A new species, Pinda shrirangii Gosavi & Chandore, is described and illustrated from a high-elevation region of northern Western Ghats, India. The new species is closely allied to the only other species in the genus, Pinda concanensis (Dalzell) P.K.Mukh. & Constance which was also described from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra state of India. Coloured photographs and illustrations are provided to facilitate the identification.
Shrirangia, a new monotypic genus of the family Apiaceae from low elevated lateritic plateaus of south Konkan region of Maharashtra, India is described and illustrated with a new species, Shrirangia concanensis. The new genus is related to Himalayan genus Chamaesium H.Wolff by the characters of: many (ca 10) ribbed fruit, primary and secondary types of ribs present but very distinct from it by having tuberous habit, ternate to bi‐ternate leaves, commissure plain undulate with 6–7 secondary ribs and vallecular and second types of vittae at dorsal face.
Lepidagathis shrirangii, a new species of Lepidagathis is described and illustrated from Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, India. The new species is closely allied with L. lutea, which was also described from Konkan region of Maharashtra. Coloured photographs, notes on the relationship and the key to the species with two seeds and five sepals is provided to facilitate the identification.
A new species Eleocharis konkanensis Chandore, Borude, Kambale & S.R. Yadav from Konkan region of Maharashtra, India is described and illustrated here.
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