Nepeta duthiei Mukerjee (Lamiaceae): An Endangered and Endemic Himalayan Herb Rediscovered from Himachal Pradesh after 130 Years

Nepeta duthiei Mukerjee (Lamiaceae): An Endangered and Endemic Himalayan Herb Rediscovered from Himachal Pradesh after 130 Years

Authors

  •   H. B. Naithani   Systematic Botany Discipline, Forest Botany Division Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun
  •   Anup Chandra   Systematic Botany Discipline, Forest Botany Division Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun

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https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2019/v145i11/149933

Abstract

Nepeta L. is the largest genus of family Lamiaceae with ca 300 species, most of which are herbaceous perennial (Pojarkova, 1954; Baser et al., 2000); Jamzad et al. (2005). In India Nepeta is the second largest genus of Indian Lamiaceae, with ca 41 species, out of which 37 occur in Western Himalaya (Mukerjee, 1940; Hassan and Dar, 2013). Twenty three (23) species are known to occur in Uttarakhand state including Nepeta duthiei (Uniyal et al., 2007).

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2019-11-01

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Naithani, H. B., & Chandra, A. (2019). Nepeta <i>duthiei Mukerjee</i> (Lamiaceae): An Endangered and Endemic Himalayan Herb Rediscovered from Himachal Pradesh after 130 Years. Indian Forester, 145(11), 1121–1122. https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2019/v145i11/149933

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