A new species of Sonerila (Melastomataceae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India

Murugesan, M.; Arun, P.R.; Raj, P. P. Nikhil; Azeez, P Abdul; Sebastian, Mueller

doi:10.20894/stet.116.008.003.003

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“…Lundin (1998) made an extensive study of Melastomataceae with special emphasis on Sonerila of South India after his taxonomic study of the genus in Ceylon (Lundin, 1983). After Gamble's (1919) treatment, many new species were described and the genus is presently represented by about 50 species in India with high species diversity in the Western Ghats having 33 species and two varieties (Nayar, 1976;, 1986a, b, c, 1987aPrakash and Mehrotra, 1988;Gopalan and Henry, 1989;Giri et al, 1992;Ravikumar, 1999;Murugan and Manickam, 2002;Josephine et al, 2003;Lundin and Nordenstam, 2009;Murugesan and Balasubramaniam, 2011;Ratheesh Narayanan et al, 2013, 2014Deepthikumary and Pandurangan, 2014;Sunil et al, 2014).…”

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<i>Sonerila gadgiliana</i>, a new scapigerous species of Melastomataceae from India

Narayanan

Sivadasan

Sunil³

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Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon

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Sonerila gadgiliana, a new species collected from high altitude moss-covered dripping rocks of grassland-shola margins in Wayanad district, Kerala, India is described and illustrated. The species resembles S. raghaviana Ratheesh et al., S. rotundifolia Bedd. and S. veldkampiana Ratheesh et al., but differs from leaf, inflorescence, peduncle, hypanthium, petal, anther, capsule and seed characteristics.

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<i>Sonerila gadgiliana</i>, a new scapigerous species of Melastomataceae from India

Narayanan

Sivadasan

Sunil³

et al. 2015

Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon

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Farmlands of Gold

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Development always demands displacement as well as compromising the quality of environment.There is no doubt that the Vallarpadam Container Transshipment Terminal is a boost to Kerala economy as well as for the country's international trade scenario. But this project has done an irrevocable damage to our coastal areas where Pokkali indigenous organic rice cum prawn culture was practiced. The Pokkali-Prawn rotational culture system plays a very important role in maintaining the environmental quality as well as protecting our rich ecosystem. Due to this development project lot of people were displaced and hectares of wetlands were converted. The people who are displaced they not only lost their land but also their livelihood. The people who were traditionally practising Pokkali cultivation were generally unskilled and they are not able to move to any other occupation for meeting their ends. The damage done in the name of development to the environment as well as to the people is to be discussed seriously.

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A new species of Sonerila (Melastomataceae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India

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<i>Sonerila gadgiliana</i>, a new scapigerous species of Melastomataceae from India

<i>Sonerila gadgiliana</i>, a new scapigerous species of Melastomataceae from India

Farmlands of Gold

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