Shrub
Guggal
Commiphora wightii
Native to India (Kew)On the Rajasthan Board's rare and threatened plants listOn the Board's critically endangered plants of economic valueIUCN: Critically Endangered, A2cd, assessed 2014
Photographed in Gujarat. This page's Rajasthan facts come from the sources below, not from this photo.
Image: Malaika Mathew Chawla · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 · Khakharavali, Gujarat, 8 November 2024 · Resized
What the sources say
- RajasthanListed for the Aravallis on the Board's list of rare, endangered and threatened plants.[2]
- RajasthanThe Board lists it among critically endangered plants of economic value. The use recorded is gum.[3]
- GlobalGlobally Critically Endangered. The IUCN page says it was assessed in 2014.[17]
Sources
- Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Plants of Rajasthan (55 plants) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
- Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. Critically Endangered Plant Species of Economic Value (8 plants, undated) (government). The Board's page says this list was still under consideration at the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Plants of the World Online (native ranges) (database). Shows native to India. It does not say a plant grows wild in Rajasthan.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
The coloured tag before each fact shows where it was verified. A fact checked for India or the world is not assumed to hold for Rajasthan.
