Lovely sharing Rawat Ji..thanks for showing such a rare and difficult find...
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:39 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]>wrote: > This exclusively Himalayan genus (in India), *Aquilegia* (popularly known > as Columbine) is characterized by five backward projecting spurs. Five > species of it occur in India. > > *Aquilegia nivalis* (Baker) Falc. ex B.D.Jacks. (Ranunculaceae) is a > rare Himalayan Columbine species and listed in *1997 IUCN Red List of > Threatened Plants*. It is a small perennial herb with solitary terminal > nodding flower in alpine areas of J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. > Though the Flora of India vol-I indicate its distribution only in J&K and > Himachal Pradesh, last year we recorded it first time in Valley of Flowers. > > Photographed here in Sunderdhunga Valley, Bageshwar district Uttarakhand > at an altitude of 3900m. > > DSRawat Pantnagar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
