Rare alpine herb confirmed in India after 158 years
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Researchers rediscovered Cyananthus hookeri, a small purple-blue flowering alpine herb, in Chuna Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India in 2025 at 3,600 meters elevation—the first confirmed record from India in 158 years and the first from that state. The species was last documented in India by botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker in Sikkim in 1867.
The population is extremely small (fewer than 50 mature individuals) and restricted to harsh, remote alpine terrain, making it vulnerable to climate change and random fluctuations.
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