Excellent Catch Rawat ji. Efforts by you will definitely help to save this sp
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology & Horticulture Incharge Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- 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.
