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Type: Article
Published: 2014-12-17
Page range: 282–286
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A new species of Chlorophytum (Asparagaceae) from southern Western Ghats of India

Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR), Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Malappuram-676 503, Kerala, India
Department of Botany, Calicut University, Malappuram-673 635, Kerala, India
Department of Botany, Calicut University, Malappuram-673 635, Kerala, India
Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR), Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Malappuram-676 503, Kerala, India
Angiosperm Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur-416 004, Maharashtra, India
Asparagaceae Chlorophytum New species Palakkad southern Western Ghats

Abstract

The genus Chlorophytum Ker Gawler (1808: 1071) is one of the major genera of family Asparagaceae (APG 2009) with about 212 taxa (Kativu &a Nordal 1993, Govaerts et al. 2012). It is distributed in the Old World tropics especially in Africa and India (Mabberley 2005). It is represented by 17 species in India of which 15 occur in the Western Ghats (Malpure & Yadav 2009). Characters like anther filament ratio, anther filaments, number of tepal nerves, pedicel articulation and somatic chromosome number are taxonomically important (Adsul et al. 2014).