Lost for 158 years, rare alpine flower rediscovered in Arunachal | Guwahati News
Guwahati: A rare purple-blue alpine flower, last collected in India by legendary British botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1867 in Sikkim, has been rediscovered after 158 years by the scientists of the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) in Arunachal Pradesh.BSI stated, Dr Sudhansu Sekhar Dash, Dr Subhajit Lahiri, and Monalisa Das “have rediscovered the…