Eriocaulon madayiparense (Eriocaulaceae) – A new species from the foot hills of the Western Ghats of India

By

Swapna, M.M.
Rajesh, K. P.
Manju, C.N.
Prakashkumar, R.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

10

Pages

19-23

Subjects

Eriocaulaceae , Eriocaulon madayiparense , India , Laterite hill , Madayipara , Western Ghats

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.10.2297

 

Abstract

Eriocaulon madayiparense Swapna, Rajesh, Manju & Prakashkumar, sp. nov. is described and illustrated from the Madayipara, a lateritic hillock in the midland of Kannur District of Kerala. The species is allied to E. eurypeplon Koernicke, in its two free male and female sepals, female sepals being keeled and acute and not exceeding the floral bracts, acuminate leaf apex and setiform seed appendages appearing in vertical rows, but differs mainly inyellow seeds with solitary appendage arising from transverse radial walls, curved and connate with the adjacent ones of the same vertical row forming longitudinal parallel ribs on the surface of the seeds.