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Ceropegia lucida – Rediscovery and New Distribution Record for Arunachal Pradesh, India


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1 Tiger Watch, Maa Farm, Sherpur Khiljipur 322 001, India
2 Elphinstone College, 156, MG Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 032, India
3 AE Travels Pvt Ltd, 47, IIIrd Floor, Bharat Nagar, New Friends Colony, New Delhi 110 025, India
4 Department of Botany, Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj’s Arts, Commerce & Science College, Tryambakeshwar, Nashik 422 212, India
 

The genus Ceropegia L. is represented by 244 taxa worldwide. They are distributed in the Old World ranging from Southeast Asia, India, Madagascar, Tropical Arabia, Canary Islands and Africa, except the Mediterranean region, New Guinea and Northern Australia. There are 59 taxa of Ceropegia in India. Majority of the Ceropegia species are rare in occurrence.
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Authors

Dharmendra Khandal
Tiger Watch, Maa Farm, Sherpur Khiljipur 322 001, India
Sushant More
Elphinstone College, 156, MG Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 032, India
Gaurav Kataria
AE Travels Pvt Ltd, 47, IIIrd Floor, Bharat Nagar, New Friends Colony, New Delhi 110 025, India
Sharad Kambale
Department of Botany, Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj’s Arts, Commerce & Science College, Tryambakeshwar, Nashik 422 212, India

Abstract


The genus Ceropegia L. is represented by 244 taxa worldwide. They are distributed in the Old World ranging from Southeast Asia, India, Madagascar, Tropical Arabia, Canary Islands and Africa, except the Mediterranean region, New Guinea and Northern Australia. There are 59 taxa of Ceropegia in India. Majority of the Ceropegia species are rare in occurrence.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv113%2Fi11%2F2077-2077