Doronicum was until now a western Himalayan genus in the Indian record. Finding one of its members at over 4,000 metres in Tawang shifts the known eastern limit of the genus in India by the width of the country and adds to a growing list of high-altitude discoveries from Arunachal Pradesh, a state that sits at the meeting point of two of the world's biodiversity hotspots. The find also illustrates a practical point about Indian botany: the alpine belt of the eastern Himalaya is among the least surveyed parts of the country, so what is described as a 'new species' is often a plant that has simply never had a botanist standing in front of it in flower. Species known from a single locality are, by definition, the ones most exposed to habitat change, which is why a first description is usually also the first argument for conservation.