Abstract
Ischaemum sunilii, a new grass species from Nelliyampathy hills of southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India, is described and illustrated. The new species is allied to I. rangacharianum, but differs in many attributes. Description of the new species with distribution, ecology and comparison with its allied taxa are provided.
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Gorade, P., Datar, M.N., Choudhary, R.K. & Pathare, P.S. (2016) Ischaemum agharkarii (Andropogoneae, Poaceae), a new species from Northern Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 272 (1): 89–93. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.272.1.6
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Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989) Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae. BSI, Calcutta. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1051.1998.tb01868.x
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Lakshminarasimhan, P. (1996) Poaceae. In: BD Sharma, S. Karthikeyan, NP Singh, Flora of Maharashtra State, Monocotyledones. Flora of India, Ser. 2. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 513–532.
Link, H.F. (1827) Hortus Regius Botanicus Berolinensis descriptus, ab Henrico Friderico Link. Berolini,Apud G. Reimer, 384 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13688
Linnaeus, C. (1753) Species Plantarum, Vol. II. Holmiae: Impensis Laurentii, 639 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.669
Mabberley, D.J. (2008) Mabberley’s Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, Their Classification and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 1021 pp. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335581
Miquel, F.A.W. (1851) Nieuwe Verh. Eerste Kl. Kon. Ned. Inst. Wetensch. Amsterdam. Series 3 (4).
Miquel, F.A.W. (1852) Analecta botanica indica: commentationes de variis stirpibus Asiae australioris. Amsterdam, Sulpke. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.67331
Nayar, T.S., Rasiya Beegam, A., Mohanan, N. & Rajkumar, G. (2006) Flowering Plants of Kerala. Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, India, 1079 pp.
POWO (2021) Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Available from: http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/ (accessed 4 June 2021)
Sasidharan, N. (2011) Flowering plants of Kerala: CD-ROM ver 2.0. Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Kerala.
Sreekumar, P.V. & Nair, V.J. (1991) Flora of Kerala – Grasses. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta. 470 pp.
Srivastava, S.K. & Nair, V.J. (2010) Genus Ischaemum L. (Poaceae) In India. Nelumbo 52: 63–92.
Sunil, C.N., Madhanan, V.N., Krishnan, C.R., Kumar, V.N., Simi, M.S. & Jyothi, K.J. (2017) A new species of Ischaemum L. (Poaceae) from Kerala, India. Bangladesh Journal of Plant taxonomy 24 (1): 33–38. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v24i1.33003
Sur, P.R. (2001) A revision of the genus Ischaemum L. (Poaceae) in India. Journal of economic and taxonomic Botany 25 (2): 407–438.
Vajravelu, E. (1990) Flora of Palghat District. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, 646 pp.
Wight, R. & Arnott, G.A.W. (1834) Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: containing abridged descriptions of the plants found in the peninsula of British India, arranged according to the natural system: Vol. 1. London: Parbury, Allen & Co., 480 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.252