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Volume 62, Issue 2, December 2020

Articles

Strobilanthes lakshminarasimhanii (Acanthaceae): A New Species from Kodagu, Karnataka

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v62/2020/153884

Published 2020-12-31

  • Sameer Patil

Sameer Patil
Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, 192 Kaulagarh, Dehradun – 248195, Uttarakhand

Abstract

Strobilanthes lakshminarasimhanii, a new species from the shola forests of Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary in Western Ghats is described here, along with a illustration and photo plate. The new species is also compared with its allied species S. pulneyensis.

Keywords

Coorg, Endemic, India, Karnataka, New Species, Strobilanthes, Western Ghats.

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Sameer Patil

Botanical Survey of India.

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