Bromus husainii (Poaceae:Bromeae), a new species from Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttarakhand, India

Abstract

Bromus husainii, a new species of Poaceae collected from Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttarakhand, is described and illustrated. The new species is closely related to B. confinis in having similar rhizomatous habit and purple-tinged spikelets but differs by the characters of inflorescence with heteromorphic spikelets and a band of hairs present on its collar. Moreover, presence of robust spikelets make it different from other species of Bromus.

Bromus kashmirensis (Poaceae), a new species from Kashmir Himalaya, India

“…It is mainly distributed in the subtropical to alpine regions of the Indian Himalayas, occurring at an elevation range from 1500 to 4000 m a.s.l. (Yadav et al 2021). In Kashmir Himalaya, the diversity of Bromus and Stewart (1972) reported nine species, i.e.…”

“…In the last twenty years more than five species have been described from different regions of the world i.e. Europe, Iberian Peninsula, Peru and South‐East and Western Asia (Spalton 2001, Saarela et al 2006, Scholz 2008, Naderi et al 2014, Acedo and Llamas 2019, Behçet and Yapar 2021, Yadav et al 2021). Although many comprehensive taxonomic studies have recently been focused on the genus Bromus the infrageneric classification of the genus has been treated differently by different workers (Acedo and Llamas 2001, Pavlick et al 2003, Liang et al 2006, Saarela et al 2014, Naderi and Rahiminejad 2015) hindering their precise application.…”

“…At present, 21 species of Bromus are known from India (Kellogg et al 2020), including the recently described species B. husainii P.Agnihotri & R.Yadav (Yadav et al 2021). It is mainly distributed in the subtropical to alpine regions of the Indian Himalayas, occurring at an elevation range from 1500 to 4000 m a.s.l.…”

“…The first revisionary treatment of the Southwest Asian Bromus species was done by Bor (1970), who included the species occurring in Iran and its neighbouring countries and recognized six sections in the genus Bromus: Bromus, Ceratochloa, Genea, Neversuskiella, Neobromus and Pnigma. Thereafter, Naderi and Rahiminejad (2015) At present, 21 species of Bromus are known from India (Kellogg et al 2020), including the recently described species B. husainii P.Agnihotri & R.Yadav (Yadav et al 2021). It is mainly distributed in the subtropical to alpine regions of the Indian Himalayas, occurring at an elevation range from 1500 to 4000 m a.s.l.…”

“…It is mainly distributed in the subtropical to alpine regions of the Indian Himalayas, occurring at an elevation range from 1500 to 4000 m a.s.l. (Yadav et al 2021) family Poaceae from western Himalaya, we collected specimens of Bromus from three localities i.e. Drang, Babareshi and Gulmarg in Baramulla district of Kashmir Himalaya.…”