Thanks, Chadwell ji On 28 Feb 2017 2:25 p.m., "[email protected]" < [email protected]> wrote:
> Naturally read this with interest. Checked with Flora of Bhutan Vol 1 > Part 2 which covers Caryophyllaceae. > > The authors have A.thangoensis W.W.Smith (and A.pharensis McNeil > &Majumbar) only as a synonym of Arenaria > littledalei Hemsley. What are your thoughts about this? This account > for Caryophyllaceae of the region (incl. Sikkim and Chumbi) > was published back in 1984. > > This taxon was recorded from Sikkim (Chugya, Naku Chu and Thango) plus > Chumbi (Phari plain) @ 4360-4570. > > I see that 'The Plant List' accept A.littledalei and A.thangoensis as > separate species. > > There are specimens of A.littledalei (from Central Tibet and Sikkim) in > the Kew herbarium, see: http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/ > getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000723882; and http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/ > getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000723881 > > Please explain how these differ from A.thangoensis? > > On Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 5:29:15 PM UTC+1, 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 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 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.
