Rotala ritchiei Koehne (1883:386)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ammannia ritchiei C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 2: 566 (1879)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 1979 (Janardhanan, 1979; Singh et al., 2013:438)
Then rediscovered in 1989 (Mathew & Ahmedullah, 1989; Singh et al., 2013:438)
Distribution
Maharashtra, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Janardhanan, K. P. (1979). Bull. Bot. Surv. India, 21, 230.
Lekhak, M. M. and Yadav, S. R. (2012). Herbacious vegetation of threatened high altitude lateritic plateau ecosystems of Western Ghats, southwestern Maharashtra, India. Rheedea 22: 39-61.
Mao, A. A. and Dash, S. S. (2020). Flowering Plants of India an Annotated Checklist (Dicotyledons) 1: 1-970. Botanical Survey of India.
Mathew, T. and Ahmedullah, M. (1989). Bull. Bot. Surv. India, 31, 161-162.
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. 190-191]
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]
Singh, R. K. R., Garg, A. and Divakar, P. G. (2013).Cryptocoryne cognata Schott and Rotala ritchiei (C.B. Clarke) Koehne - the Critically Endangered aquatic herbs on verge of extinction. Current Science 105(4): 437-438.