Dipcadi concanense concanense (Dalzell) Baker (1870:399)
Dhokache phul, Deepkadi, Ekdandi
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Uropetalon concanense Dalzell in Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 143 (1850); Ornithogalum concanense (Dalzell) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt in Edinburgh J. Bot. 60: 551 (2003 publ. 2004)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1861 (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:175)
Since Rediscovered (Humphreys et al., 2019) in the 1980's
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Distribution & Habitat
Konkan region, Maharashtra, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dalzell, N. A. (1850). Contribution to the botany of Western India. Hooker’s Journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany 2: 133-145.
Other references:
Dasgupta, S. and Deb, D. B. (1987). Dipcadi concanense (Dalz.) Baker, p. 175. In: Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (eds.). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Vol. 1. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
Deb, D. B. and Dasgupta, S. (1981). Fascicles of Flora of India. Fascicle 7. Liliaceae: Tribe – Scilleae. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
Deshpande, Anup S., Krishnan, S. and Janarthanam, M. K. (2015). Lectotypification of Uropetalon concanense (Asparagaceae): An endemic species from Western Ghats, India. Rheedea 25(2): 123-124.
Deshpande, A.S., A. Mirgal, S. Krishnan, S. Narkhede and M.K. Janarthanam (2016). Extended distribution of Dipcadi concanense (Dalzell) Baker - a highly threatened plant taxon of the family Asparagaceae. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(13): 9586-9588.
Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter D: 1-30141.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
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Mirgal, A. (2022). Dipcadi concanense. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T177963589A177969107. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T177963589A177969107.en. Accessed on 23 July 2025.
Mistry, M. K. and Almeida, S. M. (1988). Some rare, endangered and threatened plant species from Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 86: 478-479.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1987, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 1. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. xiii + 367 pp, 16 pls, figs. [pp. 175]
Patil, S. (2015). A Note on the Occurrence and Distribution of Dipcadi concanense. Nelumbo 57: 60-63.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 23 July 2025]
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
Rawat, D. S. and Chandra, S. (2014). Presumed extinct Dipcadi reidii (Asparagaceae) rediscovered after 127 years from Uttarakhand, India Rheedea 24: 1-4.
Rodrigues, H. S., Dutta, S. R. and Chakral, K. G. (2024). Resolving the taxonomic identities of some Dipcadi species from India. Phytotaxa 645(1): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.645.1.1
Sivaraj, N., Venkateswaran, Kamala, Pandravada, S. R., Reddy, M. Thirupathi Reddy and Rajasekharan, P. E. (2020). Threatened Medicinal Plants of Eastern Ghats and Their Conservation, pp. 31-62. In: Rajasekharan, P. E. and Wani, Shabir Hussain (eds.). Conservation and Utilization of Threatened Medicinal Plants. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. xviii + 565 pp. [still lists the species as possibly extinct]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
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