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Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-04
Page range: 118–122
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Amorphophallus shyamsalilianum, a New Species (Araceae) from Bhandara District, Maharashtra State, India

Department of Botany, S. N. Mor College of Arts, Commerce & Smt. G. D. Saraf Science College, Tumsar (M.S.), India-441 912 Department of Botany, Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi Nagpur-440 010 P.G.T. Department of Botany, University Campus, RTM University, Nagpur-440 033
Department of Botany, Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi Nagpur-440 010 P.G.T. Department of Botany, University Campus, RTM University, Nagpur-440 033
Department of Botany, Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi Nagpur-440 010 P.G.T. Department of Botany, University Campus, RTM University, Nagpur-440 033
Amorphophallus Araceae new species Bhandara district Monocots

Abstract

Amorphophallus shyamsalilianum is described as a new species from Bhandara district (MS), India. It differs from Amorphophallus konkanensis and A. bhandarensis by the size and shape of its tubers with long offsets, by the lengths of pedicel and peduncle as well as by the reproductive structures which also vary by the arrangement of pistillate flowers; sterile flowers; male flowers; protruding spadix-appendix and seed shape. The plant grows on bunds of paddy field and was collected from three different sites within Bhandara district.