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Issue: Vol. 644 No. 1: 9 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.644.1.11
Page range: 74-78
Abstract views: 46
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A new species of Peucedanum (Apiaceae: Apioideae) from south India

Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR), Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Malappuram–676 503, Kerala, India (#Present address: PDSH Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, PIN 226001, Uttar Pradesh)
Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR), Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Malappuram–676 503, Kerala, India, Post Graduate and Research Department of Botany, Govt. Victoria College, University of Calicut, Palakkad, Kerala, PIN 678001, India
KSCSTE-Malabar Botanical Garden & Institute for Plant Sciences, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, PIN 673 014
Post Graduate and Research Department of Botany, Govt. Victoria College, University of Calicut, Palakkad, Kerala, PIN 678001, India
Post Graduate and Research Department of Botany, Govt. Victoria College, University of Calicut, Palakkad, Kerala, PIN 678001, India, Govt. Arts and Science College, University of Calicut, Tholanur, Palakkad, Kerala, India PIN 678722
Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR), Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Malappuram–676 503, Kerala, India
Eudicots Minnampara hills Nelliyampathy Western Ghats Umbelliferae

Abstract

Peucedanum vasudevanii K.M.P.Kumar, Rampradeep, Hareesh, Jabeena & Maya, a new species in the family Apiaceae is described from Minnampara hills of Nelliyampathy forest, Palakkad district, Kerala, India. The species shows morphological similarities with P. pradeepianum but is distinct in many attributes such as hirtellous stem, lanceolate basal leaflets, oblong purple involucre bracts, subequal hirtellous rays, purple anthers, larger mericarp and six commissural vittae.

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