Crinum woodrowii Baker (Amaryllidaceae), hitherto assumed to be extinct, rediscovered after a century from Mahabaleshwar, India

摘要

The genus Crinum L. is represented in India by 12 species, 3 varieties and 1 form of which 3 species and 1 form, viz, Crinum brachynema Herb. C. eleonorae Blatt. & McC. f. eleonorae, C, eleonorae f. purpurea Blatt, & McC. and C. woodrowii Baker are endemic to Mahabaleshwar and adjoining areas in Maharashtra. The first one was recently recollected from the Kates Point, Mahabaleshwar after a lapse of 94 years and the remaining three were assumed to be possibly extinct. During florlstic exploration of the above-mentioned area between 2001 and 2004, we collected and identified C. woodrowii Baker after a lapse of hundred years. G. M. Woodrow first collected this species from Mahabaleshwar, Several bulbs of this were sent to Kew (England) supposing them to be C. brachynema Herb,, but when they flowered at Kew the plant proved to be a new species and was described by Baker as C. woodrowii. It has been so far represented only by a single sheet in Calcutta Herbarium (CAL) collected by Woodrow in 1899; after that report it was not collected again from the type locality or elsewhere.