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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-07-01
Page range: 189–192
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A new species of Ephedra (Ephedraceae, Ephedrales) from India

Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi – 110 007
University School of Environment Management, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Sector 16 C, Dwarka, New Delhi, Delhi – 110078
Taxonomy New species Himachal Pradesh Western Himalaya Gymnosperms India

Abstract

Ephedra Linnaeus (1753: 1040) is a genus with approximately 40 species Christenhusz et al. (2011), although the estimates range from 31 Stapf (1889) to ca 50 Price (1996). Sahni (1990) lists eight species for India and adjoining regions, but three additional species (E. kardangensis P.Sharma & P.L.Uniyal in Sharma et al. 2010: 730, E. khurickensis P.Sharma & P.L.Uniyal in Sharma et al. 2010: 731, E. sumlingensis Sharma & Uniyal 2008: 179), have recently been added from the Western Himalayas since (Sharma & Uniyal 2014).