Dr Saubhik Das, a botanist from Taki Government College (affiliated with West Bengal State University), North 24 Parganas of West Bengal discovered a new species, Amaranthus parganensis. The new species has been described from the lower Gangetic Plain of West Bengal, India. Its morphology and distributional range suggest that it is related to A. tricolor L., both adapted to tropical climate, having a sympatric distribution and similar ecology.
His findings has been published in the latest issue ( 4th issue of 23rd volume) of the journal, 'Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature' which is an official journal of Missouri Botanical Garden.
Few months back Dr Saubik reported another new species of Amaranthus which he claims to be new to science and named it Amaranthus bengalense. This was published in 5th issue of 185th volume of the journal 'Phytotaxa'.
