1. Botanical name		Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth.
2. Synonym(s)
3. Family		Scrophulariaceae
4. Taxonomic status		Species
5. Vernacular names		Kutki (Sanskrit); Kuru (Hindi)
6. Habit		Perrenial herb with fleshy root
7. Habitat		Alpine region, Well drained rocky slopes
8. Original global distribution		Himalayan region from Pakistan to Temperate Asia
9. Current regional distribution	Ar. Pradesh	Tawang and West Kameng Dt..
	Assam	Not recorded
	Meghalaya	Not recorded
	Sikkim	North and West Sikkim
10. Elevation range (m)		3,000 – 5,000
11. Population Reduction – PR	States \ Class	< 30%		30 to 49%		50 to < 80%			³ 80%
	Ar. Pradesh			-		ü
	Assam			-		-
	Meghalaya			-		-
	Sikkim			ü		-
	Data quality	2 & 4 (Local trade market)
11 a. Time/Rate (years/generations)		10 years
12. Extent of Occurrence – EOO		> 20,000 Km^2
13. Area of Occupancy – AOO		> 2,000 Km^2
14. No. of locations / sub-populations		Ar. Pradesh	Assam				Meghalaya	Sikkim
		5(Scattered)	-				-	2(Scattered)
14 a. Data quality		2 & 4
15. Threats		Hm=, Harvest for medicine, Tp= Traded for parts; L= Loss of habitat, Ov= Over exploitation.
16. Trade	Name(s)	Khongling – Monpa (Tribes)
	Level(s)	Local ü			Regional ü		National ü	Global ü
	Parts traded	Roots
	Impact on population	Declining
	Data quality	2 & 4 (Raw drug market)
17. Other comments		§ Roots used for Fever & tonic, Rheumatic pain. § CAMP participants confirmed this taxon to be correctly identified, without any confusion with Neopicrorrhizha scrophularifolia of Nepal CAMP, 2001.
18. Recent field studies		SFRI – WWF report , 1994 (Dichu, Mouling)
19. Status		Ar. Pradesh			Assam		Meghalaya	Sikkim
- CITES		Appendix II
- Legislation		Negative list of exports
- Criteria based on		A 2 c, d						A 2 c, d
- IUCN		EN						VU
20. % of global presence		5 – 10 %						< 5%
21. Existing Conservation measures		Not specific for this species
22. Is the presence of taxon continuous with neighboring areas ?		Yes
23. Are the outside populations also under similar threats / pressures ?		Yes
24. Recommendations a) Research / Management i) in situ ii) ex situ b) Cultivation c) Level of difficulty in propagation / cultivation		Alpine zone in Tawang Dt.. 1 (Least difficult)
25. Existing cultivation -		Forest Dept. in Norh Sikkim
26. Previous assessment		EN in H. P, J&K (Kulu CAMP)
27. Data sources (including literature)		§ Flowers of the Himalaya § Indian Red Data Book
28. Compilers		A.A. Mao (Facilitator), T.T.C. Marak, Ameenba Yaden, Padmeshwar Gogoi, Anupam Sarmah (Recorder), Chandra Barooah, Ayesha Ahmed, N.S. Jameer, Kenneth M. Pala.
29. Reviewers		R. R. Rao (Facilitator), K. Haridasan, A.N. Rao, R.C. Sundriyal, P. Gajurel, Mridul Goswami, R. Vijaya Sankar (Recorder), R.S. Pathak, G.A. Kinhal.