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Type: Article
Published: 2020-07-08
Page range: 110–115
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Pedicularis raghvendrae (Orobanchaceae), a new species from Sikkim Himalaya, India

Botanical Survey of India, Central Regional Centre, 10-Chatham Lines, Allahabad 211002, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, TNAU Campus, Lawley Road, Coimbatore 641003, Tamil Nadu, India.
Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, 192-Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun 248195, Uttarakhand, India.
Bansoi boggy soil North Sikkim district Pedicularis pantlingii Pedicularis series Furfurae Eudicots

Abstract

Pedicularis raghvendrae, is described as a new species from the Sikkim Himalaya, India. The new species belongs to Pedicularis series Furfurae and is closely related to P. pantlingii, but differs by its shorter size, smaller leaves, smaller, villous, 4-toothed calyx, shorter calyx teeth, corolla white with light pinkish tinge, galea deflexed opposite to the midlobe of labium, midlobe of labium broadly elliptic-ovate, apex acute-obtuse, base distinctly stipitate, stamens inserted at base of corolla tube and filaments longer, all glabrous.