{"id":1413935,"date":"2012-05-26T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:14:29","slug":"gentiana-venusta","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/gentiana-venusta\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentiana venusta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gentiana<\/i> venusta<\/i> (G.Don) Wall. ex Griseb.<\/span><\/font><\/a>, Gen. Sp. Gent. 276 1838<\/em>. (Syn: Ericala<\/i> venusta<\/i> G.Don<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Gentiana<\/i> venusta<\/i> Wall.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Gentianodes<\/i> venusta<\/i> (G.Don) \u00c1.L\u00f6ve & D.L\u00f6ve<\/span><\/font><\/a> [Invalid]);<\/div>\n
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Small herb stoloniferous herb barely 6 cm tall, stem barely more than 5 cm, sometimes absent; basal leaves up to 8 mm long, broadly obovate, sheathing at base; cauline obovate-spathulate with hyaline margin; flowers 1-3 together, 2-3 cm long, funnel-shaped, sessile; calyx 8-16 mm long, tube as long as lanceolate unequal lobes; corolla blue, tube long, lobes barely up to 5 mm long; plicae small; capsule exserted, up to 16 mm long, stalked.<\/font><\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Campanulaceae & Gentianaceae Fortnight: Gentianaceae-Gentiana venusta from Kashmir-GSJUL17<\/a> : <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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1 post by 1 author.<\/span>\u00a0Gentiana\u00a0venusta<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(G.Don) Wall. ex Griseb.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Small herb stoloniferous herb barely 6 cm tall, stem barely more than 5 cm, sometimes absent; basal leaves up to 8 mm long, broadly obovate, sheathing at base; cauline obovate-spathulate with hyaline margin; flowers 1-3 together, 2-3 cm long, funnel-shaped, sessile; calyx 8-16 mm long, tube as long as lanceolate unequal lobes; corolla blue, tube long, lobes barely up to 5 mm long; plicae small; capsule exserted, up to 16 mm long, stalked.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Photographed from Apharwat , Kashmir, alt. 3500m<\/font><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Gentiana venusta (Gentianaceae) from Uttarakhand: Sep. 2014_DSR_26<\/a> : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gentiana venusta<\/em> (Gentianaceae) photographed in Bhagwabasa area (Chamoli) Uttarakhand. <\/font>4500m altitude.<\/font><\/p>\n
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This looks correctly identified to me.\u00a0Found from 3300-4800m in Kashmir.\u00a0 <\/font>Flowers of Himalaya says open slopes & peaty ground<\/font> Pakistan to Central Nepal @ 3000-5800m.<\/font>\u00a0Coventry called it the ‘Charming Gentian’ in ‘Wild Flowers of Kashmir’ as the species name is derived from the Latin “venustus” meaning charming or beautiful.<\/font> This gentian is mentioned in ‘The Valley of Flowers’<\/font> book.\u00a0 Last time I saw it was on the exceptional\u00a0Sinthan Pass in Himachal Pradesh.<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It is interesting to note that G.venusta<\/em> was growing between the rosettes of an Androsace<\/em> which I believe is A. globifera<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Gentiana venusta :: Hemkund, Uttarakhand :: Aug 2018 :: ARKSEP-17<\/a><\/span> : 2 posts by 2 authors. <\/span>Attachments<\/span> <\/span>(5)<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n

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These were clicked at Hemkund, Uttarakhand in Aug 2018<\/font>. They were identified by … in a Facebook post.<\/div>\n
I saw many in the bud stage but did not see any opened flowers in the area.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Flora of Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0(= Gentianodes<\/b>
\nvenusta<\/b><\/font><\/a>)\u00a0Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal<\/a>\u00a0 JSTOR | Global Plants: Type of Gentiana venusta (Wall.ex<\/a> <\/font>\u00a0Tropicos<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gentiana venusta (G.Don) Wall. ex Griseb., Gen. Sp. Gent. 276 1838. (Syn: Ericala venusta G.Don; Gentiana venusta Wall.; Gentianodes venusta (G.Don) \u00c1.L\u00f6ve & D.L\u00f6ve [Invalid]); \u00a0 Small herb stoloniferous herb barely 6 cm tall, stem barely more than 5 cm, sometimes absent; basal leaves up to 8 mm long, broadly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6693],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1413935","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-gentiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1413935","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=1413935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1413935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1413935"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1413935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}