The Western Ghats is famous for various plants and animal species which are unique to that area. Researchers from India and Italy have discovered a new plant species, Sahyadri globe thistle (Echinops sahyadricus) in the Sahyadri hills of the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra. The new plant species comes under the genus Echinops (spiny thistle) which is an erect branched flowering herb with stout stems which is endemic (native and restricted to certain place) to that place.
It is distinguished because of its unique size (9 cms in diameter), composite inflorescence (large number of small flowers clustered together), arrangement of phyllaries (spine like bracts) around the floret (smaller flowers making up the main flowerhead) and type of leaves surface.
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