TY -JOUR
AU -Mohd Shabir
AU -Priyanka Agnihotri
AU -Jay Krishan Tiwari
AU -Tariq Husain
TI -Gentiana pringlei (Gentianaceae) – A new species from cold deserts of Ladakh Himalaya, India
PY -2018
DA -2018-10-26
JO -Taiwania
VL -63
IS -4
SP -356
EP -359
UR -https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/1578
AB -A new species, Gentiana pringlei (Gentianaceae) has been collected from Suru valley in Kargil district of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir. The new species shows morphological resemblance to G. loureiroi and G. napulifera, but differs from both in annual habit, absence of stolons, stem branched from base as well as from middle, three distinct veins on all the leaves, slightly keeled abaxially, purple flowers, ovate calyx lobes, sinus between calyx lobes truncate, corolla lobes oblong-elliptic, plicae bifid, shape and size of anthers and seeds small. The new species is described and illustrated here as Gentiana pringlei. In addition, the comparative morphological features with the sympatric species are tabulated.
DO -10.6165/tai.2018.63.356