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Issue: Vol. 668 No. 2: 15 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-15
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.668.2.7
Page range: 186-194
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Senegalia ajaya (Mimosoid clade, Caesalpinioideae, Fabaceae), a new species from Birbhum District, West Bengal, India

Department of Botany, Suri Vidyasagar College, Suri-731101, Birbhum, West Bengal, India. Department of Botany, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan-731235, Birbhum, West Bengal, India.
Department of Botany, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan-731235, Birbhum, West Bengal, India.
Caesia species group Indian flora Leguminosae sect. Monacanthea p.p. sp. nov. Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of Senegalia, S. ajaya (Mimosoid clade, Caesalpinioideae, Fabaceae) is described and illustrated from Birbhum district of West Bengal, India. This species is closely related to Senegalia caesia but can be distinguished from S. caesia by its distinctive characters such as: climbing shrub habit; internode bearing 6-lines of prickles; tendrils on the branches; rachilla prickles on the underside; two types of paraphyllidia at pinnae bases; asymmetrically rounded leaflet base; mid vein extended straight to the apiculate apex.

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