taxonID	type	description	language	source
038587FFFF9FFF982B5CFC37FD82F987.taxon	description	Flowering & fruiting: Flowering in July to October and fruiting in October to January. Distribution: India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand. Specimens examined: INDIA, Meghalaya, West Jaintia Hills district, Khasi and Jaintia Hills, Mytang Valley, 20.01.1916, U. Kanjilal 6567 (ASSAM); West Garo Hills district, Nokrek National Park, near Sisubibra village, 16.10.2007, V. K. Singh & Bikram Singh 116739 (ASSAM). Mizoram, Aizawl district, Aizawl City, 08.10.2018, P. R. Lawand 043 (SUK); Mamit district, Dampa Tiger Reserve, Lallen, 12.12.2006, N. Odyuo 113629 (ASSAM); West Phaileng, 08.10.2018, P. R. Lawand 014 (SUK). Sikkim, East Sikkim district, 1895, G. M. Gammie s. n. (BSI); Baghey Khola, 13.11.1998, S. S. Dash 20928; Saramsa, 23.08.1980, P. K. Hajra 593; Reshi Khola, 10.12.1980, P. Chakraborty 1099 (BSHC); South Sikkim district, Ratey Pani, 11.09.1981, B. Krishna 1771 (BHSC); North Sikkim district, Right Flank, Dikchu, 13.12.1997, B. K. Shukla 20315 (BHSC); West Sikkim district, Tashiding, 11.12.1994, G. P. Sinha & S. Pradhan 15279 (BHSC). West Bengal, Darjeeling district, Darjeeling, on the way to Bagrakote, 13.10.2018, P. R. Lawand 044 (SUK); Jalpaiguri district, Poro Buxa Div., 22.11.1975, J. K. Sikdar 838 (CAL); Kalimpong district, Kalimpong, 08.08.1997, P. Sinha & S. S. Dash 17282 (BSHC). Notes: Argyreia hookeri is closely similar to A. boseana in having widely ovate to orbicular leaves, longer peduncles, few to many flowered inflorescence, rose-pink corolla and yellow fleshy berries. However, A. hookeri can be distinguished by its sparsely hairy adaxial and white tomentose abaxial leaf surfaces, 6 – 15 - flowered, dichotomously branched cymes, lance-ovate caducous bracts and outwardly reflexed lance-ovate sepals with acute apex. In addition, both the species shows a disjunct distribution. Some additional morphological differences between these taxa are given in Table 1 and Figure 1. Based on extensive field surveys along the Western Ghats and after examining the herbarium specimens of Argyreia at AHMA, BLAT, BSI, CALI, DRC, MH and TBGT, it is concluded that A. hookeri does not occur in the Western Ghats. After careful scrutiny of our own collections and specimens at above mentioned herbaria, it is revealed that whatever specimens collected and identified as A. hookeri from the Western Ghats are actually belong to A. boseana. The original taxon identified erroneously as A. hookeri by Cooke (1908) was later described as A. boseana by Santapau and Patel (1958). The Cooke’s concept of A. hookeri was, however, followed by succeeding taxonomists (Sharma et al., 1984; Venkanna & Das Das, 2001; Ramaswamy et al., 2001; Manikandan & Lakshminarasimhan, 2013; Nayar et al., 2014). Report on the occurrence of A. hookeri in Western Ghats is thus erroneous.	en	P. R., Lawand, Shimpale, V. B. (2020): Notes on identity and distribution of Argyreia boseana and A. hookeri (Convolvulaceae) in India. Rheedea 30 (2): 282-285, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.02.04, URL: https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.02.04
