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Volume 63, Issue 1, July 2021

Articles

On the Identity of Mucuna yadaviana (Fabaceae)

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v63/2021/158463

Published 2021-07-31

  • Anant Kumar
    • ,
  • Vinay Ranjan

Anant Kumar
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah -711103

Vinay Ranjan
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah -711103

Abstract

On the basis of critical study of type specimens and protologues, Mucuna yadaviana has been synonymized here under Mucuna imbricata.

Keywords

Mucuna yadaviana, Mucuna imbricata, protologue, syn. nov.

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