Superb efforts and congradulations, Dipankar ji. May I request you to pl. post some representative images here so that these can be incorporated in efloraofindia.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 14:00, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members, > > *Posted on Facebook, by one of our members as below*: > > The 2nd species that got published today is Rhynchotechum nirijuliense > from Nirijuli Hills of Arunachal Pradesh. > > Story: It was the year 2016. I and Miss Momang > <https://www.facebook.com/mangmotaram.mangmotaram1?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARA0IDOQCp9BZK8Gj3gF6fIkKcwigJVG77VdGK9oBwYuEvGkXd-VgMhJITblFd6KM7fQqiNHNmaJnpKh&fref=mentions> > were student of Master’s and were very curious about each plant we see, > though rarely knew the name of any. We regularly took trips to the nearest > jungle of Nirijuli. Among the many plants, a shrub with pink flowers borne > in the axils of leaves repeatedly took our notice for a year, but we never > hardly tried to identif...y. God knows, what we were exactly in search of! > Later the next year we came to know, that the plants were a species of > Rhynchotechum and collected all the different ones present there, and > extended our search to find the other ones distributed in our region. On a > detailed study we could so far collect R. ellipticum, R. vestitum, R. > alternifolium R. parviflorum and the interesting one from Nirjuli which > doesn’t fits to any known species so far. On communication with Benjamin > Anderson and David Middleton who revised the genus, it was confirmed to be > new. And got lucky to describe it with the gigantic help from Benjamin who > repeatedly revised my manuscript before publication for almost 15 times. > Rhynchotechum is a very complex genus and needs careful eyes for species > delimitation, as all the species look superficially similar. But the fruits > preserves some good identification details. > R. nirijuliense is named after the Nirijuli Hills, the pockets of which > still preserves some beautiful plants, but the new settlements have > threatened the survival of many. You can see this species there and > adjoining areas of Papum Pare district. We hope you enjoyed the reading. > > Link to the full article: > https://www.researchgate.net/…/342353115_Rhynchotechum_niri… > <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342353115_Rhynchotechum_nirijuliense_Gesneriaceae_a_new_species_from_Northeast_India?fbclid=IwAR12yukwIo_bTcu72Ve9Nxwd82D2LaGnC33dlomtLnFb9BGI48unKgqfB9M> > With love > Dipoo Dipankar Borah > <https://www.facebook.com/dipu.borah2?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARA6Wn2D1uoEC8woWoOxMAMxTpjHsgTzXChfplfky2gVuZxK55BJDpNmvkgrwza0Zm4kfei5vMHnWS4h&fref=mentions> > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than 2,50,000 images are directly displayed on 31.1.20). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFBsx9FYiTq4sEYSC%2B7%3DmJXv8Rh1qU3wN_hmM7%2BWhoomEg%40mail.gmail.com.
