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Issue: Vol. 571 No. 1: 1 November 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-11-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.571.1.7
Page range: 85-90
Abstract views: 27
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A New Species of Ceropegia L. (Apocynaceae) from Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India

Govt. Degree College, Bhikiyasain-263667, Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Uttarakhand, India
Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun-248001, Uttarakhand, India
Himalayan Forest Research Institute- MoEFCC, Shimla-171013, Himachal Pradesh, India
Cropegia kumaonensis Kumaon Western Himalaya Uttarakhand new species Eudicots

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.

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