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GENTIANA ARUNII SP. NOV.: TINY REMARKABLE GENTIANA FROM SIKKIM HIMALAYA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2017

D. Maity ,
S. K. Dey ,
J. Ghosh  and
M. Midday
D. Maity*
Affiliation:
Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700 019, West Bengal, India.
S. K. Dey
Affiliation:
Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700 019, West Bengal, India.
J. Ghosh
Affiliation:
Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700 019, West Bengal, India.
M. Midday
Affiliation:
Taxonomy and Biosystematics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700 019, West Bengal, India.
*
E-mail for correspondence: debmaity@yahoo.com
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Abstract

A new species, Gentiana arunii D.Maity, S.K.Dey, J.Ghosh & Midday, from alpine pasture in Sikkim Himalaya is described and illustrated, and placed in Gentiana section Chondrophyllae Bunge. The new species is compared morphologically with two related taxa, Gentiana glabriuscula T.N.Ho and Gentiana pluviarum W.W.Sm. subsp. subtilis (Harry Sm.) T.N.Ho.

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ChondrophyllaeGentianaceaeIUCN status
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany , Volume 75 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 117 - 125
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Copyright © Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2017) 

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