Salacia Vellaniana Udayan, Yohannan &amp; Pradeep (Celastraceae), a New Species from India

Udayan, P. S.; Yohannan, Regy; Devipriya, M. S.; Devipriya, V; Pradeep, A. K.

doi:10.15553/c2013v681a20

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“…The most recent review of the entire genus is an unpublished thesis by Hedin (1999). Recent species description has been confined to South America (Lombardi, 2007(Lombardi, , 2009(Lombardi, , 2010 and India (Udayan et al, 2012(Udayan et al, , 2013. A proportion of about 86% of the Celastraceae flora in Côte d'Ivoire, represented by climbing plants confirmed the character of tropical plant family attributed to Celastraceae (Hallé, 1958(Hallé, , 1962Hutchinson and Dalziel, 1954;Stork, 1991, 1992;Hawthorne and Jongkind, 2006) which is among the vascular plants medium occurring families usually common to African tropical forests understory and canopy.…”

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Distribution and ecological drivers of family celastraceae in Cte Divoire

KouamÃ©¹,

Biagne²,

Etien³

2020

Afr. J. Plant Sci.

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Most studies on drivers of plant diversity and distribution have focused on trees and combine several plant families. Climbers which are part of the particular characteristics of tropical rainforests due to their richness and abundance have been rarely related to ecological factors. This study evaluates the importance of vegetation type and total annual rainfall on the distribution of the Celastraceae plant family which are mostly climbers in Côte d'Ivoire using a herbarium database. A total of 1520 samples, encompassing16 genera, 60 species and 12 varieties of Celastraceae from over 363 localities in Côte d'Ivoire, were extracted from a database on Ivorian flora. Species' occurrences in localities were related to vegetation type and annual rainfall through a principal component analysis. A strong positive correlation (r = 0.81, P < 0.001) was found between the Celastraceae distribution and both the vegetation types and the rainfall. The Coastal evergreen and Western evergreen forests showed higher richness of Celastraceae climbers while the Sub-sudanian and Sudanian Savannas experienced lower richness than other vegetation types in Côte d'Ivoire.

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Distribution and ecological drivers of family celastraceae in Cte Divoire

KouamÃ©¹,

Biagne²,

Etien³

2020

Afr. J. Plant Sci.

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“…kakkayamana showed 100% homology and clustered together. The two are similar in all vegetative and floral characteristics except for the shape, colour and size of flowers (Udayan et al , ). Our DNA barcode analysis do not support the taxonomic recognition of these entities and the specific floral features may possibly be regarded as variation within the species.…”

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Species discrimination through DNA barcoding in the genus Salacia of the Western Ghats in India

Dev

Sathyabhama

Kurian

et al. 2015

Nordic Journal of Botany

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The genus Salacia (Celastraceae) is a source of many important pharmaceutical chemicals used in the Ayurvedic system of medicine in India. Owing to morphological similarities between species, the taxonomy of Salacia is complex and not fully settled. To ensure quality and assured therapeutic effects in the raw drugs from the genus, proper identification at the species level is critical. The main objective of this study was to find suitable DNA barcodes that can accurately and efficiently identify the potential medicinal species of the genus. Among the barcode loci analyzed, ITS2 exhibited the highest interspecific divergence, followed by trnH‐psbA, matK and rbcL. A clear barcoding gap was evident for the ITS2 barcode region whereas it was less conspicuous for trnH‐psbA and matK. The ITS2 barcode could discriminate all the eight analyzed Salacia species with 100% accuracy. We therefore propose barcoding with ITS2 to confirm the taxonomic identity of the raw drugs in the market. Further, the ITS2 region can be recommended for biosystematic studies in the genus.

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“…Unfortunately, Gamble (1916) had not seen the fruits for S. beddomei and this might have led him to misinterpret the species. Salacia vellaniana from Vellanimala, Thrissur, Kerala (Udayan et al 2013) is based on characters such as smaller leaves, short petiole, few-flowered cymes, colour of the petals and sepals, and warty fruits. All these characters are within the variation range for S. macrosperma.…”

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“…Ramamurthy and Naithani (2000) recognized 21 species of Salacia in India, 11 of which are endemic to the country. Subsequently three further species and one variety have been described from peninsular India (Udayan et al , 2013(Udayan et al , 2014Sujana et al 2015, Page andNandikar 2020).…”

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The genus Salacia (Celastraceae: Salaciodeae) in peninsular India

Nandikar¹

2021

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The genus Salacia (Celastraceae: Salaciodeae) in peninsular India is revised, wherein ten species are recognised. Eight species are endemic to the region. Salacia macrophylla and S. reticulata are excluded from the revision as occurrence of both the species is doubtful in mainland India. Salacia macrosperma exhibits great variation in leaf shape, flower number, pedicel length and fruit texture, hence the morphologically similar species S. beddomei and S. vellaniana are relegated to its synonymy. Descriptions, photographs, and pen and ink as well as colour drawings of all recognised Salacia species are provided with an artificial key, updated nomenclature, and synonymy. Distribution and IUCN Red list categories and criteria are also discussed. Seven binomials, S. fruticosa, S. macrophylla, S. macrosperma, S. oblonga, S. ovalis, Tontelea prinoides and Johnia coromadeliana are lectotypified.

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Salacia Vellaniana Udayan, Yohannan & Pradeep (Celastraceae), a New Species from India

Abstract: Salacia vellaniana Udayan, Yohannan & Pradeep (Celastraceae), a new species from South India, is described and illustrated. It is also compared with the related Salacia macrosperma Wight.

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Distribution and ecological drivers of family celastraceae in Cte Divoire

Distribution and ecological drivers of family celastraceae in Cte Divoire

Species discrimination through DNA barcoding in the genus Salacia of the Western Ghats in India

The genus Salacia (Celastraceae: Salaciodeae) in peninsular India

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