Murdannia edulis (Stokes) Faden (1980: 77) Pl.

Antony, Anna Ancy & Nampy, Santhosh, 2014, Taxonomic significance of capsule and seed characters of Indian species of Murdannia Royle (Commelinaceae), Phytotaxa 178 (1), pp. 1-22 : 6

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scientific name	Murdannia edulis (Stokes) Faden (1980: 77) Pl.
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6. Murdannia edulis (Stokes) Faden (1980: 77) Pl. View in CoL 1E; 4E; 8A, B

Capsule oblong to elliptic, 4–7 × 2–2.5 mm, apically maroon tinged. Seeds 2 or 3 per locule, uniseriate, ovate to rectangular, 2.6–3 × 1.9–2 mm; testa smooth, scrobiculate, ridges and furrows running down from the embryotega; hilum oblong to elliptic; embryotega dorsal.

Specimens examined:–– Karnataka, Mysore district, Agumbe , 17 June 1961, R . S . Raghavan 74136; Ibid. , 21 May 1960, R . S . Raghavan 62790 ( BSI) . Kerala, Wayanad district, Kuruva island , 4 May 2008, Anna Ancy Antony & Santhosh Nampy 2301 ( DEV) . Madhya Pradesh, Barwani district, Near Rajpur , May 1979, Surendra Singh 53741 ( BSD) . Maharashtra, Chandrapur district, Chandrapur , 15 August 1972, B . M . Wadhwa 137340 ( BSI). Nagar Haweli , 26 June 1964, M . Y . Ansari 98485 ( BSI) .

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Abbreviations

R	Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile
S	Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History
BSI	Botanical Survey of India, Western Circle
DEV	St. Joseph's College
BSD	Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre
B	Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet
M	Botanische Staatssammlung München
Y	Yale University