‘Two plant species now extinct in the wild’
The Hindu
Boesenbergia rubrolutea and Boesenbergia albolutea were discovered 125 years ago
Two species of plants first collected by botanists more than 125 years ago from Meghalaya and the Andaman Islands are now extinct in the wild, according to a new paper published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa.
Classified under the genus Boesenbergia, the species belong to the family Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of flowering plants. Boesenbergia rubrolutea was first collected from the Khasi Hills, Thera, in Meghalaya on October 10, 1886. Specimens of Boesenbergia albolutea were collected from the Andamans and sent to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, in 1889.
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