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Madhuca diplostemon (C.B.Clarke) P.Royen

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered after 184 years

 

Distribution

Western Ghats, India

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Clarke, C. B. (1882). Sapotaceae. In: HOOKER J.D. (ed.) Flora of British India. Volume 3. L. Reeve and Co., London. pp. 534-549.

 

Other references:

Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (eds.). (1990, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 3. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. 271 pp. Illus., col. illus. [p. 245-246]

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]

ROYEN VAN P. 1960. Revision of the Sapotaceae of the Malaysian area in a wider sense XX, Madhuca Gmel. Blumea 10: 1-117.

Shailajakumari, S. et al. (2020). Rediscovery of Madhuca diplostemon (Sapotaceae)  - a threatened species of the Western Ghats, India, after a hiatus of 184 years. Rheedea 30(2): 270-277.

Sivaraj, N., Venkateswaran, Kamala, Pandravada, S. R., Reddy, M. Thirupathi Reddy and Rajasekharan, P. E. (2020). Threatened Medicinal Plants of Eastern Ghats and Their ConservationThreatened 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.

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. [lists the species as endangered]

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/extinct-tree-found-after-180-years-in-kollam-grove/article32760018.ece

 

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