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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Chuck on December 18, 2012, 10:49:05 AM
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Please help me ID these plants they are from West china near Tibet between Yunnan and Sichuan both are from the same habitat around 3500-4000 meters in flat grassland valley in a mountain range. Other plants in the habitat include Rhododendron rupicola.
Gentiana ?
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5282/5227752483_fe0ebe3e67.jpg)
Pedicularis ?
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5003/5228346988_1a0c747699.jpg)
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Top one i think gentiana and the bottom pedicularis
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But which?
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Chuck, Photos are not clear in particularly the leaves which are important for the identification.
Trying to figure, i think it might be Pedicularis siphonantha and Gentiana haynaldii.
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yes I think that is Pedicularis siphonantha var. delavayi the description seems to fit on eflora china
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200021145 (http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200021145)
The Gentiana I am not sure Gentiana forrestii is also close by the habitat but I did not see any other plants with blue flowers around. Compared it with Gentiana haynaldii and it did have the spots at the center of the flower. But I am not an expert so I cannot really tell
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Infact Chuck this is why i said there is a need for a better photo,
still i think by the size of the sepals compare with the petals make me think more of G. haynaldii :-\
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Largest photo I got is here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guolan/5227752483/#sizes/l/in/photostream/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/guolan/5227752483/#sizes/l/in/photostream/)