A New Species of flowering plant discovered in Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India
The new species Echinops sahyadricus is discovered and described from northern Western Ghats, India. It is endemic to the Maharashtra state and probably restricted to few high mountain peaks in Western Maharashtra.
A paper on the discovery has been published in the international journal 'Nordic Journal of Botany'.
Echinops sahyadricus is distributed in the northern Western Ghats from Salher in Nashik district in the north to Kolhapur district in the south.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (2019), Echinops sahyadricus should be categorised as 'Least Concern' (LC)