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Launching of the ‘Green Initiative, Kerala’ project of KSCSTE by planting Madhuca diplostemon, the Critically Endangered tree rediscovered by JNTBGRI taxonomists after a hiatus of 184 years

Madhuca diplostemon (C.B.Clarke) P.Royen of the family Sapotaceae is an IUCN Red listed Threatened species of the Western Ghats, first reported by Robert Wight in 1835 (Wight’s identification of the specimen was wrong, but C.B. Clarke in 1897 and P. Royen in 1960 correctly identified the species). For 184 years,…