Hedyotis beddomei Hook. f.

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Last record: June 1872

Since rediscovered

Distribution

Western Ghats, India

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [689].

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. 325-326]

Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta et al. (2018). On the identity and rediscovery of Hedyotis beddomei Hook. f. (Rubiaceae): a lesser known endemic species of Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 375(3): 229-234. [Abstract]

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]

Srivastava, R. C., Lakshminarasimhan, P., Arisdason, W. and Sardesai, M. M. (2015). Angiosperms of India known only by type collection. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(8): 7465-7470. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o3723.7465-70

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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Gentiana tetrasepala Biswas

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Last record: 1884

Rediscovered in 2007

Distribution

Himalayas

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Rana, C. S., Rana, V. and Bisht, M. P. S. (2011). New distributional record of Gentiana tetrasepala Biswas (Gentianales: Gentianaceae) from the Valley of Flowers National Park, Garhwal Himalaya. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(9): 2100-2103.

Rawat, D. S. (2009). A presumed extinct endemic alpine herb Gentiana tetrasepala rediscovered after 123 years: will it survive? Natl. Acad. Sci. Lett. 32: 169-172. [Abstract]

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Gentiana saginoides Burkill, 1906

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Gentiana sagjinoides Burkill [orth. error used by Rao et al., 2003:45]

Conservation Status

Rediscovered in June 2012

Distribution

Sunderdhunga Valley, Uttarakhand, India

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

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]

Sastry, A.R.K. & Hajra, P.K. (1983). Rare and endemic species of Rhododendron in India – A preliminary study. pp. 222-231 In An assessment of threatened plants of India. Naba Mudran Private Limited, Calcutta, India: Botanical Survey of India.

Rawat, D. S., Chandra, Satish and Chaturvedi, Preeti. (2022). Threatened flora of Uttarakhand: an update. Journal of Threatened Taxa 14(12): 2230922328. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.6330.14.12.22309-22328

Rawat, D. S., Rana, C. S., Singh, H. and Karnatak, M. (2016). Gentiana saginoides Burkill (Magnoliopsida: Gentianales: Gentianaceae) rediscovered from Sunderdhunga Valley in Uttarakhand 155 years after description: notes on its population status. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(7): 9048-9052.

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Gentiana infelix C.B.Clarke

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Rediscovered

Distribution

Himalayas

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Rawat, D. S. and Gaur, R. D. (1996). On the occurrence of Gentiana infelix Clarke (Gentianaceae) in Garhwal Himalaya. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 93(1): 118-119.

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