Rawat Ji, Very beautiful picture and the description along with it. Aarti On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 3:24:04 PM UTC+4, D.S Rawat wrote: > > Thanks to J.F. Duthie and other early plant collectors who collected > plants from Ralam- Barjikang Pass area in Uttarakhand. They left this > species *Saxifraga minutissima* D.S. Rawat (Saxifragaceae) for me to > describe. > > In our recent trekking to Barjikang Pass (4650m) I was surprised to see > this species growing with *Saxifraga stella-aurea*, *Gentiana infelix* > etc. I collected it from Kedarnath area and described it as a new species > based on its apetalous flowers and only 5 stamens in 2012. Till the recent > collection I considered it as a point endemic restricted to a small area > near Kedarnath. But it proved wrong and I found it here, nearly 125 km away > (aerial distance) from its type locality. > > I wonder how it escaped of sharp eyes of J.F. Duthie; probably because of > extremely small size (1-1.5cm only). > > Each exploration in highland of Himalaya has surprises. I feel embarrassed > that how less I have explored. > > DSRawat Pantnagar > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 >
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