An overview on the validation of the name Andrographis longipedunculata (Acanthaceae)

GUNADAYALAN GNANASEKARAN; WILSON ARISDASON; YUNFEI DENG

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.433.1.8

Issue: Vol. 433 No. 1: 13 February 2020

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2020-02-13

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.433.1.8

Page range: 75–76

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**An overview on the validation of the name Andrographis longipedunculata (Acanthaceae)**

GUNADAYALAN GNANASEKARAN⁺⁻
WILSON ARISDASON⁺⁻
YUNFEI DENG⁺⁻

Department of Botany, Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Tambaram East, Chennai – 600059, Tamil Nadu, India.

Botanical Survey of India (BSI), Southern Regional Centre (SRC), TNAU Campus, Lawley Road, Coimbatore – 641003, Tamil Nadu, India.

Key Laboratory of Plant Resource and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.

Andrographis New combination Validation Acanthaceae Eudicots

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Abstract

Neesiella Sreemadhavan (1967: 270) was established by Sreemadhavan (1967) as a new genus to accommodate 4-seeded species those were previously placed in the genus Andrographis Wall. ex Nees (1832: 116), namely N. echioides (L.) Sreemadhavan (1967: 271), originally published as Justicia echioides Linnaeus (1753: 16), and a new species N. longipedunculata Sreemadhavan (1967: 271). Later, Sreemadhavan (1968) found that Neesiella is a later homonym of a bryophyte genus Neesiella Schiffner (1893: 32) and therefore proposed a substitute name, Indoneesiella Sreemadhavan (1968: 466).