DOI: 10.54207/bsmps2000-2005-mhx03o ISSN: 0971-9415

Ex situ conservation and clonal propagation of a critically endangered endemic wild cinnamon from the southern Western Ghats

Sainudeen Shareef, Sam Mathew, G. Thulasidas
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Cinnamomum heyneanum Nees, an endemic wild relative of commercial Cinnamon, confined only to type collection from Karnataka State and thought to be extinct until the recent rediscovery after 185 years from the evergreen forests of Kerala. The present article discusses the ex situ conservation of this critically endangered Lauraceous aromatic species through field gene bank of the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI) and successful clonal multiplication through air layering for further advance research and bioprospecting of the same.

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