Great Rawat ji. It indeed is a great news!! Congrats for rediscovery of a plant assumingly extinct in the wild. Regards,
Dr. G. S. Goraya, IFS Deputy Director General (Research), Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, New Forest P.O., DEHRADUN - 248 006. Uttarakhand, India. Tel & Fax (O): 0135-2757775 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 14:22:06 +0530 Subject: [efloraofindia:189882] A Good News on World Environment Day...Extinct Species Rediscovered From: [email protected] To: [email protected] We have good news on this day when a lot of environmental problems are discussed including extinction of species. Last year's toil have fruited now. After a natural disaster (I call it natural because we are also apart of nature's creation) in June 2013 in Utttarakhand Himalaya, we (I with my student Satish) dared to venture into the anterior Kali Valley on a trail leading to Kailash & Mansarovar, in July 2014. Hills were severely bleeding with scars of active landslides and after Pithoragarh we changed vehicles several times to reach Jauljibi for night stay. Next day, once again, after changing vehicles few times reached Dobat beyond which no vehicles were available. Consequently, we trekked for about 25 kms to reach Pangla, a village motorable in normal summer seasons. This trekking was adventurous (see pics) and even the local people were not moving from their villages. After Pangla there were numerous landslides and road was covered with sliding mantle of earth; it is yet not repaired today. We trekked for nearly 15 km negotiating ups and downs in the remote Himalayan terrain and reached Malpa, a place remembered for a natural disaster in August 1998 in which entire Malpa (Malipa) village and pilgrims to Kailash- Mansarovar were killed. Now this place has a deserted look and Mahakali (as Kali river known in the area) roars in a deep gorge hundred meters below old Malipa village site. Despite of all troubles in 40-45 km track we were rewarded by the collection of a presumed Extinct species Dipcadi reidii (Asparagaceae). Way back, in 1886, J.F. Duthie and J.R. Reid collected plants here and on the basis of these specimens a new species D. reidii was published by Deb and S. Dasgupta in 1978. The species was never collected or seen by any other after 1886 and this led to the assumption that it has become extinct (in Red Data Book of Indian Plants and 1997 IUCN Redlist of threatened Plants). The locality of D. reidii was, in fact, not clear in scientific literature and general plant collection in the area didn't collect it. It was fortunate for us that our intentional botanical exploration in this remote locality succeeded in rediscovery of it. Our scientific publication will appear in June issue of Rheedea and I received the proof of it today. Attached pics narrate the story. Dr D.S.RawatDepartment of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA -- 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
