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Eight endangered florae in TN
June 22 , 2024
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- Tamil Nadu Government’s mission to conserve endangered and rare flora having shortlisted the eight species of rare plants, which fall under the vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered category.
- These eight plants have been shortlisted from a list of 25 rare plants.
- The eight species have been categorised as ‘prioritised species’.
- Vernonia shevaroyensis that occurs in Shevaroy hills in Salem is a critically endangered tree.
- There was one tree of Vernonia shevaroyensis at the Botanical Survey of India’s botanical garden at Yercaud.
- Phyllanthus anamalayanus found in Anamalai hills and some locations of the Valparai plateau in Coimbatore district is a critically endangered species.
- Dipterocarpus bourdillonii found in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, and Elaeocarpus blascoi found in Vattakanal shola forests of Palani hills in Kodaikanal are the other plants fall under the critically endangered category.
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