Abstract
A new species of Asclepiadaceae, Gymnema kollimalayanum A. Ramachandran & M.B.Viswan., sp. nov. is described here from the Kollihills in the Eastern Ghats of Peninsular India. Th is species is allied to G. hirsutum Wight & Arn. by habit, woody stems, milky latex, umbellate cymose infl orescence, 5-merous fl owers, calyx, corolla, anthers, follicles and comose seeds but diff ers by size and shape of leaves being elliptic or elliptic-rotund, subtruncate at base, abruptly acute at apex, longer petioles, arrangement of fl owers, longer pedicels, shape and size of calyx, corolla, larger size of follicles, seeds and coma.
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