Volume 24, Issue 74, July - December, 2023

Lagenandra kunkichirimuseumensis (Araceae), a new species from south Western Ghats, India

Jose Mathew^1,3♦, Pichan Mohammed Salim², Kalpanamol Karunakaran¹

¹Department of Botany, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha, Kerala, India
²MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Puthurvayal, Kalpetta, Wayanad, India
³Research Department of Botany, University of Kerala, Karyavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Botany, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha, Kerala, India and Research Department of Botany, University of Kerala, Karyavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

ABSTRACT

Lagenandra kunkichirimuseumensis, a new species of Lagenandra from the Wayanad District of Kerala is described. The new species can be differentiated from all other described Lagenandra species by the absence of tail of the spathe limb and spadix appendix. Detailed morphological characters, notes on habitat, key to the genus Lagenandra of Western Ghats and color photographs are provided to facilitate easy identification in the field.

Keywords: Kerala, new species; south Western Ghats, Taxonomy, aquatic plants, Araceae

Species, 2023, 24(74), e59s1564

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v24i74.e59s1564

Published: 05 July 2023