Desmostachya pingalaiae sp. nov. from Gujarat, India

Abstract

Desmostachya pingalaiae Raole & R. J. Desai sp. nov. is described from the Navasari district of Gujarat, India. A detailed morphological description and line drawings of the new species are provided. In addition, the new species is compared with D. bipinnata (L.) Stapf.

Editorial

“…The largest country in the region, both in terms of geography and ongoing research is undoubtedly China and naturally enough this is also reflected in the number of published articles (Häkkinen and Wang 2008a,b, Jin et al 2008, 2009a,b, Yi et al 2008, Zhang et al 2008, 2009, Bi et al 2009, 2010,Chen et al 2009a, 2009b, 2010, Dong et al 2009a,b, Jin 2009, Liu et al 2009, Yang et al 2009, Xia and Li 2009, Weng et al 2009, Cong et al 2010, Guo et al 2010, He et al 2010, Xu et al 2010, Wang et al 2010, Wei and Wang 2010). Second largest is India with 11 recent contributions (Banik and Sanjappa 2008, Baruah and Nath 2008, Raole and Desai 2008, Viswanathan and Manikandan 2009, Kandwal and Gupta 2010, Karthigeyan et al 2010a,b, Pusalkar and Singh 2010, Sujanapal and Sasidharan 2010, Tandyekkal and Mohanan 2010, Yadav et al 2010), but we have also published numerous significant contributions to our knowledge of the plant biodiversity of southeastern‐most Asia, i.e. Vietnam (Orel and Wilson 2010, Trân et al 2010, Trân and Leong‐Skorniková 2010, Vu and Xia 2010), Thailand (Ngamriabsakul 2008), the Indonesian–Malesian region (Turner and Saunders 2008, Vermeulen 2008, Tang et al 2010, Turner 2009, 2010,) and Oceania (Wilmot‐Dear and Friis 2010).…”

The evolution of a new scene for botanical publication from the Nordic countries

“…It is therefore most encouraging to see that almost 100 new taxa from throughout the world was published in 2008. Most novelties are vascular plants from Turkey (Aksoy et al 2008, Dogan et al 2008, Dönmez 2008, Eker and Koyuncu 2008, Gemici et al 2008, Ilçim 2008, Ilçim et al 2008, Teksen and Aytaç 2008, Uysal 2008, Yaprak and Yurdakulol 2008, Zielinski and Tomaszewski, 2008), Iran (Hamdi et al 2008, Pakravan 2008, Khosravi and Poormahdi 2008, Ranjbar et al 2008), India (Baruah and Nath 2008, Raole and Desai 2008), China (Cong et al 2008, Gao and Zhang 2008, Häkkinen and Wang 2008, Jiang and Liu 2008, Jin et al 2008, Li and Wang 2008, Lidén and Van De Veire 2008, Qiao and Zhang 2008, Shi et al 2008b, Song et al 2008, Tian et al 2008, Wang et al 2008, Wei et al 2008, Xiang and Peng 2008, Xiang et al 2008, Yi et al 2008, Zhang and Li 2008, Zhang et al 2008a,b,c, Zhou et al 2008a) and south east Asia (Ngamriabsakul 2008, Turner and Saunders 2008), demonstrating the botanical richness and the great need for basic taxonomic research in these regions. For example, in one single paper, Vermeulen (2008) described 38 new species of the orchid genus Bulbophyllum from New Guinea alone.…”