Abstract
We collected Gentiana capitata subsp. harwanensis for the first time from Suru valley in Kargil district of Ladakh region, India, and thus extend this subspecies’ geographic distribution to the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region. This subspecies is endemic to India and so far recorded from the North-west and Western Himalaya of India.
Highlights
The genus Gentiana L. was first established by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum (1753)
Gentiana capitata Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don subsp. harwanensis Halda was first described by Singh (1976) as Gentiana harwanensis G.Singh from Harwan in Kashmir (Jammu and Kashmir) and is endemic to India
We provide the first record of this subspecies from the Suru valley, in the Kargil district of Ladakh region, India, and extend this subspecies’ geographic distribution to the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region
Summary
The genus Gentiana L. was first established by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum (1753). In India, Gentiana is represented by about 68 species. Approximately 32 species occur in Jammu and Kashmir (Garg 1987, Gupta et al 2012, Maity 2014, Anilkumar et al 2015, Shabir et al 2017, 2018). Harwanensis Halda was first described by Singh (1976) as Gentiana harwanensis G.Singh from Harwan in Kashmir (Jammu and Kashmir) and is endemic to India. The type locality, Harwan (34°09ʹ32ʺ N, 074°54ʹ13ʺ E), is 15 km from Srinagar Kashmir and is within the temperate biogeographic region in North-western Himalaya. We provide the first record of this subspecies from the Suru valley, in the Kargil district of Ladakh region, India, and extend this subspecies’ geographic distribution to the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region.
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