NYMPHOIDES BALAKRISHNANII SP. NOV. (MENYANTHACEAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM THE LATERITIC PLATEAU OF SOUTHERN WESTERN GHATS, INDIA.

Jomy Augustine,Josekutty E.J.,MuhammedHaneef K.A,Biju P.

doi:10.21474/ijar01/945

Abstract

27Jul 2016 NYMPHOIDES BALAKRISHNANII SP. NOV. (MENYANTHACEAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM THE LATERITIC PLATEAU OF SOUTHERN WESTERN GHATS, INDIA. Biju P. , Josekutty E. J. , Muhammed Haneef K. A and Jomy Augustine. Department of Botany, Government College, Kasaragod, Vidyanagar P.O., Kasaragod – 671123, Kerala, India. Department of Botany, Government Brennan College Thalassery, Dharmadam P.O., Kannur – 670106, Kerala, India. Department of Applied Botany, Mangalore University, Konaje P.O., Mangalore – 574199, Karnataka, India. Department of Botany, St. Thomas College, Pala, Arunapuram P.O, Pala – 686574, Kerala, India.

Highlights

A new species Nymphoides balakrishnanii, collected from seasonal pond in the Southern Western ghats, India is described and illustrated
The new species is related to the Nymphoides parvifolia in the habit, tetramerous flowers and tuberculate seeds but differs in broad wings and long hairs on the petals, oblique and introrse anthers, included stigma, bearded hypogynous glands and larger fruiting calyx
Flowers in fascicles of [4‒10] at the junction of petiole and branches, opening centripetally, bisexual, 9‒12 mm across, tetramerous, pedicellate; pedicels [3‒9] mm long, greenish, glabrous; bracts membranous triangular; calyx lobes 4, basally fused, linear-lanceolate, green, margins hyaline, 3‒3.5 × 09‒1.2 mm; corolla white, rotate, corolla tube 2‒2.2 mm long, throat yellow, corolla lobes 4; lobes 4‒5.5 × 1.2‒ 1.5 mm, distinctly winged; wings 0.5‒0.75 mm, involute, margins with long whip like glandular hairs; hairs up to 1.4 mm, papillate, corolla lobes dorsally covered by long multicellular glandular hairs, ventral side covered by short unicellular glandular hairs

Summary

Introduction

A new species Nymphoides balakrishnanii, collected from seasonal pond in the Southern Western ghats, India is described and illustrated. 1. Department of Botany, Government College, Kasaragod, Vidyanagar P.O., Kasaragod – 671123, Kerala, India. 2. Department of Botany, Government Brennan College Thalassery, Dharmadam P.O., Kannur – 670106, Kerala, India.

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