Tripogon mahendragiriensis sp. nov. (Poaceae) from the Eastern Ghats of Odisha (Orissa) State, India

Abstract

Tripogon mahendragiriensis (Poaceae), a new species from Mahendragiri Hills, Eastern Ghats, Odisha (Orissa) State, India is described and illustrated. It is similar to Tripogon humilis and T. purpurascens, but differs mainly by having longer culms, leaf blades and spike, unlobed lemmas and 2 anthers which are longer. From T. purpurascens it also differs by having 3‐awned lemmas.

A revision of Tripogon (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) in India

“…& Spach) grow as epiphytes on the basal parts of tree trunks in humid evergreen forests, while several others occur in xeric to dry habitats with poor soil. Since Bor's (1960) account on the grasses of the Indian subcontinent, several species were added to the genus in India by various authors (Sreekumar et al, 1983a(Sreekumar et al, , 1983bPradeep & Sunil, 1999;Sunil & Pradeep, 2001;Newmaster et al, 2008;Chorghe et al, 2013Chorghe et al, , 2015Sunil et al, 2015;Thoiba et al, 2015Thoiba et al, , 2016Arumugam & Murugan, 2017;Murugesan et al, 2017;Rao & Anil Kumar, 2018;Rasingam & Swamy, 2018) increasing the number of species from 13 to 24, excluding those that have been reduced into synonymy. Peterson et al (2016) in their recent classification based on molecular phylogeny erected a new segregate genus, Tripogonella P.M.Peterson & Romasch.…”

The pros and cons of being broad: recent and future progress of Nordic Journal of Botany

“…As for these latter, we have published descriptions of new plant species from almost all parts of the world, e.g. China (among many others Liu et al , Wang et al , Zhou et al ), India (among many others Chorghe et al , Gogoi and Borah ), Thailand (Kidyoo ) and Vietnam (Averyanov et al ) in Asia, Ukraine and Spain in Europe (Chkalov , Blanca et al ), Tanzania, South Africa and Madagascar in Africa (Cupido , Stone , Byng ), Brazil (Wilmot‐Dear et al , Freitas et al ) and Guatemala (Archila et al ) in South America, and Mexico in North America (González‐Gallegos and Castro‐Castro , Vázquez‐García et al ). Likewise, our taxonomic contributions cover all major vascular plant groups from orchids (Hall et al , Sanguinetti , Szlachetko and Kolanowska , Kumar et al ) and bamboos (Nguyen and Tran ) to Asteraceae (Øllgaard , Attar et al , Negaresh and Rahiminejad , Nilsson and Tyler ).…”