%0 Journal Article %A Mayur Nandikar and R. V. Gurav %T A New Species of Murdannia Royle (Commelinaceae) from Northern Western Ghats of India %D 2011 %J Taiwania %V 56 %N 3 %P 227-230 %U https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/1085 %X A new species of Murdannia Royle (Commelinaceae), Murdannia brownii Nandikar & Gurav, is described and illustrated from northern Western Ghats of India. It differs from allied M. versicolor (Dalzell) Bruckn. in having obovate, rose-red to flesh coloured petals, elliptic capsule and falsifoveate-glebulate seed surface. %M doi:10.6165/tai.2011.56(3).227