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Type: Article
Published: 2021-03-12
Page range: 197–202
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Litsea manilaliana (Lauraceae): a new species from southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India

Department of Botany, Bishop Abraham Memorial College, Thuruthicad, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India, 689 597
P.G, Department of Botany & Research Centre, Sree Krishna College, Ariyannur P.O., Guruvayur, Thrissur, Kerala, India˗680 102.
Asia Laureae Novelty South India Wagamon Magnoliids

Abstract

A new species in the Lauraceae, Litsea manilaliana Robi & Udayan, is described and illustrated from the Wagamon hills in India. The new species is similar to L. gorayana, from which it differs by its densely lenticellate branchlets, its elliptic leaves with cuneate base, obtuse apex and pale-glaucous undersurface, its adaxially flat midrib, its 5–7 pairs of lateral veins with abaxially prominent, scalariform-reticulate intercostae, its brachyblasts with 4–8 umbels, its umbels with 4 fragrant flowers, its ovate-oblong or oblong, gland-dotted, glabrous tepals, its slightly curved style, its globose ovary, its obovoid fruits with beaked apex and its glabrous fruiting pedicel.