Momang Taram

Rajiv Gandhi University · Department of Botany

Lysionotus chatungii M.Taram, A.P Das & H.Tag, a new species of Gesneriaceae is describedfrom Geku in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh in North-Eastern India. The newspecies is presented here along with its detailed description, habitat structure and distributionalong with a plate of color photographs for its easy recognition.

Henckelia siangensis, a new species from Arunachal Pradesh of Northeast India, is described and illustrated here. The new species is remarkably different from all other allied species by its 5-winged calyx and elliptic-ovate calyx segments. It superficially resembles H. calva in glabrous stem and petioles, but differs from it in having persistent b...

A new species of Begonia sect. Platycentrum, B. kekarmonyingensis, from Kekar Monying, a place of historical significance in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India is illustrated and described. It is allied to B. cathcartii and B. menglianensis, and morphological similarities and differences between the species are discussed. It has been assessed as Vu...

The present ethnobotanical investigation reports 21 species of Gesneriaceae used by the indigenous tribal communities namely Adi, Galo, Nyishi, Tagin, Tangsa and Lisu of Arunachal Pradesh. Rhynchotechum parviflorum, Rhynchotechum ellipticum and Boeica fulva were found abundant and widely used as both food and medicinal purposes. However, Rhynchotec...

Herein, we present the first record of Henckelia longipedicellata (B.L.Burtt) D.J.Middleton & Mich.Möller (Gesneriaceae) for the flora of India based on specimens from Mayodia, Mishmi Hills, Lower Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh, India and its rediscovery after type collection. This species is easily recognized due to its solitary flowe...

Repeated expeditions conducted in Arunachal Pradesh resulted in the discovery of a unique Begonia, Begonia bijantiae D.Borah, Taram & M.Hughes, belonging to Begonia sect. Diploclinium. This species is described here based on collections made in Hunli, Lower Dibang Valley District of Arunachal Pradesh. Additionally, a poorly known spe- cies, Begonia...

Henckelia monantha only known from China so far is newly recorded for the Flora of India from Arunachal Pradesh. The species is close to Henckelia briggsioides but can be differentiated by its size of the calyx tube as well as the presence and absence of ovary indumentum. Detailed description of H. monantha, live plant photographs and ecology are p...

Two species of the genus Henckelia, H. forrestii (J. Anthony) D.J. Middleton & Mich. Möller and H. infundibuliformis (W. T. Wang) D. J. Middleton & Mich. Möller are recorded as new for the Flora of India from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Extended taxonomic descriptions are provided for the species accompanied by photographs and ecology.

A verdant plot of land in Nirjuli, Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh, is home to an impressive array of biodiversity. Within this modest expanse, 156 species of flowering plants, representing 129 genera and 57 families thrive astoundingly. Notably, 11 of these species are only found in North East India, with five ( Amomum arunachalense, Boei...

A species of the essentially Sino-Himalayan genus Didymocarpus (Gesneriaceae), D. medogensis, described in 1982 from China/SE Xizang (SE Tibet), is newly recorded for India. Since its establishment, the species remained very little known. A full documentation, including an updated description based on living plants and colour photographs of plants...

Peliosanthes maheswariana D. Borah, N. Tanaka & Taram, sp. nov. is described and illustrated from West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh, NE India. It is similar to P. sinica F.T.Wang & Tang in sharing such characters as a long proximally creeping stem and tufts of leaves at some intervals, but can be clearly distinguished mainly by the larger l...

Borah, D., M. Taram & M. Hughes (2023). Begonia egamii (Begoniaceae), a remarkable new species from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Candollea 78: 147–151. In English, English abstract. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15553/c2023v782a5 The new species Begonia egamii D. Borah, Taram & M. Hughes (Begoniaceae) is described based on collections made in Leparada Dis...

The status of the species Rhynchoglossum lazulinum A.S.Rao & Joseph as distinct from R. ampliatum (C.B.Clarke) B.L.Burtt is discussed. It is concluded that Rhynchoglossum lazulinum should be treated as a synonym of R. ampliatum.

The Lower Dibang Valley district is situated in Northeastern part of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India. In tropical and subtropical parts of the district two local species of ginger ('Kekir': Zingiber sianginense Tatum & A.K. Das and 'Kedang' or 'Kero': Zingiber officinale Roscoe) are widely cultivated as cash-crop. Ginger is cultivated in wet s...

We report two taxa (Begonia medogensis and B. asperifolia) as new records for the flora of India.

Henckelia arupii, a new species discovered from Arunachal Pradesh, India, is described and illustrated. The new species is superficially similar to Henckelia adenocalyx and three other Northeast Indian species in habit, in the broadly ovate foliaceous bracts covering the flower buds, in the parallel‐convergent venation of the bracts and in the infu...

A taxonomic investigation of four genera (Rhynchoglossum, Epithema, Stauranthera and Whytockia) of the tribe Epithemateae of the family Gesneriaceae was carried out in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India during 2016–2021. This article reports on five species, with brief notes on their habitat, along with color photographs to aid in identification...

