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Volume 64, Issue 2, December 2022

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Notes on the correct identity of Phalaenopsis arunachalensis (Orchidaceae)

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v64/2022/172161

Published 2022-12-31

  • Sanchayita Sengupta
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  • Dinesh Kumar Agrawala
    • ,
  • Avishek Bhattacharjee
    • ,
  • Chaya Deori
    • ,
  • Debabrata Maity
    • ,
  • Suptotthita Choudhury

Sanchayita Sengupta
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah-711103, West Bengal

Dinesh Kumar Agrawala
Botanical Survey of India, CGO Complex, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700064, West Bengal

Avishek Bhattacharjee
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah-711103, West Bengal

Chaya Deori
Botanical Survey of India

Debabrata Maity
Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road-700019, West Bengal

Suptotthita Choudhury
Department of Botany, Gurudas College, Kolkata 700054

Abstract

The recently described species Phalaenopsis arunachalensis K. Gogoi & K. Rinya has been reduced to synonymy under Phalaenopsis braceana (Hook.f.) Christenson. The authors of P. arunachalensis have compared the taxon with the morphologically similar Phalaenopsis taenialis (Lindl.) Christenson & Pradhan but have not taken into account P. braceana to which the taxon is alike. The affinities of P. braceana and P. taenialis have been discussed.

Keywords

Epiphyte, Heterotypic synonym, Morphology, Phalaenopsis braceana

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