Guwahati, March 13 -- Researchers have rediscovered a rare plant species from the Apiaceae family, Hymenidium amabile, in India after more than a century.

A team of researchers from the Divisional Forest Office in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, collaborated with the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) to make the discovery near Lagong Tso Lake in Tawang district, located at an altitude of 4,654 meters.

The team identified the plant, which had last been recorded from a specimen collected in Sikkim between 1906 and 1910.

Dr. Manas Bhaumik, Mr. Suman Halder, and Dr. Anand Kumar identified the plant following initial observations by Mr. Tage Haniya, Mr. Abhijeet Das, and Mr. Lishi Tossu, under the leadership of Mr. Piyush A. Gaikwad, Divisional Fo...