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Type: Article
Published: 2021-05-17
Page range: 285–293
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Euphorbia sahyadrica (Euphorbiaceae), a new species of succulent shrub from the wet zone of the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India

Department of Botany, S. S. G. M. College, Kopargaon-423601, District Ahmednagar, MS, India
Department of Botany, S. S. G. M. College, Kopargaon-423601, District Ahmednagar, MS, India
Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune-411007, MS, India
Independent Researcher, AHM Trust, B. Dharmathupatti-625582, Theni Dt., TN, India
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BRUCE E. DE JONG

Independent Researcher
Eudicots Endemism eudicots Euphorbioideae Sahyadris taxonomy

Abstract

Euphorbia sahyadrica (Euphorbiaceae), a new succulent species belonging to Euphorbia subg. Euphorbia sect. Euphorbia is described and illustrated from the Raigad district of Maharashtra, India. It is related to E. nivulia but differs in its shrub-like habit, bark with closely-packed horizontal branch scars, elliptical-shaped leaf with short petiole and easily visible lateral veins, protruding tubercles with two pairs of spines per spine shield, bisexual cyathia in the central sessile position on the cyme, and capsules that have laterally tapering cocci without bulging suture lines between the cocci.