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Download Download PLATINUM The Journal of Threatened Taxa (JoTT) is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles OPEN ACCESS online every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of artcles in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Editorial Pakshirajan Lakshminarasimhan: a plant taxonomist who loved plants and people alike Mandar N. Datar 26 July 2020 | Vol. 12 | No. 10 | Pages: 16195–16203 DOI: 10.11609/jot.6472.12.10.16195-16203 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies, and Guidelines visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. The journal, the publisher, the host, and the part- Publisher & Host ners are not responsible for the accuracy of the politcal boundaries shown in the maps by the authors. Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 July 2020 | 12(10): 16195–16203 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) PLATINUM OPEN ACCESS DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.6472.12.10.16195-16203 #6472 | Received 24 July 2020 E d i Pakshirajan Lakshminarasimhan: a plant taxonomist who loved plants t o and people alike r i a Mandar N. Datar l Agharkar Research Insttute, G.G. Agarkar Road, Shivajinagar, Pune, Maharashtra 411004, India, [email protected] Dr. Pakshirajan Lakshminarasimhan, a very prominent fgure in Indian plant taxonomy passed away in Pune on 15 July 2020 due to COVID-19 infecton. He retred merely a year back as the in-charge of the Western Regional Centre, Botanical Survey of India, Pune in August 2019. His farewell functon atended by a large gathering of his colleagues, friends, and students speak volumes about how he nurtured relatonship with his colleagues and mentored his students during the course of research actvites. Dr. Lakshminarasimhan was born in Pune on 28 August 1959. He opted for M.Sc. in Botany at Pune University and wanted to specialize in cytogenetcs. However, he was ofered plant taxonomy as a specializaton, and on the advice of one of his professors, decided to go with it. Afer completon of his master’s degree in 1982, he joined as Research Scholar in the western circle, Pune of Botanical Survey of India and worked there untl 1987. BSI Pune at that point of tme was renowned for producing eminent taxonomists and was preparing district Floras under the circle’s jurisdicton. Young Lakshminarasimhan was ofered to work on the ‘Flora of Nashik District’ and simultaneously registered for his Ph.D. under the guidance of Dr. Brahma Data Sharma. Nashik District is a signifcant district of the northern region of Western Ghats. Lakshminarasimhan did was awarded Ph.D. in October 1987 by the University of extensive feldwork in the district and, based on the work, Pune. A new species, Dicliptera nasikensis Lakshmin. & Date of publicaton: 26 July 2020 (online & print) Citaton: Datar, M.N. (2020). Pakshirajan Lakshminarasimhan: a plant taxonomist who loved plants and people alike. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(10): 16195–16203. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.6472.12.10.16195-16203 Copyright: © Datar 2020. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Competng interests: The author declares no competng interests. Acknowledgements: I am thankful to the Director, Agharkar Research Insttute, Pune. I acknowledge inputs from Dr. P. Tetali, Dr. Avishek Bhatacharjee, Dr. W. Arisdason, Dr. Gopal Krishna, Mr. Sameer Patl, Dr. Sharad Kamble, and Ms. Smrithy Vijayan. 16195 J TT P. Lakshminarasimhan B.D. Sharma, was published by him during this work, the frst of the many. His thesis was further modifed and updated for the book and was published by BSI in 1991 under the name ‘Flora of Nasik District’. Simultaneously, he joined BSI on permanent positons as botanist frst and later as scientst in 1989. When nobody preferred, he gracefully accepted his frst postng as Scientst B in Andaman and Nicobar circle, Port Blair. It was a good opportunity. He studied with deep interest the fora of oceanic islands. At this new venue, he started work on the fora of Andaman & Nicobar Islands for 17 plant families and a project for documentng Flora of Interview Island, North Andamans. His stay at Port Blair yielded a large number of publicatons on the fora of Shrinath Kavade, P. Lakshminarasimhan, K.N. Gandhi, Rajendra Andaman & Nicobar. His frst transfer brought him to Shinde and Mandar Datar (from lef). Pune Circle in 1993 and he joined hands with stalwarts like Dr. S. Karthikeyan, Dr. B.D. Sharma, and Dr. N.P. Singh