-tibetanum\/","title":{"rendered":"Epilobium tibetanum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Epilobium<\/em> tibetanum<\/i> Hausskn., Oesterr. Bot. Z. 29: 53 1879<\/em>. (Syn: Epilobium<\/i> leiospermum<\/i> Hausskn.<\/font><\/a>; Epilobium<\/i> nuristanicum<\/i> Rech.f.<\/font><\/a>; Epilobium<\/i> pseudo-obscurum<\/i> Hausskn.<\/font><\/a>; Epilobium<\/i> pseudobscurum<\/i> Hausskn.<\/font><\/a>; Epilobium<\/i> roseum<\/i> var. anagallidifolium<\/i> C.B. Clarke<\/font><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Afghanistan (Badakshan, Wakhan, Kabul, Kunar \/ Nuristan, Parwan), Pakistani
\nKashmir (Baltistan, Astor, Gilgit), Pakistan (Hazara, Kurram, Chitral, Swat),
\nTibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Chumbi, Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir, Ladakh, Leh),
\nNepal,<\/font> China (Sichuan, Yunnan), India<\/font><\/font> as per Catalogue of Life<\/font><\/a>;\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n

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Common name:<\/strong> Tibetan Willow-Herb <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
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Erect herb<\/font> with leafy or fleshy basal soboles; stems 13-100cm, much-branched, sparsely appressed stiffly all around, glabrescent below, with subglabrous raised lines. Leaves lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 2-7 x 0.5-1.7cm, acute, base attenuate, subglabrous except on veins, serrulate; petiole2-5mm. Inflorescenceerect; pedicels 0.4-1.2cm; flowers erect. Floral tube subglabrous within. Sepals 3.5-5 x 1.3-1.7mm. Petals pink to rose-purple, rarely white, 5-8 x 3-3.5mm, apical notch 0.7-1.2mm. Ovaries densely appressed stiffly hairy and eglandular, 1.4-2.3cm; style 2.5-4mm; stigma subcapitate to short clavate. Capsules 4-8.5cm,on pedicels 1-3.2cm. Seeds ovoid, 0.9-1.3 x 0.4-0.55mm, reticulate; tuft of hairs dull white, easily detached<\/font><\/div>\n

Fl. June-September<\/font> <\/div>\n
Moist places by ditches, streams and rivers in mountains<\/font><\/div>\n
(Attributions- A.C.J Grierson & D.G Long. Flora of Bhutan. Published by RBGE. 1991 from Bhutan Biodiversity Portal<\/font><\/a>)<\/div>\n
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ID request- 07072012-PKA3:<\/font><\/a> Requesting ID for this herb from ladakh.
Date\/Time: 18-09-2011 \/ 01:45PM
Location: En-route Turtuk Village, Nubra Valley, Ladakh<\/font>
Altitude: Approx: 10000 ft.
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Plant habit: Herb.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Epilobium<\/em> sp.<\/p>\n

Flower close up should help further.<\/p>\n
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See my previous lengthy comments<\/font><\/a> about Epilobium<\/em> sp. in\u00a0Nubra<\/p>\n
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I think more closer to images and details at Epilobium tibetanum<\/em><\/font> Hausskn.<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Epilobium tibetanum from Khillenmarg-Kongdor, Kashmir:<\/font><\/a> Epilobium tibetanum<\/strong> Hausskn., Oesterr. Bot. Z. 29: 53. 1879<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
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syn: <\/font>Epilobium<\/i> <\/span><\/font>pseudobscurum<\/i> <\/span><\/font>Hausskn.<\/span>; Epilobium<\/i> <\/font>roseum<\/i> <\/font>var.<\/span> <\/font>anagallidifolium<\/i> <\/font>C.B. Clarke<\/span><\/div>\n
A distinctive clump-forming perennial with ascending branches, oblong-lanceolate leaves, up to 3.5 cm long, lower obtuse, upper acute, petiole 2-3 mm long; inflorescence few-flowered with pale-pink to white flowers; stigma clavate; capule 5-6 cm long, sparsely pilose.
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Photographed among rocks<\/font> in Khillenmarg-Kongdor area, Kashmir in July<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0
\n<\/span>FOC illustration<\/a> \u00a0<\/span>Flora of Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> Bhutan Biodiversity Portal<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Epilobium tibetanum Hausskn., Oesterr. Bot. Z. 29: 53 1879. (Syn: Epilobium leiospermum Hausskn.; Epilobium nuristanicum Rech.f.; Epilobium pseudo-obscurum Hausskn.; Epilobium pseudobscurum Hausskn.; Epilobium roseum var. anagallidifolium C.B. Clarke); Afghanistan (Badakshan, Wakhan, Kabul, Kunar \/ Nuristan, Parwan), Pakistani Kashmir (Baltistan, Astor, Gilgit), Pakistan (Hazara, Kurram, Chitral, Swat), Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Chumbi,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6658],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1410659","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-epilobium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1410659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1410659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1410659"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1410659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}