A new herb species Peliosanthes maheswariana found in the West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh by Dipankar Borah, Momang Taram and Noriyuki Tanaka has been named after Dipankar’s father, Maheswar Borah. The discovery is now published after a year of revisions in Adansonia, published by the Museum Science Press, Paris.

Maheswar Borah retired as a head clerk from Monabari Tea Estate in Assam, the largest tea estate in Asia.