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Issue: Vol. 440 No. 3: 28 April 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-04-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.440.3.5
Page range: 232–238
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

Discovery of Aconitum haridasanii (Ranunculaceae), a new species from Arunachal Pradesh, India

Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong - 793022, Meghalaya, India.
Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong - 793022, Meghalaya, India.
Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong - 793022, Meghalaya, India.
Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong - 793022, Meghalaya, India.
CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226001, Uttar Pradesh, India
Aconitum haridasanii Tawang morphology taxonomy Endangered General

Abstract

Aconitum haridasanii, a new species from Tawang, India, is described and illustrated. This new species differs from its allied species Aconitum spicatum in having a taller and flexuous stem, pale yellow to whitish flowers in a shorter few-flowered inflorescence, densely pubescent shorter pedicels, bract shorter than pedicel, shorter sepals, longer petals, and only 3 carpels. Threat assessment was undertaken for the species following IUCN criteria (IUCN 2017 version 13) and the species was classified as Critically Endangered.