Memecylon Nervosum (Melastomataceae), a New Species From South India

Abstract

Memecylon nervosum Vadhyar, J.H.F.Benj. & Sujana, a new species of Melastomataceae from the Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India, is described and illustrated. It is compared with the closely allied Memecylon heyneanum Benth. and Memecylon jambosioides Wight.

Memecylon viswanathanii, a new species of Melastomataceae from Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), India

“…The genus Memecylon L. belonging to the family of Melastomataceae (The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV 2016) has 357 species (Renner et al 2007 onwards) or around 379 (Michelangeli et al 2020). It is reported that there are 55 species distributed in India wherein 22 species are endemic to the Western Ghats (Viswanathan and Manikandan 2001;Sivu et al 2012Sivu et al , 2018Prabhu and Murugan 2017;Das et al 2018;Radh and Nampy 2019;Vadhyar et al 2020). During an inventory in 2017, plant specimens were collected from the Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) in the southern Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu in India.…”