A taxonomic investigation on the genus Rhynchotechum Blume (Gesneriaceae) in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India was carried out during 2018-2022. The present revisionary studies have reported 7 taxa from Arunachal Pradesh. All the recorded species are enumerated here with taxonomic keys and notes based on morphological characters of living plant...

Based on recent collections from Arunachal Pradesh (Northeast India), a new species of Gesneriaceae, Whytockia arunachalensis, Taram, D.Borah & Tag is described. It differs from the other species of WhytockiaW.W.S.m. by its extensive, dense and uniform indumentum over the entire plant and is closely related to the white, but smaller-flowered congen...

The new species Begonia markiana is described and illustrated. It is similar to B. cathcartii but can easily be distinguished by a lamina with a dark central spot and a densely pilose upper surface in combination with a short dorsal capsule wing. A phylogenetic analysis based on three chloroplast regions placed the new species together with other c...

Impatiens pasighatensis D. Borah, R. Kr. Singh & Taram, a new species from the Eastern Himalayan state Arunachal Pradesh, India, is described and illustrated.

A new species, Begonia arunachalensis D.Borah & Wahlsteen (Begoniaceae) is described and illustrated. It is distributed in Papum Pare District of Arunachal Pradesh where it grows near streams in rock crevices. Begonia arunachalensis is similar to B. brevicaulis A.DC. but differs in its pendent fruits, number of locules and capsule wings, and longer...

A new species, Begonia pasighatensis D.Borah, Taram & Wahlsteen (Begoniaceae) is described and illustrated. It is easily distinguished from all other species in the section Platycentrum by its swollen, spherical ovary with two wings reduced to ridges and a long, pointing upper wing. The new species belongs to Begonia section Platycentrum and is dis...

Two new species of Henckelia from the Eastern Himalayan state Arunachal Pradesh, India, are described and illustrated. The first, Henckelia dasii Taram, D.Borah, R.Kr.Singh & Tag is allied to H. umbellata Kanthraj & K.N.Nair, the second, H. lallanii Taram, D.Borah, Tag & R.Kr.Singh is close to H. urticifolia (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) A.Dietr. (type spe...

Begonia, belonging to the family Begoniaceae, is one of the largest Angiosperm genera with a pan-tropical distribution. Northeastern India shows a high degree of endemism with several endemic species described from the region. Begonia dicressine, so far known from Myanmar, has been recorded for the first time in India from Changlang district of Aru...

One neotype, three second-step lectotypes and forty lectotypes are designated for forty four names in Indian Impatiens to fix the identity and to avoid the misapplication of names. Thirty nine names are synonymized, after a detailed ecological study of live plants in the field and examination of herbarium specimens including types. Six new combinat...

The recently rediscovered Strobilanthes tubiflos (C.B.Clarke) J.R.I.Wood is fully described for the first time. A key and photographs are provided to enable identification of similar species found in north east India. The rediscovery of S. tubiflos is discussed in the context of the botanical exploration of the region and the implications for conse...

Begonia limprichtii (Begoniaceae) is reported from India for the first time. It belongs to the section Platycentrum and is similar to B. thomsonii, but is overall less hairy with ovary nearly glabrous (versus villous) and upper ovary wing beaked and rounded (versus triangular).

Hoya oreogena Kerr (Apocynaceae), so far known from Thailand and Myanmar, is reported for the first time from India. Synonimization of H. salweenica Tsiang & P.T.Li and H. revolubilis Tsiang & P.T.Li has also been made. Its distribution extends to China.

Aeschynanthus lineatus Craib, previously known from Southern China, Myanmar and Thailand, is reported for the first time from India.

The present study is an outcome of floristic surveys of East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh, carried out during 2016–2019, and also a compilation of earlier published reports. Vegetation analysis of this area along with a checklist of 508 taxa is presented. A total of 503 species, one subspecies and four varieties of native flowering plants be...

We present the first record of Beccarinda tonkinensis (Pellegr.) B.L. Burtt (Gesneriaceae) for India on the basis of specimens collected in Kerang and Yosing, Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The species is easily recognized from its congeners by its decumbent stem, basal leaves, axillary cymes and broadly ovate bracts. Until now, Beccar...

The present study was aimed to document the traditional ethnobotanical knowledge in Komkar-Adi Biocultural Landscape of Upper Siang District in Arunachal Pradesh (Eastern Himalaya), India. Data was collected from three villages of Geku circle, Upper Siang District between the year 2016-2019, covering more than 50% of the total households using semi...

Based on detailed study of type specimens, other herbarium specimens, field study and relevant literature, the recently described new species Henckelia collegii-sancti-thomasii A. Joe, D. Borah, Taram & Sandhya is treated here as a synonym of little known, narrow endemic species H. hookeri (C.B. Clarke) D.J. Middleton & Mich. Möller of Northeast In...

Boeica arunachalensis, a species new to the science from eastern Himalayan state of India, Arunachal Pradesh is described. Coloured photo plate and micrograph of new species and its allied species B. fulva Clarke are provided. Identity of B. griffithii Clarke is discussed and lectotype are designated here for B. filiformis Clarke, B. fulva Clarke,...

