Theriophonum danielii, a new species of Araceae from Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

A new species, Theriophonum danielii, is described and illustrated. The species differs from its closely allied species, Theriophonum infaustum N. E. Br. in having different shaped leaf, long petiole, short spathe, short spadix, long sterile flowers and black dotted staminate flowers.

Theriophonum blumei (Araceae), a new species from Tamil Nadu, India

“…Later, two more new species viz. T. manickamii Murugan and Natarajan (2008) and T. danielii Rajakumar et al (2010) were published. However, Sivadasan et al (2014) reduced the latter two species to synonyms of T. fischeri and T. infaustum respectively.…”

“…The identity of the specimen was examined at Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirappalli (RHT) and Madras Herbarium Theriophonum blumei (Araceae), a new species from Tamil Nadu, India (MH), Southern Regional Centre, Botanical Survey of India, Coimbatore. It was scrutinized based on the earlier published literature such as Sivadasan and Nicolson (1982), Matthew (1983), Daniel et al (1988), Murugan and Natarajan (2008), Rajakumar et al (2010), Sivadasan et al (2014) and Sasikala et al (2019). Since our present collection did not match convincingly with any of the earlier published species; we consider it to be a new species of Theriophonum.…”