Meizotropis buteiformis

Meizotropis buteiformis Voigt (Syn:  Butea buteiformis (Voigt) Grierson & D.G.Long; Butea minor Baker; Butea xizangensis X.Y. Zhu & Y.F. Du; Megalotropis buteiformis (Voigt) Griff.; Plaso minor (Baker) Kuntze);

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Meizotropis buteiformis (Fabaceae) from Uttarakhand :  Attachments (4). 9 posts by 7 authors.

Meizotropis buteiformis Voigt [=Butea minor Buch.- Ham. ex Baker] of Fabaceae family is a less photographed plant.

M.buteiformis is a large leaved shrub with paniculate inflorescence of bright red flowers.  I captured it near Mangti village in Kali Valley, Pithoragarh District. It lies in the route of Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra.

Picture
4 shows the location of plant (red circle) but more interesting is the
road construction at this place. The entire road is made by cutting the
hard rock which in picture looks like an open jaw. Though there was road
but after the natural disaster of 15/16 June 2013 it was blocked near
Dharchula and to reach to this place we trekked around 30km.

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Interesting post of an uncommon plant with habitat details..

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Thanks for sharing. Amazing efforts and equally good pictures.I appreciate your trekking capacities for capturing so many plants.

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Thank you … for liking this rare legume beauty. With the pics of … I became sure of the ID. Hope together we will explore all the flora of India.

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Thanks … for the inspiring line: Hope together we will explore all the flora of India. I like the thought very very much.

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Yes Yes. Very inspiring lines.

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Meizotropis buteiformis Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 239. 1845.

Synonyms:Butea buteiformis (Voigt) Grierson & D.G.Long
Butea minor Baker, Butea xizangensis X.Y. Zhu & Y.F. Du, Megalotropis buteiformis (Voigt) Griff., Plaso minor (Baker) Kuntze
FAMILY: FABACEAE
Distribution: Ban­gladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal.
Current pic taken from Munshiyari in Uttarakhand at almost the place where the road ends. I assume my id is correct.

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Goriganga Valley:
I am posting some images of my trip to Goriganga valley taken 3 years back. In the entire tour Pachchuli snow peaks are towering above.

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Butea minima stands corected as Meizotropis buteiformis Voigt syn Butea minor Baker. and Him Kingfisher as Crested Kingfisher

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Wow!! unbelievable clarity of pictures. The lizard I felt as though was sitting on my desk. Lovely crimson sunbird, the kingfisher and lovely green colored paris peacock liked them all. Thanks for sharing..

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Here are my albums froom Gori Valley on Facebook
First album is my third trip with …, one of my best friends.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.408895195824.179630.680375824&type=1&l=e61afa84d1
Second album was with … from Texas Tech University another best friend.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.425045500824.195003.680375824&type=1&l=75c7a517b0

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For the knowledge of members, this small stretch of river and the valley has ~120 species of orchids :). And during my last visit I added two more in three days!!….

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I spent only a day from Munsiari to Sera and back To munsiari.
I want to know if we should approach from Askot or from Munsiari. If we can cover the whole valley in 3 days then we are thinking of doing a round trip from Almora Askot Munsiari Almora. What do you advise
logistically and flora diversity wise? We can estimate time only after hearing from you.

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[efloraofindia:34306] Flora of Manipur: Butea buteiformis : Attachments (4). 7 posts by 7 authors.
Butea buteiformis! (Fabaceae). An interesting plant, first time we saw only here, a diminutive ‘B.monosperma’, but… you can see the differences. Its a small shrub, up to 2 m tall.

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Thanks for sharing. Although it is used in many formulations but its use in prevention of Renal Calculi is surprising.

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Now it is Meizotropis buteiformis Voigt. Seeing it first time though it also occur in Uttarakhand.

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Meizotropis buteiformis Voigt (accepted name) : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)

Meizotropis species- in the adjoining Kanchanpur and Baitadi district of Mahakali anchal of Far Western Nepal : 3 posts by 2 authors. 1 image.

Thank you … for additional important information. Meizotropis have only two species in the world M.pellita, the species mentioned here, and M.buteiformis (synonym B.minor) which is found throughout Himalaya from Kumaon to Burma. I have seen it last year (2013) in Kali valley where it is frequent along road from Dharchula to Mungti, growing over rocky slopes. This third one from Nepal seems really interesting. The colour of flower may not be a significant character but with the picture it certainly differ from M.buteiformis and M.pellita. But then it requires plant specimens to determine identity/novelty.
Now it is clear with your information that M.pellita has one or two more populations in Kumaon and some plants are safely growing in Himalayan Botanical Garden Naini Tal. I will be very happy to visit this botanic garden in spring and later also. I know you have made great efforts to cultivate many orchids there in addition to other species.

To me it appear close to the images of … at [efloraofindia:34306] Flora of Manipur: Butea buteiformis

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Butea buteiformis (Voigt) Grierson: 7 very high res. images.

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