Chlorophytum belgaumense, a new species of Asparagaceae from the Western Ghats of India

Chlorophytum kolliensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India

“…Thorough examination of herbarium material and relevant literature (Sardesai et al . 2006;Malpure & Yadav 2009;Chandore et al 2012;Prabhu kumar et al . 2014;Adsulet al .…”

Chlorophytum kolliense (Asparagaceae), a new species from the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India

“…Most of the species of Chlorophytum are ephemerals and the size and colour of the flower closely resemble each other making it difficult to differentiate one from the other. However, Chandore et al (2012) propose that features like roots, filament and anther length are more consistent and can be used taxonomically to differentiate the species. Chlorophytum comosum (Thunb.)…”

“…During our field exploration in Kolli hills of the Eastern Ghats, we collected some interesting specimens of Chlorophytum from shola borders in rocky grounds. Thorough examination of herbarium material and relevant literature (Sardesai et al 2006, Malpure and Yadav 2009, Chandore et al 2012, Adsul et al 2014, Prabhu Kumar et al 2014, Mathew and George 2015, Shaikh et al 2017, Borah et al 2019, Lakshminarasimhan et al 2019) revealed that it is an allied to Chlorophytum laxum . However, microscopic evaluation of root anatomy, seed, anther, pollen, leaf epidermal and molecular features suggests that it is dissimilar to C. laxum.…”

Addition of four species to the flora of Andaman Islands, India

“…The genus Chlorophytum Ker Gawler belonging to the family of Asparagaceae includes about 200 species (Govaerts et al 2012) distributed in the Old-World tropics (Mabberley 2017). In India, the genus is represented by 19 species (Chandore et al 2012). In Andaman & Nicobar Islands only one species -Chlorophytum comosum (Thunb.)…”