Botanical name: Gentiana cachemirica    Family: Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Synonyms: Gentiana loderi, Gentianodes cachemirica,

Kashmir Gentian is a clustered perennial herb growing on rock ledges, with many leafy stems each with few or solitary pale blue funnel-shaped flowers at branch-ends, with spreading petals and with distinctive short triangular toothed false-petals. Flowers are 3.5-4.3 cm, tube long slender 2.5 cm or more, dark purple outside, and with roundish-ovate to elliptic pointed petals. Sepal-cup is tubular about 1.3 cm, with elliptic pointed sepals. Stem leaves are glaucous, ovate 0.8-1.8 cm; stems spreading 10-15 cm. Kashmir Gentian is found in Western Himalayas, from Pakistan to Kashrnir, at altitudes of 240-4000 m. Flowering: August-October.

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