Really a fascinating find..thanks Rawat Ji for beautifully sharing the moments. Both of you deserve a great applause for this fruitful but exhausting search, you could have missed the plant by few meters..superb recollection..
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > Very interesting! Congrats Rawat ji for the great find. > I think the soul of Dr. Duthie responded to your call and helped you find > the plant :) > Very touching!! > > > Regards > > Vijayasankar Raman > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Chitra Shanker > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> wow great find and an inspiring story.... >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I can understand the satisfaction, the joy U would have got at that >>> particular moment... Congratulations Rana ji and Rawat ji for this find... >>> >>> The place where U found this should be named as " T- Point", i mean Tea >>> Point... >>> >>> Thanks for sharing this touching story.. >>> Regards >>> Prashant >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Very touching story. Congratulations and hats off to you and your >>>> excursions! >>>> >>>> Dr Satish Phadke >>>> >>>> >>>> On 11 July 2013 20:48, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Congratulations on this great find! >>>>> I can imagine the excitement you would have experienced. >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Aarti >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:59:26 PM UTC+4, D.S Rawat wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> *Arenaria curvifolia* Majumdar (Caryophyllaceae) was collected by >>>>>> J.F.Duthie, an elglishmen, in 1885 from Kuari Pass (a notch in high ridge >>>>>> connecting Nandakini Valley and Dhauli Valley at an altitude of about >>>>>> 3800m) area. Based on these specimens housed at FRI Dehradun N.C.Majumdar >>>>>> described this species in 1980. Despite of numerous botanical >>>>>> explorations >>>>>> in Garhwal Himalaya by various Taxonomis this species eluded all. >>>>>> >>>>>> In 2006 we (I and Dr C.S.Rana) conducted a through search in its type >>>>>> locality. On third day at the final stage of our futile search rain >>>>>> started >>>>>> at this altitude of 3600m and we decided to make a cup of tea along a >>>>>> rivulet. While Dr Rana was preparing tea on stove I walked towards a >>>>>> steep >>>>>> rock just in frustration of failure. Just as a joke to reduce this >>>>>> tension >>>>>> of failure I said to Dr Rana that we have to call soul of J.F.Duthie to >>>>>> guide us to the spot. Afterwards, I reached just below this moss laden >>>>>> dripping rock and my eyes glued to a white flowered herb suspecting it as >>>>>> *A.curvifolia*. Few meters closer and I jumped in euphoria, hey >>>>>> Rana ji! we have found it. Elated by my call he ran towards me while our >>>>>> kerosene stove and boiling tea tumbled down on steep slope. We hugged >>>>>> each >>>>>> other for this unexpected success at this juncture. The first picture >>>>>> show >>>>>> Dr Rana with plant later. >>>>>> >>>>>> Joy of finding a presumed extinct species or a species not recorded >>>>>> for the last one century is exhilarating to a Taxonomist and such moments >>>>>> are few in life. >>>>>> >>>>>> A little more information and image can be seen at following link: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.flowersofindia.**net/catalog/slides/Chamoli%** >>>>>> 20Sandwort.html<http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Chamoli%20Sandwort.html> >>>>>> >>>>>> DSRawat Pantnagar[image: Inline image 3][image: Inline image 4][image: >>>>>> Inline image 5][image: Inline image 2] >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Chitra Shanker >> Sr. Scientist (Entomology) >> Directorate of Rice Research, >> Rajendranagar, Hyderabad -500030 >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. 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