Thank you Dr Panda for these nice words. DSRawat Pantnagar On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 7:28:57 PM UTC+5:30, Subhasis Panda wrote: > > Nice collections and photographs Rawatji! > Dr. S. Panda > Darjeeling > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:34 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> *Monotropa uniflora* L (Ericaceae), sometimes also placed in its own >> family Monotropaceae, is a strange angiosperm as it completely devoid of >> green colour (Chlorophyll is absent). It grows in dense temperate forests >> where thick layer of litter exists on forest floor in Uttarakhand. It is a >> rare species having bell shaped nodding solitary flower. >> >> A saprophytic angiosperm, *Monotropa uniflora* is also known as Indian >> Pipe Plant though it is found in many parts of the world including >> Americas. Entire plant is up to 15 cm tall and flower bearing stalks often >> occur in cluster. >> >> >> >> Photographed in Chopta forest near Tungnath (Chamoli) Uttarakhand by Mr >> Satish Chandra. >> >> >> >> It is a new genus and species in eFI database. >> >> >> DSRawat Pantnagar >> >> Dr D.S.Rawat >> Department 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. >> > >
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