Great finding Rawatji, Thanks for sharing this good photo On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Prashant Awale <pkaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <drdsrawat.alpin...@gmail.com> > 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. >> 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *Prabhu Kumar K M* Scientist Plant Systematics & Genetic Resources Division & 'CMPR' Herbarium Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR) Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Malappuram - 676 503, Kerala, India *E-mail: prabhumkris...@gmail.com <prabhumkris...@gmail.com>* -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
