Thanks Rawat ji for this post. Beautiful pictures! and interesting habitat!
I am happy to see the plant once again. [Here is my previous post<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/bpb2mQxFZgY/ydYtRd637gsJ>of this species. Thanks for adding the accepted name]. Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > Great effort Rawat ji. Nice set of photographs. > Regards > Prashant > > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:11 PM, D.S Rawat > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Meizotropis buteiformis* Voigt [=*Butea minor* Buch.- Ham. ex Baker] of >> Fabaceae family is a less photographed plant. >> >> This genus (*Meizotropis*) has only two species *M.buteiformis* and * >> M.pellita* (posted earlier by me) in the world. Both species occur in >> Uttarakhand in Kumaon division. >> >> *M.buteiformis* is a large leaved shrub with paniculate inflorescence of >> bright red flowers. I captured it near Mangti village in Kali Valley, >> Pithoragarh District. It lies in the route of Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra. >> >> Picture 4 shows the location of plant (red circle) but more interesting >> is the road construction at this place. The entire road is made by cutting >> the hard rock which in picture looks like an open jaw. Though there was >> road but after the natural disaster of 15/16 June 2013 it was blocked near >> Dharchula and to reach to this place we trekked around 30km. >> 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. >> 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.
