Abstract
Miliusa agasthyamalana (Annonaceae), a new species from the Western Ghats, India is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically similar to M.paithalmalayana and M. wightiana. Detailed notes on the species along with its color photographs and illustrations are provided.
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Hooker, J.D. & Thomson, T. (1855) Annonaceae. In: Flora Indica: being a systematic account of the plants of British India. Pamplin, London, pp. 87–153. [285 pp.]
IUCN (2020) Guidelines for using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 11.Prepared by the standards and petitions subcommittee. Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/documents/RedListGuidelines.pdf (accessed 12 January 2020).
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King, G. (1891) The species of Myristica of British India. Annals of Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta 3: 1–327
Mabberley, D. (2017) Mabberley’s Plant-Book. A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses. Ed. (4). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1102 pp. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335581
Mitra, D. (1993) Annonaceae. In: Sharma, B.D., Balakrishnan, N.P., Rao, R.R. & Hajra, P.K. (Eds.) Flora of India, vol. 1. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 202–307.
Mols, J.B. & Kessler, P.J.A. (2003) The genus Miliusa(Annonaceae) in the Austro-Malesian area. Blumea 48: 421–462. https://doi.org/10.3767/000651903X489384
Narayanan, M.K.R., Sujanapal, P., Anilkumar, N., Sivadasan, M., Alfarhan, A.H. & Thomas, J. (2012) Miliusagokhalaei, a new species of Annonaceae from India with notes on interrelationships, population structure and conservation status. Phytotaxa 42 (1): 26–34. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.42.1.4
Murugan, C. (2016)Miliusa manickamiana C. Murugan sp. nov. (Annonaceae), a new species from the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India. Indian Journal of Forestry 39 (4): 371–372. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2016-6G5SYW
Page, N.V., Poti, M. & Ravikumar, K. (2016) Miliusa flaviviridis (Annonaceae), a new species from the southern Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 255 (2): 167–171. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.255.2.6
Page, N.V. &Nerlekar, A.N. (2016) A new species of Miliusa (Annonaceae) from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. Phytotaxa 245 (1): 79–83. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.245.1.10
Pandurangan, G. (2016) Miliusa sahyadrica, a new species of Annonaceae from the Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 284 (3): 211–217. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.284.3.6
Pierre, J.B.L. (1881) Flore forestieÌre de la Cochinchine, Octave Doin, Paris, 406 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.61558
Thiers, B. (2020) Index Herbariorum: A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/ (accessed 30 June 2022)
Turner, I.M. (2015) A conspectus of Indo-Burmese Annonaceae.Nordic Journal of Botany 33: 257–299. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.00689
Van Heusden, E.C.H. (1992) Flowers of Annonaceae: morphology, classification and evolution. Blumea (7): 1–21.