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Adhatoda beddomei

Adhatoda beddomei

On the Rajasthan Board's rare and threatened plants list
Adhatoda beddomei (Adhatoda beddomei)

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Scientific name
Adhatoda beddomei
Family
Acanthaceae, order Lamiales
Group
Plant

A rare hill shrub with white flowers.

  • Spot it Shrub with clusters of white flowers.
  • Home Rocky slopes of Mount Abu.
  • Food web Bees and butterflies sip its nectar.
  • Why it matters Feeds pollinators on hill slopes; protecting rare shrubs protects their pollinators too.
Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanThe Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board lists it among the rare, endangered and threatened plants of Rajasthan, for Mount Abu.[2]
  • RajasthanThe Board describes it as a shrub of the Acanthaceae family.[2]

Sources

  1. Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Plants of Rajasthan (55 plants) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

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