Very interesting find. Thanks Rawat ji for sharing this wonderful find with us.. Regards Prashant
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:20 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > This tiny *Saxifraga* *micrphylla* Royle ex Hook.f. et Thomson > (Saxifragaceae) is known to be distributed from Kashmir to Nepal. The > species is found growing above 4200m altitude with mosses in Uttarakhand > and I have seen it in very few places during last two decades. The plants > are hardly 2-3cm tall and makes loose cushions. > > > This time I managed to photograph it in flowering stage. > > > Interestingly, the web search fails to find any authentic photograph of > this species which suggests that the attached pic is first. > > > This species is interesting as it is one of the *Saxifraga* which lacks > normal petals (white/ yellow/red, thin and membranous) and have all > perianth sepaloid. > > ‘Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra 2015’ provided me this opportunity in the > vicinity of Roopkund. > > 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. > -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
