Abstract
A new species Anemone pindariensis discovered from the valley near Pindari Glacier of Western Himalaya, India is described and illustrated. This new species is closely related to A. rivularis, but differs from the latter in the sepal and stamen characters. A. pindariensis has densely hairy (vs. glabrous in A. rivularis), rounded to elliptic to oblong (vs. ovate to obovate), 4–5 (vs. 5–8) sepals, greenish-yellow sepals (vs. white-blue sepals of A. rivularis), circinnately arranged staminodes around the stamens (vs. absence of staminodes), densely hairy filaments (vs. glabrous) and oblong (vs. ellipsoid or ovoid) anthers.
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<p>Rau, M.A. (1993) Ranunculaceae. <em>In</em>: Sharma, B.D., Balakrishnan, N.P., Rao, R.R. & Hajra, P.K. (Eds.) <em>Flora of India</em>. Vol.1<em>. </em>Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 26–32.</p>
<p>Royle, J.F. (1839) <em>Roscoea alpina, Orchideae, Flora of Cashmere, Vol. I. Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan mountains</em>. Wm, H. Allen and Co., Leaden hall Street, 361 pp.</p>
<p>Santapau, H. & Henry, A.N. (1973) <em>A dictionary of flowering plants in India</em>. Publications & Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi.</p>
<p>Sharma, B.D., Balakrishnan, N.P., Rao, R.R. & Hajra, P.K. (1993) <em>Anemone</em> L. <em>Flora of India</em>, Vol. I. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 27–41.</p>
<p>Singh, J.B. & Kachroo, P. (1994) <em>Forest Flora of Pir Panjal Range (Northwestern Himalaya)</em>. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun, India, 136 pp.</p>
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<p>Ziman, S.N., Ehrendorfer, F., Keener, C.S., Wang, W.T., Mosyakin, S.L., Bulakh, E.V. & Kadota, Y. (2007) Revision of <em>Anemone </em>sect. <em>Himalayicae</em> (Ranunculaceae) with three new series. <em>Edinburgh Journal of Botany</em> 64 (1): 51–99. https://doi.org/10.1017/S096042860700076547</p>