Wonderful find. Characters matches well with Mazus motuoensis. Don't think it has been reported yet from India. Would be better to report it as a new addition for India. Regards, Madhusudhan Khanal
On Sun, 21 Jul, 2024, 7:41 pm Mohina Macker, <[email protected]> wrote: > I photographed this Mazus species a little ahead of Mayudia Pass, near the > little town of Hunli, on the road that goes from Roing to Anini in > Arunachal Pradesh last year april 2023. After I started reading about Mazus > species seen from India I quickly realised that it wasn't one of them. > > There are about 40 odd recognized mazus species worldwide and this > particular plant matches rather closely with Mazus motuonensis from Tibet > which was described very recently in November 2023. > > Many of the vegetative parts including the flowers, leaves and stem as > well as the habit are very similar. Of course I didn't uproot the plant, so > It is not possible to match the roots and Rhizome, and unfortunately I > didn't take photographs of the basal leaves, though some of the leaves > towards the base can be seen in one of the photographs. > > The altitude of Mayudia pass is 2655 m, and the location where this plant > was photographed is considerably lower, about 1800-1900 m. It was > photographed besides the road under broad leaved trees. > > This species is named after Nibi valley of Motuo county in Xizang > Province, which when I looked up the map is probably 150-200 km from the > location where I photographed this plant as a bird would fly. > > I am copying a couple of passages from the note titled > *Mazus motuoensis* (Mazaceae), a new species from Xizang, China > authered by [image: expand article info]Wen-Bin Ju, Xiong Li, > Heng-Ning Deng, Meng Li, Xing-Jin He, Xin-Fen Gao, Bo Xu > > The new species is distinguished from congeneric species by its rhizomes, > perennial herb covered with multicellular white villus, erect and > unbranched stems, having no basal leaves, stem leaves opposite, subsessile, > lower lobes margins erose-toothed. > > Currently, the authors have discovered only one population of > *Mazus motuoensis* from one single locality in Nibi Valley of Motuo > County in Xizang Province, China, and ca. 30 individuals from the type > locality. Evergreen broad-leaved forests are widely distributed in this > area, so we speculate that this new species has a relatively wide > distribution range. Due to insufficient field survey, the natural > distribution of this species in the wild is not clear. Following the IUCN > Red List criteria (2019), we suggest this species placement in the Data > Deficient. > this is the link to note : https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/111092/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "eFloraofIndia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAGyuhTw8548K_Awe2jTQXynAC%3DZHJG4CSw%2BmBRJAo0aThPQLwQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAGyuhTw8548K_Awe2jTQXynAC%3DZHJG4CSw%2BmBRJAo0aThPQLwQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAO-iw80gCrc8BoWSWvtNT4WSvKJzNcKpjh6NVSFF01vQUierbA%40mail.gmail.com.
