Two new species of <I>Syzygium</I> (<I>Myrtaceae</I>) from Saddle Peak National Park, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Abstract

Two new species of Syzygium, S. hookeri and S. sanjappaiana from the Saddle Peak National Park of North Andaman Islands, are described and illustrated. The novelties are deliberated in the light of reviewed concept on the genus Syzygium and discussed with related species of Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

Syzygium syzygioides (Myrtaceae), a new distributional record for Peninsular India

“…Syzygium Gaertn., the largest genus in Myrtaceae, comprises about 1200 species distributed from Africa eastwards to the Hawaiian Islands, India and southern China southwards to Australia and New Zealand (Parnell et al, 2007;Govaerts et al, 2020). Seventy two species are so far reported from India, which include eight recently described species from the Western Ghats, two from Andaman Nicobar Islands and one from Northeast India (Viswanathan & Manikantan, 2008;Shareef et al, 2012Shareef et al, , 2014Sujanapal et al, 2013Sujanapal et al, , 2014Nayar et al, 2014;Ramana et al, 2014;Narayanan et al, 2014;Murugan & Arumugam, 2017;Ramasubbu et al, 2018;Sarma et al, 2019). The Western Ghats of Peninsular India shows the highest diversity of the genus in India with 47 species, 20 of which are endemic (Nayar et al, 2014;Govaerts et al, 2020).…”

Syzygium (Myrtaceae): Monographing a taxonomic giant via 22 coordinated regional revisions

“…Scott (1980Scott ( , 1990, Bosser et al (1987), Friedmann (1994), Bosser & Florens (2000), Byng et al (2015a) 4. Indian subcontinent (Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal) 86 89 Wight (1841), Duthie (1878-9), Kanjilal et al (1938), Chithra (1983), Long & Rae (1991), Saldanha (1996, Almeida (1998), Nayar et al (2006), Shareef et al (2012Shareef et al ( , 2013Shareef et al ( , 2014, Sujanapal et al (2013), Ramana et al (2014), Byng et al (2015c) 5. Sri Lanka 36 37 Ashton (1981), Kostermans (1981) 6.…”