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Dipcadi maharashtrense Deb & S.Dasgupta (1976 "1975":822)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Dipcadi maharashtrensis Deb & S.Dasgupta [used by Nayar & Sastry, 1987:176; Rao et al., 2003:113]; Ornithogalum maharashtrense (Deb & S.Dasgupta) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt in Edinburgh J. Bot. 60: 551 (2004 "2003")

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym of D. ursulae ursulae) (Rodrigues et al., 2024; POWO, 2025)

Last record: 1955 (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:176)

Since Rediscovered (Tetali et al., 2000) prior to synonymisation

 

Distribution & Habitat

Maharashtra, India

 

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References

Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter D: 1-30141.

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. 176]

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]

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

Tetali, P., Lakshminarasimhan, P., Prasanna, P. V. and Tetali, S. (2000). Rediscovery of Dipcadi maharashtrensis Deb et Dasgupta (Liliaceae), an endemic and threatened species from Maharashtra, India. Rheedea 10: 127-130

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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