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Volume 65, Issue 2, December 2023

Articles

Taxonomic revision of the genus Muhlenbergia Schreb. (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) in India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v65/2023/172949

Published 2023-12-01

  • Arumugam S.
    • ,
  • G. V. S. Murthy
    • ,
  • V. J. Nair

Arumugam S.
Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, TNAU Campus, Coimbatore – 641002, Tamil Nadu

G. V. S. Murthy
Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, TNAU Campus, Coimbatore – 641002, Tamil Nadu

V. J. Nair
Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, TNAU Campus, Coimbatore – 641002, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

The taxonomic revision of Muhlenbergia in India recognized 6 species including the newly described species Muhlenbergia rakhchamensis and M. myanmarensis. The present revision provides detailed information on the morphology, taxonomy, nomenclature, phenology, and distribution of each species along with illustrations and a key to all the species.

Keywords

Grasses, Endemic, Systematics, Sporobolinae, Tribe Eragrostideae.

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