identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03B1D82BFF8EC957FF1CF9C9FA97FD6F.text	03B1D82BFF8EC957FF1CF9C9FA97FD6F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Asystasia gangetica	<div><p>Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anderson var. krishnae Dhruvan, Pandur. &amp; Mohanan, var. nov. Figs. 1 &amp; 2</p><p>Differs from the typical variety in having larger (2–9 cm long), mostly ovate-lanceolate leaves with long-attenuate bases, violet-purple bracts and bracteoles, smaller (1.8-2 cm) simple hairy, corolla limb, and anthers with a vertical violet-black band on the sides.</p><p>Received: 28.01.2019; Revised &amp; Accepted: 03.06.2019 Published Online: 30.06.2019</p><p>Type: INDIA, Kerala, Kollam district, near Kulathupuzha Range Office, 100 m, 18.04.2017, Dhruvan T . 85005 (holo TBGT!; iso CALI!, MH!).</p><p>Procumbent or subscandent herbs, trailing at the base and rooting at the lower nodes, 30−60 cm long; stem branched, quadrangular, puberulent; internodes 2.5−12 cm long; nodes jointed, swollen, 0.2−0.5 cm across. Leaves opposite, decussate; petioles 0.2−6.5 cm long, adpressedpuberulent; lamina mostly ovate-lanceolate, rarely ovate, 2−9 × 2.3−4.4 cm, long-attenuate or rarely obtuse to sub-cordate at base, acuminate to subacute at apex, margins entire, adpressedpuberulent above, puberulent on veins beneath, green, young leaves sometimes with dark purple tinge; lateral veins (5)−7−(8) pairs. Racemes terminal and axillary, 1-sided, spike-like, 12–25 cm long, 6−12-flowered, lax; bracts lanceolate, 0.2 cm long, acute to acuminate at apex, violet-purple, ciliate along margins, persistent; bracteoles similar to bracts, 0.15 cm long. Flowers 1.8−2 cm across, white, with a violet-purple blotch in the middle lobe of lower lip; pedicels 0.08−0.1 cm long, densely puberulent. Calyx tube 0.1 cm long, 5-lobed; sepals 5, linear-lanceolate, 0.3−0.35 cm long, puberulent on the back. Corolla limb sub-orbicular, 1.8−2 cm across; tube funnelshaped, pilose inside below the insertion of the stamens, lower narrow portion 0.5−0.55 cm long, c. 0.25 cm wide, glabrous outside, the upper ventricose portion 0.7−0.8 cm long, 0.7−0.8 cm broad at the mouth, pubescent outside; lobes 5, almost rounded, 0.5− 0.6 cm in expanse. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted at 0.5 cm above the base of corolla tube, included; filaments of the shorter stamens 0.4−0.5 cm long, longer ones 0.7−0.8 cm long, connate at the base in pairs, glabrous except for few glandular hairs at the base; anthers oblong, c. 0.16 cm long, muticous, spurred, white with a vertical violet-black band on the sides. Ovary oblong-lanceolate, 0.16−0.18 cm long, densely pubescent, basally surrounded by fleshy, dull white, nectariferous disc, 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; style linear, 0.8−1 cm long, white, basally hispid; stigma shortly 2-fid, smooth. Capsules clavate, 2.3−2.5 × 0.3−0.35 cm, densely puberulent, opening widely in a reflexed curve. Seeds 3 or 4, suborbicular, compressed, c. 0.3 cm across, subtuberculate, rugose, angular with double dentate margins; margins slightly thickened, lobes slightly defined.</p><p>Flowering &amp; fruiting: Throughout the year.</p><p>Habitat: Occasionally found in shady places in moist deciduous forests, in loamy-lateritic soils, at an elevation of about 100 m.</p><p>Distribution: Hitherto known only from the type locality.</p><p>Specimens examined: INDIA, Kerala, Kollam district, Kalladakarikakam, near Madathra, 100 m, 12.09.2017, Dhruvan T85019 (TBGT!); Attupuram, near Kadakkal, 90 m, 22.10.2018, Dhruvan T85027 (TBGT!) .</p><p>Etymology: The epithet ‘Krishnae’ refers to its violet-black coloured band on the sides of anthers.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B1D82BFF8EC957FF1CF9C9FA97FD6F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Tandyekkal, Dhruvan;A. G., Pandurangan;Abstract, N. Mohanan;Ghats, Western;Keywords, Kerala.	Tandyekkal, Dhruvan, A. G., Pandurangan, Abstract, N. Mohanan, Ghats, Western, Keywords, Kerala. (2019): Asystasia gangetica var. krishnae (Acanthaceae): A new variety from Kerala, India. Rheedea 29 (2): 174-177, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2019.29.2.02, URL: https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2019.29.2.02
