Congrats Rawat ji for this rare find. Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Anil Thakur <[email protected]> wrote: > > Congratulations, Sir > On Monday, 6 June 2016 10:19:51 UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: >> >> No better way to celebrate World Environment day. >> Thanks, Rawat ji for telling us in a nice way. >> >> On 5 June 2016 at 21:58, 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> 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 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.