Peliosanthes macrophylla var. assamensis, a new variety from Behali Reserve Forest in Assam, Northeast India, is described with accompanying photos and relevant taxonomic data. It differs from var. macrophylla from Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, Northeast India, mainly by the staminal corona internally protruding near the middle (vs internally uprig...

Occurrence of Saurauia sinohirsuta J. Q. Li & Soejarto (Actinidiaceae) is reported for the first time from Arunachal Pradesh, India.

A new species, Pseuderanthemum arunachalense from eastern Himalaya, India is described and lectotype for Pseuderanthemum album, P. leptanthum and Sphinctacanthus parkinsonii are designated here. The new species is easily distinguished from its allied species, P. leptanthum by its broad oblanceolate or broad elliptic, longer leaves, longer infloresc...

The new species Begonia oyuniae M.Taram & N.Krishna is described from Arunachal Pradesh. It belongs to Begonia sect. Monophyllon A.DC., which is a new sectional record for India. Begonia oyuniae shares the ability to produce plantlets at the leaf tip with B. vagans Craib (Begonia sect. Alicida C.B.Clarke) and B. elisabethae Kiew (Begonia sect. Parv...

A new species of Rhynchotechum (Gesneriaceae), Rhynchotechum nirijuliense Taram & D.Borah, is described from Nirijuli of Papum Pare district in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. The new species is compared to Rhynchotechum ellipticum and R. calycinum. A detailed description, colour photographs and notes on the distribution and ecology of the new...

Mainland Southeast Asia, particularly southern China and eastern Indochina, is known as an important centre of diversity for Asparagaceae (Averynov & Tanaka 2012). Tupistra Ker Gawler (1814: 1655) belonging to the subfamily Nolinoideae (Chase et al. 2009) comprises a little more than 30 species (Averyanov et al. 2019). They spread across southern a...

A new species of Peliosanthes named P. ligniradicis from Arunachal Pradesh, NE India, is described and illustrated here. It somewhat resembles P. subspicata described from NE India, but is distinguishable by the thicker, stilt-like, semi-woody roots, somewhat elongate (sub) moniliform stem, ovate-oblong or oblong perianth segments, and basally hexa...

Lysionotus gamosepalus W. T. Wang var. gamosepalus (Gesneriaceae) is reported for the fi rst time from India.

Rhynchotechum parviflorum is reported for the first time from Mainland India. Colored photograph and additional details are provided.

We present the first record of Boeica multinervia (Gesneriaceae) for India, based on specimens from Sagalee, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The species is easily recognized due to its short internodes, stoloniferous habit, and glandular pubes-cent rosette leaves and inflorescence. Boeica multinervia is so far known only from (Xizang) China. A brief desc...

Present paper discusses ethnobotany of the economically significant food and medicinal plants used among the Monpa and Nyishi community of West Kameng and Kamle District of Arunachal Pradesh in cross-cultural approaches. The 49 species of both cultivated and wild food and medicinal plants recorded from Monpa and Nyishi biocultural landscape are fre...

With objective to investigate the diversity of ethnobotanically significant angiospermic weeds used among the Adi community in the Siang belt of Arunachal Pradesh in their traditional biocultural landscape has recorded a total of 87 weed species. Many of these are economic significant and growing luxuriantly on the roadside, wasteland, jhum land an...

The annual herb Solanum villosum Mill. (Solanaceae) is reported here as a new distributional record to the flora of Arunachal Pradesh, India along with notes on its distribution in Eastern India. Detailed description of the species along with some coloured photographs and uses are provided here for its easy recognition in the field.

Aristolochia assamica D. Borah & T.V. Do (Aristolochiaceae), a new species from the East Himalayas (NE India) is described and illustrated. It has purplish to greenish terete stems, brownish ovate-lanceolate bracteoles with a short stalk at base and acuminate apex, cymes with 2–15 flowers, fasciculate, on extremely short inflorescence axes, a sessi...

Henckelia collegii-sancti-thomasii, a new species of Henckelia is described here from Nirijuli, Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Detailed description, its habitat and ecology along with color photographs are provided.

Panax arunachalensis, a new species in Araliaceae from Ziro valley in Lower Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeastern India is recognized and named. Its nomenclature along with detailed description, distribution, suitable photographs and illustration are provided. A comparison of the species with known species of Panax L. from the Ind...

Ethnobotanical field survey was conducted in 10 villages of the Tagin community of Upper Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh during the month of May-June 2018 using semi-structured questionnaire and focused group discussion methods. The investigation reveals 70 species belonging to 62 genera and 44 plant families along with some unique sets of...

Upper Siang is endowed with a variety of wild edible plants (WEPs) ranging from fruits and leafy vegetables to tubers utilized by the residents. Data were collected during 2016-2017 through unstructured interview and consultation with key informants. Hundred twenty two species were documented that belong to sixty families, amongst them Asteraceae i...