Thanks Rawatji for displaying a rarest plant. NS Joshi
On 1 January 2014 20:28, 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. > -- With Regards, Narendra Joshi -- 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.
