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Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-24
Page range: 113–117
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Iseilema kunhikannanii (Poaceae: Panicoideae), a new species from Rajasthan, India

Forest Survey of India, Central Region, Seminary Hills, Nagpur, Maharashtra
Botanical Survey of India, Deccan Regional Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana
Forest Survey of India, Central Region, Seminary Hills, Nagpur, Maharashtra
Forest Survey of India, Northern Region, Longwood, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
Botanical Survey of India, Deccan Regional Centre, Hyderabad.
Iseilema Rajasthan New species Monocots

Abstract

Iseilema kunhikannanii (Poaceae), a new species from the Bundi forest division, Rajasthan, India, is described and illustrated. It is similar to Iseilema holei, but differs mainly by having tubercles on both keels and marginal nerves of spatheole, involucral spikelets lanceolate, lower glumes 5-nerved, upper glumes 1-nerved, central pedicel shorter than the involucral spikelets, lower glume deep cleft at apex and glabrous keels.