Articles
Ophiorrhiza meenachilarensis, a new species of Rubiaceae from southern Western Ghats, India
Aloor Jose Robi
Published 2020-11-18
Keywords
- Ophiorrhizeae,
- Camptothecin,
- Kerala,
- Rubioideae,
- Vagamon hills
How to Cite
Balan, A. P., Robi, A. J., & Joseph, G. (2020). Ophiorrhiza meenachilarensis, a new species of Rubiaceae from southern Western Ghats, India. Webbia, 75(2), 231–236. https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-8508
Funding data
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Science and Engineering Research Board
Grant numbers PDF/2016/001936
Abstract
A new species of Ophiorriza (Rubiaceae) from southern Western Ghats, India is here described and illustrated. Ophiorriza meenachilarensis is similar to O. eriantha, from which it differs in its herbaceous habit (vs. shrubby habit), densely villous-hirsute stem (vs. pubescent-glabrous stem), entire stipule (vs. bifid stipule), short-peduncled cymes (vs. comparatively long-peduncled cymes), unscented flowers (vs. scented flowers) and corolla tube with a ring of hairs at the middle of the tube (vs. corolla tube without a ring of hairs). A detailed description, illustrations, ecological observations, and geographic distribution are provided.
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Hareesh VS, Sreekumar VB, Prabhukumar KM, Nirmesh TK, Sreejith KA. 2015a. Ophiorrhiza sahyadriensis (Rubiaceae), a new species from Southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India. Phytotaxa 202:219–224. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.202.3.6
Hareesh VS, Sreekumar VB, Prabhukumar KM, Sabu M, Sreejith KA. 2015b. Lectotypification of Ophiorrhiza heterostyla Dunn and the new record of O. rugosa var. angustifolia (Thwaites) Ridsdale (Rubiaceae) for India. Webbia 70: 109–112. https://doi.org/10.1080/00837792.2015.1015249
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Second Edition. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. p. 1–32
Khan AES, Santhosh Kumar ES, Pushpangadan P. 1998. A new species of Ophiorrhiza L. (Rubiaceae) from, Kerala, India. J Bombay Nat Hist Soc. 95:317–318.
Lo HS. 1990. Taxonomic revision of the Chinese species of Ophiorrhiza (Rubiaceae). Bull Bot Res. 10:1–82.
Nayar TS, Beegam AR, Sibi M. 2014. Flowering Plants of the Western Ghats, India. Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram. Vol. 1, p. 794–797.
Ramamurthy K, Rajan R. 1985. A new species of Ophiorrhiza L. (Rubiaceae) from, Kerala state, India. J Bombay Nat Hist Soc. 82:174–176.
Rajan R, Varghese SC, Kurup R, Gopalakrishnan R, Venkataraman R, Satheeshkumar K, Baby S. 2016. HPTLC-based quantification of camptothecin in Ophiorrhiza species of the southern Western Ghats in India. Cogent Chemistry 2(1):1275408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23312009.2016.1275408
Tao C, Taylor CM. 2011. Ophiorrhiza. In: Wu ZY, Raven PH, Hong DY (Eds.) Flora of China. (Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae, with Annonaceae and Berberidaceae). Beijing: Science Press, and St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Vol. 19, p. 258–282
WCSP. 2019. 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families’ Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://wcsp.science.kew.org/ Retrieved 14 March 2020.