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Volume 50, Issue 1-4, September 2008

Articles

Notes on Begonia burkillii Dunn and its Rediscovery from Arunachal Pradesh, India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v50/2008/58232

Published 2008-12-07

  • Amad Uddin
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  • S. Phukan
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  • S. K. Borthakur

Amad Uddin
Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Circle, Shillong 793 003

S. Phukan
Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Circle, Shillong 793 003

S. K. Borthakur
Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati

Abstract

Begonia burkillii Dunn (Begoniaceae) is recollected from Namdapha Biosphere Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India, near its type locality after a gap of 96 years. Critical taxonomic investigations and illustrations of the species along with notes on the sect. Sphenanthera with an artificial key to the species recorded from India are provided.
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