Hubbardia heptaneuron Bor (1950:385)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hubbardia hepataneuron Bor (1951) [orth. error used by Khoshoo, 1996:509]
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: early 1930's (Rao et al., 2003:xvii)
Rediscovered in 2002 (Rao et al., 2003:xvii)
Distribution
Arsenagundi Falls & Jog Falls, Karnataka, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bor, N. L. (1950). A new genus of Indian grasses. Kew Bulletin 5: 385-388, pl. 4.
Other references:
Bor, N. L. (1960). The Grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India and Pakistan. Pergamon Press, Oxford. Pp. 572-573, 685.
Chandore, A. N., Gosavi, K. V., Gund, C. S. M., Gurav, R. V. and Yadav, S. R. (2012). Hubbardia diandra, a new species of Poaceae from the northern Western Ghats with a note on tribe Hubbardiae. Kew Bulletin 67: 533-537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-012-9365-5
Clayton, W. D., Harman, K. T. and Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Naik, H. S. Y. and Krishnamurthy, Y. L. (2020). A taxonomic note on Hubbardia heptaneuron in Shivamogga District, Karnataka. Plantasia #17, In: Zoo’s Print 35(3): 18-20.
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. 303]
Potdar, G.G., C.B. Salunkhe & S.R. Yadav (2003). Rediscovery of a long lost monotypic, endemic grass genus Hubbardia Bor of the Western Ghats, pp. 317-320. In: Janarthananm, M.K. & D. Narasimhan (eds.) Plant Diversity, Human Welfare and Conservation.
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 3 March 2025]
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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]
Salunkhe, C. B., Yadav, S. R. and Potdar, G. G. (2002). Rediscovery of Grass Hubbardia. Species, 38, pp.12.
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. [still listed as presumed 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.
Yadav, S.R., A.N. Chandore, R.V. Nimbalkar & Gurav (2009). Reintroduction of Hubbardia heptaneuron Bor a critically endangered endemic grass in Western Ghats. Current Science 96: 880.