The Journal of Threatened Taxa is dedicated to building evidence for conservaon globally by publishing peer-reviewed arcles online every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All arcles published in JoTT are registered under Creave Commons Aribuon 4.0 Internaonal License unless otherwise menoned. JoTT allows unrestricted use of arcles in any medium, reproducon, and distribuon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaon. OPEN ACCESS www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Building evidence for conservaon globally Journal of Threatened Taxa For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies and Guidelines visit hp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Arcle Submission Guidelines visit hp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scienﬁc Misconduct visit hp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints contact <info@threatenedtaxa.org> Short Communications Root holoparasite Balanophora polyandra Griff. (Balanophoraceae) in eastern Himalaya (Sikkim, India): distribution, range, status and threats Prem K. Chhetri, Alexander R. O’Neill & Bijoy Chhetri 26 July 2018 | Vol. 10 | No. 8 | Pages: 12123–12129 10.11609/jo.3644.10.8.12123-12129 Threatened Taxa