“…Intensive field exploration has been carried out across India during 2021-2023, especially in type localities to collect Lepidagathis species based on data taken from specimens housed in various herbaria and the published literature (Nees von Esenbeck, 1832, 1841, 1847Dalzell, 1850Dalzell, , 1851Anderson, 1867;Clarke, 1885;Cooke, 1905;Gamble, 1924) including the protologues of recently described species (Madhusoodanan & Singh, 1992;Remadevi & Binojkumar, 2008;Jithin & Jose, 2017;Natekar et al, 2019;Biju et al, 2020;Borude et al, 2020;Chandore et al, 2020;Prasad & Reddy, 2020;Dhatchanamoorthy et al, 2022;More et al, 2022More et al, , 2023Brahmadande & Nandikar, 2023;Gnanasekaran et al, 2023b). Detailed descriptions documenting the complete range of morphological variation for all species under consideration (L. decumbens Dhatchan.…”