The species Didymocarpus janakiae was discovered by Rhuthuparna S.B. and V. Gowda of the Tropical Ecology and Evolution Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research(IISER), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh during field surveys conducted in northeast India, including Arunachal Pradesh, from July to September 2023 which is the flowering season for the Indian Didymocarpus.