for bringing out the Flora of Maharashtra State. Afer crafs learned, and new perspectves developed to Cooke’s Flora, which was published a century ago, this look at taxonomy, he came back to India and joined the was going to be a major compilaton for this biodiversity- Central Natonal Herbarium in 2004. He initated works rich state. The frst volume on Monocotyledons was on the Flora of wildlife sanctuaries in Jharkhand, Flora published in 1996 while the dicot volumes appeared of Lakshadweep, and the editng of Flora of West Bengal in 2000 and 2001. Simultaneously, he also worked on volumes III and IV immediately. In 2007 and 2008 his frst the Flora of Karnataka State, Monocotyledones and three students were awarded Ph.D. from Pune University soon submited the draf. In associaton with Dr. Tetali and the next batch of Ph.D. scholars promptly registered of Nowroji Godrej Centre of Plant Research and other under him. The beginning of the new decade in 2010 like-minded scientsts, he published a book on endemic came with new responsibilites for him as he was ofered plants of Maharashtra State. At the beginning of the the in-charge positon of Central Natonal Herbarium, new millennium, the Ministry of Environment and the largest and prime herbarium in India. The same Forests launched an ambitous project of documentng year saw the establishment of ENVIS Centre on Floral plant diversity of natonal parks and sanctuaries of the Diversity of BSI, Howrah with support from MoEF, and country under the scheme ‘Protected Area Network’. Dr. Lakshminarasimhan was the undoubted choice for Lakshaminarasimhan, by that tme in a lead scientst’s heading the responsibilites. The year 2010 was the best role, post-retrement of many senior personals from the in his career not just due to these new responsibilites Pune circle, coordinated this actvity for the western but also for felicitatons coming from reputed natonal Indian region. He started work on the fora of Anshi and organizatons like IAAT and APT. The appreciaton of his Nagarhole in Karanataka, Molem in Goa, and Gugamal eforts to shape Indian plant taxonomy came in the form in Maharashtra. I was fortunate to get picked to work of M.B. Raizada Gold Medal 2010 by the Associaton for on this project and Lakshminarasimhan alloted me Plant Taxonomy and V.V. Sivarajan Gold Medal 2010 by the work on Molem Natonal Park. This opportunity to the Indian Associaton for Angiosperm Taxonomy. work with him and subsequent Ph.D. under his guidance Through ENVIS centre of MoEF, he published changed my life completely. bibliographies and abstracts of states like Maharashtra, In the mid of 2002, he got a golden chance to go to Kerala, Goa, Karnataka, West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar Royal Botanic Garden, Kew on deputaton as the Indian in the coming years. Around the same tme, three foras Botanical Liaison Ofcer. He worked there between May of the protected areas worked under the PAN project 2002 and November 2004. Going beyond his ofcial were published. Anshi Natonal Park by Biosphere, obligatons, he not only helped numerous taxonomists Pune, and Nagarhole, and Molem by Botanical Survey from India with their literature and other requests but of India. Following this, Flora of India Volume 23 was also further fne-tuned his own skills as a taxonomist. also published where he was co-editor. His obsession His associaton with Dr. K.N. Gandhi, a world-renowned with endemic plants which started with a book on nomenclature expert started from there. With new endemic plants of Maharashtra, lead to the publicaton 16196 Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 July 2020 | 12(10): 16195–16203 J TT P. Lakshminarasimhan With Dr. Mao, current Director of Botanical Survey of India. of ‘Endemic vascular plants of India’ in associaton with others. This is an important compilaton for a biodiversity- rich country like India as this can pave way for many interestng ecological hypotheses on endemism. Flora of West Bengal came out in three volumes in 2015, 2016 Presentng Flora of Molem Natonal Park, Goa to Manohar Parrikar, and 2020 with Dr. Lakshminarasimhan as co-editor and the then Defence Minister of India. co-author. He was transferred to the Western Regional Centre, up his achievements in a nutshell, he has published Pune (erstwhile Western Circle) in 2015, and worked about 155 papers, authored and edited 25 books there for four years before retring as Scientst E in and contributed book chapters in 15 books, guided August 2019.
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