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- Title
Tupistra khasiana (Asparagaceae), a new species from Meghalaya, India.
- Authors
ROY, Dilip Kumar; MAO, Ashiho A.; AVERYANOV, Leonid V.
- Abstract
Tupistra khasiana D.K.Roy, A.A.Mao & Aver. (Asparagaceae), a new species from Meghalaya, India is described and illustrated. It differs from similar congeners, T. pingbianensis, T. fungilliformis and T. tupistroides in having creeping rhizomatous stem, down curved peduncle, smaller, thick, fleshy, bract, to 3 mm long, obscurely tri-dentate bracteole, to 2 mm long, ca. 2 mm broad, comparatively shorter perianth, to 8.5 mm long, with externally light green tube and smaller lobes, 3.5-4 mm long, shorter style, 5 mm long and in dark purple stigma, with distinctly undulated margin. Key to the Indian Tupistra is given.
- Subjects
ASPARAGACEAE; PLANT diversity; ASPARAGALES; BIODIVERSITY; PLANTS
- Publication
Taiwania, 2017, Vol 62, Issue 3, p257
- ISSN
0372-333X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6165/tai.2017.62.257