Southern Reaches of Western Ghats Yield Three New Plant Species
A team of scientists of the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have reported the discovery of three new plant species from the evergreen forest patches of the southern end of the Western Ghats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. According to Scientists, with climate change and forest fires hampering their spread, documentation of regional flora is vital.
Three News Species
- The three new species — Eugenia sphaerocarpa of the Myrtaceae or Rose apple family; Goniothalamus sericeus of the Annonaceae family of custard apple and Memecylon nervosum of the Melastomataceae (Kayamboo or Kaasavu in local parlance) family — were discovered during a ....
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