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Volume 62, Issue 2, December 2020

Articles

Notes on the Identity of Vernonia shevaroyensis (Asteraceae) and its Neotypification

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v62/2020/156893

Published 2020-12-31

  • Bandana Bhattacharjee
    • ,
  • P. Lakshminarasimhan
    • ,
  • Sobhan Kumar Mukherjee
    • ,
  • S. Kaliamoorthy
    • ,
  • Avishek Bhattacharjee

Bandana Bhattacharjee
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah – 711 103, West Bengal

P. Lakshminarasimhan
E-1/ 302, Uttam Townscapes, S. No. 154, Yerawada, Pune, Maharashtra

Sobhan Kumar Mukherjee
Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal

S. Kaliamoorthy
National Orchidarium & Experimental Garden, Botanical Survey of India, Yercaud – 636602

Avishek Bhattacharjee
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah – 711 103, West Bengal

Abstract

Vernonia shevaroyensis Gamble is treated here as a heterotypic synonym of Vernonia vivekanathanii Uniyal and a neotype has been designated for V. shevaroyensis in the present communication in absence of any original material of the name.

Keywords

Compositae, Endemic, Monosis wightiana, Synonym, Vernonia vivekanathanii, Vernonieae.

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Avishek Bhattacharjee

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