Great effort Rawat ji on your part to save this Critically Endangered sp. Thanks for sharing this unique find.. Regards Prashant
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Very well illustrated upload. Thanks Rawat ji. > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:28 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]>wrote: > >> My flora picture of the year 2013 is: >> >> *Meizotropis pellita* (Hook.f. ex Prain) Sanjappa Bull. Bot. Surv. India >> 29: 219 1989. >> >> [=*Butea pellita* Hook.f. ex Prain, Bull. Misc. Inf. Kew 1908: 385. >> 1908.] >> >> >> This genus has only two species (*M.buteiformis* Voigt being other) in >> the world, both occurring in Himalayan zone (Uttarakhand to Burma) only. >> >> >> It is a perennial wild legume species which is rarely known and >> photographed. I myself heard about this species at the time of my D.Phil. >> research and wished to see, collect and photograph it. The wish fulfilled, >> but only after one and a half decade! Despite of the long duration of >> fifteen years my photographs uploaded on eFI are still seems the first >> photographs of this species on web. >> >> The rarity of *M.pellita* can be understood by the fact that it is an >> endemic of Uttarakhand and Nepal only. In Uttarakhand it has only one >> population known which hardly has more than few hundred(<1000) individuals. >> No clear information from Nepal is available. Though not mentioned in >> Indian Red Data Book or IUCN Redlist it certainly deserves a *Critically >> Endangered* category on account of few hundred surviving individuals, >> small unprotected area of occurrence (less than 5km2), meager seed >> setting and lopping for various purposes in the area. >> >> >> A project on micro propagation of this species was sanctioned to a >> scientist from a nearby institution and a recent paper claims development >> of micro propagation protocols. I may also boast that I have raised two >> seedlings of this species at my home (in Pantnagar) to which I will later >> transfer to some botanic garden. >> >> >> Not just hoping but trying to save this species! >> >> 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.
