URGINEA NAGARJUNAE HEMADRI ET SWAHARI A NEW SPECIES OF ULIACEAE FROM INDIA (A NEW PLANT DISCOVERY)

摘要

A new species of Urginea Steinhill. located in Andhra Pradaah and Tamilnadu (India), namely Urginea negarjunae Hemadri et Swaharl which produces the thickest scape coupled with the largest and closely arranged flowers and nonreflexed tepals among all the Indian species so far recorded under Urginea Steinhill, is described with illustrations. Chromosomal study revealed that the new taxon is not a polyploid; its 2n = 20