Sonerila nairii (Melastomataceae) – a new species from the southern Western Ghats, India

By

Murugan, Soumya
Nair, Maya C.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

62

Pages

15-23

Subjects

critically endangered , India , Kerala , Nelliampathy , Palakkad , Sonerila , Western Ghats

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.62.7623

 

Abstract

The new species Sonerila nairii (Melastomataceae) is here described from Pothumala of the Nelliampathy hill ranges of Western Ghats of Kerala, India. Morphologically it most closely resembles Sonerila erecta and Sonerila pulneyensis from which differs by the form of the stem, leaves, peduncle, pedicel, inflorescence, pubescence of the stem, leaves and hypanthium, and by the form of stamens and stigma.