A new variety of Gymnosporia emarginata (Celastraceae) from the Coromandel Coast of Peninsular India

P Umamaheswari; Natesan  Balachandran; V Kumaresan; K Yuvarani

doi:10.14719/pst.2255

Authors

P Umamaheswari Ecology Department, French Institute of Pondicherry, Puducherry – 605 001, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5021-8292
Natesan Balachandran Ecology Department, French Institute of Pondicherry, Puducherry – 605 001, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6396-3865
V Kumaresan Department of Botany, Kanchi Mamunivar Government Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Puducherry – 605008, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9165-8809
K Yuvarani Department of Botany, Kanchi Mamunivar Government Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Puducherry – 605008, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-9728

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2255

Keywords:

Dry evergreen forest, Maytenus, Pondicherry, Scrub vegetation, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

A new variety, Gymnosporia emarginata (Willd.) Thwaites var. coromandelica N.Balach. & P. Umamaheswari (Celastraceae) has been described from Tamil Nadu, India. The diagnostic characters of this variety are: long stamens, ovary immersed in the disc, style sessile and stigma lobes converged. Detailed descriptions, differences in characters between the 2 varieties, ITS based phylogenetic analysis and related images are provided for easy identification.

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