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Dec
Sapria Himalayana Griffith is an endoparasitic, rare, and endangered plant that was found by a team of Bengaluru, Karnataka, researchers in the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary (EWS) in the Singchung subdivision of the West Kameng district. With the help of devoted employees Dibi Soma Monpa and Karma Wangdi Monpa from the EWS, the team from the Centre for Ecological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru—which included Anisha Mandal, Aman Bishwakarma, Kabir Pradhan, and Rohit Rai—made the finding. The eastern Himalayan region is renowned for its amazing and widespread floral and faunal biodiversity, which includes numerous rare plant species. Sapria…