Volume 25, Issue 76, July - December, 2024

Anisomeles heyneana Benth. (Lamiaceae): A New Distributional Record for Bihar, India

Acharya Balkrishna^1,2, Amit Kumar¹, Bhasker Joshi^1,2♦, Anupam Srivastava¹, Ved Priya Arya¹, Inam Mohammed¹, Rajesh Kumar Mishra^1,3

¹Patanjali Research Foundation, Haridwar, Uttarakhand-249405, India
²University of Patanjali, Uttarakhand-249405, India
³Patanjali Bhartiya Ayurvigyan Evam Anusandhan Sansthan, Haridwar, Uttarakhand-249405, India

^♦Corresponding Author
Patanjali Research Foundation, University of Patanjali, Haridwar, Uttarakhand-249405, India

ABSTRACT

During plant exploration along the Ganga River in Bihar, some specimens of the family Lamiaceae were collected and identified as Anisomeles heyneana Benth. After extensive study, the species mentioned above was previously unrecorded in Bihar's floristic documentation and is now reported as a new distributional record for Bihar. The detailed morphological description, field and microscopic photographs, distribution, ecology, threat status and a note on its variation from allied species is given for easy identification.

Keywords: Anisomeles heyneana, Bihar, Lamiaceae, New Report

Species, 2024, 25(76), e35s1699

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i76.e35s1699

Published: 25 July 2024