A NEW VARIETY AND A NEW RECORD OF CORYDALIS DC. (FUMARIACEAE) FROM WESTERN HIMALAYA, INDIA

摘要

A new variety, Corydalis vaginans Royle var, jadagangensis Pusalkar & D.K.Singh, is described and illustrated from the Western Himalaya, along with the report of Corydalis govaniana Wall. var. swatensis (Kitam.) Jafri, as a new record for Indian Flora. Recent morpho-taxonomic study on the collections of the genus Corydalis DC, nom. cons. (Fumariaceae) from the Western Himalaya revealed two collections of Corydalis vaginans Royle, one from the Jada Ganga valley in the Gangotri National Park, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand and other from neighbouring Himachal Pradesh, which were different from the typical plants in having winglesson crested upper and lower petals and orbicular or sub orbicular sepals.