Guwahati, May 31 -- Reported by Roopak Goswami

Guwahati: Scientists have discovered a new plant species in the forests near Guwahati, a finding that is drawing attention to the hidden biodiversity of the ecologically rich Garbhanga Reserve Forest along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

The newly identified species, named Mycetia assamica, was discovered during botanical surveys in the moist semi-evergreen forests of Garbhanga Reserve Forest and has now been formally described in the international journal Taiwania by researchers Niku Das, Dipankar Borah, Dixit Bora, Sangeeta Deka, Saurav Kumar Boruah and Madhusudhan Khanal.

What makes the discovery particularly significant is that an entirely new flowering plant species was identified close t...