Nice to read about the rediscovery. Thanks for sharing Madhuri On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:58 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> 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.
