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A New Species of Ceropegia L. (Apocynaceae) from Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: A new species of Ceropegia: C. kumaonensis Kamal Kishor, G.S. Rawat & S.S. Samant from Western Himalaya, Kumaon region of Almora District, Uttarakhand, India is described and illustrated. This newly described species differs from its allied taxa C. attenuatula and C. parvissima in having fascicled cymes with multiple drooping flowers per node, flowers without tube, long corolla lobes and having regularly toothed corona.

Source: Phytotaxa

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.571.1.7

Authors: KAMAL KISHOR, GOPAL S. RAWAT, SHER S. SAMANT

Institutions: Department of Higher Education, Uttarakhand Government, Wildlife Institute of India

Language: English

Topic: Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions

Subfield: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4307802452

FWCI: 0.224

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