A new species of Sonerila (Melastomataceae: Sonerileae) from southern Western Ghats, India

Resmi, S.; Manudev, K.M.; Pramod, C.; Nampy, Santhosh

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.7

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“…Sonerila Roxb. is an Old World genus of the family Melastomataceae (tribe Sonerileae) comprising around 180 taxa and distributed in the Indo-Pacific regions (Cellinese, 1997;Resmi et al, 2018). It is the largest genus of the tribe Sonerileae in India with about 62 species having a sizeable percentage (83 %) of endemism.…”

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Sonerila konkanensis (Melastomataceae), a new species from South Goa, India

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A new tuberous species of Sonerila Roxb. (Melastomataceae, Sonerileae) from Chandreshwar hills, South Goa is described in the course of a taxonomic revision of the genus in India. Sonerila konkanensis Resmi & Nampy is similar to Sonerila talbotii G.S. Giri & M.P. Nayar and Sonerila sreenarayaniana Sunil et al. but differs in several characters that are detailed in the morphological discussion presented herein. The status of the new taxon is assessed as "Vulnerable" according to IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. We also provide explanatory images of living plants as well as SEM images of pollen grains and seeds and information concerning the habitat.

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