Heartiest Congratulations, dear Dr. Rawat ji On Feb 27, 2017 11:55 AM, "D.S Rawat" <[email protected]> wrote:
Attaching here the publication related to this rediscovery. DSRawat Pantnagar On Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 9:59:15 PM UTC+5:30, D.S Rawat wrote: > > World environment day is appropriate time to inform our eFI family that in > last year’s botanical exploration we managed to rediscover a threatened > endemic species from a remote Himalayan locale after nearly 106 years. > > *Arenaria thangoensis* W.W.Sm. (Caryophyllaceae) is a tiny plant and this > species was described in 1911 from Tangu (Thangu) area of Sikkim in the > Eastern Himalaya. This species was never recollected after type collection > either from type locality or anywhere in the Himalaya or Tibet and, > therefore, known by the type collection only (Srivastava et al. 2015 > <http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/2114/3261>). > During a floristic exploration in the Kuari Pass alpine zone (3600-3700m > above sea level, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand), which happens to be the > type locality of ‘Endangered and endemic’ *Arenaria curvifolia* Majumdar, > my student Satish collected *Arenaria thangoensis.* This collection is a > rediscovery of this threatened species after 106 years and demonstrates > that it is an extant (living) species and thriving well in the area. > Rediscovery from nearly 950 km (aerial distance) away from its originally > known population makes it more interesting. > > Image of the species attached here is a first ever photo of live specimens > of this species in the world. > > Rediscovering a species is a joy for me and sharing it with ardent nature > lovers of eFI fraternity increases it manifolds. > This rediscovery is yet not published, though in communication with a > journal. > > Dr D.S.Rawat > Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & > Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA > *eflorapantnagar* <https://sites.google.com/site/eflorapantnagar/home> > displaying wild flora of Pantnagar > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ topic/indiantreepix/MmWgfIwUFeo/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
