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Issue: Vol. 416 No. 1: 9 September 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-09-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.416.1.9
Page range: 73–78
Abstract views: 62
PDF downloaded: 1

Eriocaulon rayatianum, a new species of Eriocaulaceae from the Konkan region of Maharashtra, India

Department of Botany, Abasaheb Marathe Arts and New Commerce, Science College, Rajapur- 416 702. District- Ratnagiri. Maharashtra, India. † Also affiliated to University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India.
Department of Botany, Abasaheb Marathe Arts and New Commerce, Science College, Rajapur- 416 702. District- Ratnagiri. Maharashtra, India. † Also affiliated to University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India.
Department of Botany, Abasaheb Marathe Arts and New Commerce, Science College, Rajapur- 416 702. District- Ratnagiri. Maharashtra, India. † Also affiliated to University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India.
Department of Botany, Abasaheb Marathe Arts and New Commerce, Science College, Rajapur- 416 702. District- Ratnagiri. Maharashtra, India. † Also affiliated to University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India.
Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur-416 004. Maharashtra, India.
Eriocaulon low altitude lateritic plateaus endemism taxonomy Monocots

Abstract

A new species, Eriocaulon rayatianum Chandore, Borude & S.R. Yadav, is described and illustrated from the Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. The new species is allied with E. cuspidatum Dalzell, but differs in having obovate involucral bracts, obovate to oblanceolate floral bracts, sessile male flowers and sepals and petals densely hoary in male and female flowers.