I guess it is correct !
https://ppbc.iplant.cn/tu/15773093
Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju


On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 8:19 PM Madhusudhan Khanal <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Wonderful find. Characters matches well with Mazus motuoensis. Don't think
> it has been reported yet from India. Would be better to report it as a new
> addition for India.
> Regards,
> Madhusudhan Khanal
>
>
> On Sun, 21 Jul, 2024, 7:41 pm Mohina Macker, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I photographed this Mazus species a little ahead of Mayudia Pass, near
>> the little town of Hunli, on the road that goes from Roing to Anini in
>> Arunachal Pradesh last year april 2023. After I started reading about Mazus
>> species seen from India I quickly realised that it wasn't one of them.
>>
>> There are about 40 odd recognized mazus species worldwide and this
>> particular plant  matches rather closely with Mazus motuonensis from Tibet
>> which was described very recently in November 2023.
>>
>> Many of the vegetative parts including the flowers, leaves and stem as
>> well as the habit are very similar. Of course I didn't uproot the plant, so
>> It is not possible to match the roots and Rhizome, and unfortunately I
>> didn't take photographs of the basal leaves, though some of the leaves
>> towards the base can be seen in one of the photographs.
>>
>> The altitude of Mayudia pass is 2655 m, and the location where this plant
>> was photographed is considerably lower, about 1800-1900 m. It was
>> photographed besides the road under broad leaved trees.
>>
>> This species is named after Nibi valley of Motuo county in Xizang
>> Province, which when I looked up the map is probably 150-200 km from the
>> location where I photographed this plant as a bird would fly.
>>
>> I am copying a couple of passages from the note titled  
>> *Mazus motuoensis* (Mazaceae), a new species from Xizang, China
>> authered by [image: expand article info]Wen-Bin Ju, Xiong Li,
>> Heng-Ning Deng, Meng Li, Xing-Jin He, Xin-Fen Gao, Bo Xu
>>
>> The new species is distinguished from congeneric species by its rhizomes,
>> perennial herb covered with multicellular white villus, erect and
>> unbranched stems, having no basal leaves, stem leaves opposite, subsessile,
>> lower lobes margins erose-toothed.
>>
>> Currently, the authors have discovered only one population of
>> *Mazus motuoensis* from one single locality in Nibi Valley of Motuo
>> County in Xizang Province, China, and ca. 30 individuals from the type
>> locality. Evergreen broad-leaved forests are widely distributed in this
>> area, so we speculate that this new species has a relatively wide
>> distribution range. Due to insufficient field survey, the natural
>> distribution of this species in the wild is not clear. Following the IUCN
>> Red List criteria (2019), we suggest this species placement in the Data
>> Deficient.
>> this is the link to note : https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/111092/
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