Rare 'Lipstick' plant rediscovered in India after 100 years - here's where!

One hundred years later the discovery of the lipstick plant came as a surprise.

In 1912, the British botanist Stephen Troyte Dunn discovered a rare plant called the ‘Lipstick’ plant in Arunachal Pradesh. Its plant name is Aeschynanthus monetaria Dunn.

In a recent article, Krishna Savlu, an Indian botanist, mentioned that it is called a lipstick plant because it resembles a tube-like red Eskinanthas plant.

Krishna Savlu said that while conducting research on flowers in the Anjao district of Arunachal Pradesh in December 2021, he collected some plant samples and discovered that they were the lipstick plant of India.

This lipstick flower grows in evergreen forests between 543 and 1134 m. The flowering and ripening period is October and January, according to researchers. Considered a rare plant, it is endangered, say botanists. The discovery of the lipstick plant in India almost 110 years later has come as a surprise.