Thank you Prashant Ji, Vijayasanker Ji, Nidhan Ji and Satish Ji for liking this rare legume beauty. With the pics of Vijayasanker Ji I became sure of the ID. Hope together we will explore all the flora of India. DSRawat Pantnagar
On Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:11:34 PM UTC+5:30, D.S Rawat 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.
