{"id":2888,"date":"2020-08-22T10:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2021-07-18T22:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T05:07:30","slug":"ghondghoro-4800-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/2020\/08\/22\/ghondghoro-4800-g\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Delphinium cashmerianum <\/em> Royle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"E87DEF48-8DEB-4A07-9062-4ED6D79E54A7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/187450262@N05\/49778194193\/in\/album-72157713906695503\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49778194193_90d0751ea3_c.jpg\" alt=\"E87DEF48-8DEB-4A07-9062-4ED6D79E54A7\" width=\"824\" height=\"553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Common name<\/strong>: Larkspur<\/p>\n<p>similar to <em>Delphinium brunonianum<\/em> Royle, but with long stalked flowers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family<\/strong>: Ranunculaceae<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ethnobotany<\/span>: Plants of this genus are all poisonous; medicinal purposes: cardiac and respiratory depressant; used in local medicine for destroying maggots in wounds of livestock (especially sheep); flowers are astringent; seeds are &#8220;cathartic, emetic and insecticidal&#8221; (Khare 2007)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photos<\/strong>: Top: Ghondoghoro Glacier, ca. 4800 m. K. Hewitt, 2013. Species also occurred at high altitudes in Thalle Valley (Hewitt 2016 unpubl data).<\/p>\n<p>Bottom (left specimens): Collected in Thalle valley near the top of the slope, ca. 4100 m July 15, N. Hewitt.\u00a0 Species ID # 75, photo # DSC_0293 (classified as <em>Delphinium brunonianum<\/em> Royle, but may be D. cashmerianum)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources and additional resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Khare C. (2007) <em>Delphinium brunonianum<\/em> <span class=\"EmphasisFontCategoryNonProportional \">Royle.<\/span> In: Khare C. (eds) Indian Medicinal Plants. Springer, New York, NY. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-0-387-70638-2_474<\/p>\n<p>Polunin, O. and A. Stainton (1999). Flowers of the Himalaya. Oxford University Press, Delhi. Entry 20 (p. 6; plate 2).<\/p>\n<p>WFO (2021): <em>Delphinium cashmerianum<\/em> Royle. Online at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfloraonline.org\/taxon\/wfo-0000639866\">http:\/\/www.worldfloraonline.org\/taxon\/wfo-0000639866<\/a>. Accessed: 15 Jul 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Common name: Larkspur similar to Delphinium brunonianum Royle, but with long stalked flowers. Family: Ranunculaceae Information: Ethnobotany: Plants of this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68809,"featured_media":2753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-k-taxa","category-ranunculaceae-kk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}