• Family : Gentianaceae
  (Gentian Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BHUIN NEEM FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Gentianaceae
• Basionym : Ciminalis leucomelaena (Maxim.) Zuev
• Synonym(s) : Ciminalis leucomelaena (Maxim.) Zuev; Ciminalis variegata Zuev; Gentiana berezovcaeana Prodan; Gentiana variegata (Zuev) Czerep.; Varasia leucomelaena (Maxim.) Soják
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Gentiana leucomelaena Maxim.
• Common name : Blue-Dotted Gentian
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Cold Desert, Along streams, bog meadows, meadows, alpine meadows, scrub; 1900-5000 m.
• Key identification features : Flowers are few, pale blue, rarely white, with blue-gray stripes, with dark blue spots in throat, bell-shaped.
• Flower, Fruit : May-October
• Distribution :
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
  • Ladakh : Leh district
• Native : Altay, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, East Himalaya, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Xinjiang
• Exotic/Native : Native
• Literature : Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 176; Shabir M. et. al., (2017). On the current status of the genus Gentiana L. (Gentianaceae) in India. Pleione. 11(1): 16-24; Photographs of K.Sankara Rao
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Gentiana leucomelaena. Downloaded on 4 July 2022.

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