Research Article | Published: 31 January 2022

Lectotypifications in the Indo-Sri Lankan genus Uniyala (Asteraceae) with critical notes

Krishnachandran Sampath Kumar and Senniappan Arumugam

Indian Journal of Forestry | Volume: 44 | Issue: 3 | Page No. 128-132 | 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2022-9546C1 | Cite this article

Abstract

Robinson & Skvarla (2009) created the genus Uniyala based on SEM studies of the pollen and herbarium material by grouping seven species previously placed in Vernonia Schreb. The basionyms as well as the seven new combinations, however, were not typified and hence the lectotypes are designated here for all the seven Indo-Sri Lankan endemic species as per the Code. Uniyala wightiana (Arn.) H. Rob. & Skvarla is added here to the Flora of Tamil Nadu. Critical taxonomic notes for each species have also been provided.

Keywords

Distribution, Endemic, India, Lectotype, Southern Western Ghats, Sri Lanka, Uniyala, Vernonia

Access Options

250/-

Buy Full Access in HTML Format

Instant access to the full article.

References

1. Arnott, G.W., 1836. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum Exhibentia Ephemerides sive Observationes Historias et Experimenta 18 (1), pp.345.

Google Scholar

2. Bean, W.J., 1920. Decades Kewenses: Plantarum Novarum in Herbario Horti Regii Conservatarum. Bulletin of the Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) 10, pp.339–340.  https://doi.org/10.2307/4118597

Google Scholar

3. Bunwong, S., Chantaranothai, P. and Keeley S.C., 2014. Revisions and key to the Vernonieae (Compositae) of Thailand. Phytokeys 37, pp.25–101.  https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.37.6499

Google Scholar

4. Fosberg, F.R., 1992. An essay on lectotypification. Taxon 41, pp.321–323.  https://doi.org/10.2307/1222339

Google Scholar

5. Fyson, P.F., 1915. The Flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney Hill-Tops. Vol. 1. Superintendent, Govt. Press, Madras. 

Google Scholar

6. Fyson, P.F., 1920. The Flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney Hill-Tops. Vol.3. Superintendent, Govt. Press, Madras.

Google Scholar

7. Gamble, J.S., 1921. Flora of the Presidency of Madras, Vol. 1. Adlard & Sons, London.

Google Scholar

8. Hooker, J.D., 1881. The Flora of British India. Vol. III. L. Reeve & Co. London. p.238.

9. Hutchinson, J., 1916. Decades Kewenses. Plantarum Novarum in Herbario Hortii Regii Conservatarum. Decas LXXXVII. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew., 1916 (2), pp.35.  https://doi.org/10.2307/4119517

10. IPNI, 2021. International Plant Names Index. Available from: https://www.ipni.org/a/281-1, (accessed on 19 May, 2021).

11. Keeley, S.C., Forsman, Z.H. and Chan, R., 2007. A phylogeny of the “evil tribe” (Vernonieae: Compositae) reveals Old/New World long distance dispersal: Support from separate and combined congruent datasets (trnL-F, ndhF, ITS). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44, pp.89–103.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.024

Google Scholar

12. Kumar, E.S.S., Roy, P.E., Shareef, S.M. and Usha, S.S., 2012. Rediscovery of Uniyala multibracteata (Gamble) H. Rob. & Skvarla (Asteraceae) from the southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(5), pp.2587–2589.  https://doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2968.2587-9

Google Scholar

13. Manikandan, U. 2006. Conservation of Threatened Plant Genetic Resources of Kalakkad-Mudanthurai Tiger Reserve in India. PhD Thesis, M.S. University, Tirunelveli, India.

Google Scholar

14. McNeill, J., 2014. Holotype specimens and type citations: General issues. Taxon 63, pp.1112–1113.  https://doi.org/10.12705/635.7

Google Scholar

15. Mohanan, M., Henry, A.N. and Nair, N.C., 1982. Some rare and fast disappearing plants discovered in Trivandrum District, Kerala. Bulletin of Botanical Survey of India 22(1-4), pp.105–108.

Google Scholar

16. Murugan, C., Chithra, V. and Murthy, G.V.S., 2008. Vernonia wightiana Arn. An addition to Indian Asteraceae from Kerala. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: pp.557–558.

17. Myers, N., Mittermeier, R., Mittermeier, C., da Fonesca G.A.B. and Kent, J., 2000. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403, pp.853–858. https://doi.org/10.1038/35002501

Google Scholar

18. Nayar, M.P. and Sastry, A.R.K., 1987. Red Data Book of Indian Plants Vol.I. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata, p.90.

Google Scholar

19. POWO, 2021. Plants of the World Online. Available from: http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names: 7711 4246-1.

20. Puri, G.S., Jain, S.K., Mukerjee, S.K., Sarup, S. and Kotwal, N.N., 1964. Flora of Rajasthan. Records of the Botanical Survey of India 19(1), p.73. 

21. Robinson, H., 1999. Revisions in paleotropical Vernonieae (Asteraceae) Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 112, pp.220–247.

Google Scholar

22. Robinson, H. and Skvarla, J.J., 2009. A new genus, Uniyala, from peninsular India and Sri Lanka (Vernonieae: Asteraceae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 122, pp.150–154.  https://doi.org/10.2988/08-21.1

Google Scholar

23. Smith, W.W., 1913. Four new species of the Compositae from Southern India and a new Justicia from Assam. Records of the Bulletin Botanical Survey of India 4, p.283.

24. The Plant List, 2021. Available from: http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/gcc-49465

25. Thwaites, G.H.K. 1864. Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae. Dulau & Co., London. p.160.

Google Scholar

26. Turland, N.J., Wiersema, J.H. and McNeill, J., 2020. (007-008) Proposals to make clearer the circumstances under which a holotype can exist. Taxon 69(3), pp.626–627.  https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12248

Google Scholar

27. Turland, N.J., Wiersema, J.H., Barrie, F.R., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, D.L., Herendeen, P.S., Knapp, S., Kusber, W.-H., Li, D.-Z., Marhold, K., May, T.W., McNeill, J., Monro, A.M., Prado, J., Price, M.J. and Smith, G.F., (eds) 2018. International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Shenzhen Code) adopted by the Nineteenth International Botanical Congress Shenzhen, China, July 2017. Regnum Vegetabile 159. Glashütten: Koeltz Botanical Books, 254 pp. https://doi.org/10.12705/Code.2018

Google Scholar

28. Uniyal, B.P., 1995. Asteraceae (Inuleae-Vernonieae). In: Hajra, P.K., Rao, R.R. and Singh, D.K.  (eds), Flora of India. Vol. XIII. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, pp.330–394.

Google Scholar

29. Vasanthy, G., 1985. Palynology and certain aspects of histology of South Indian Vernonieae (Asteraceae). PhD Dissertation, Madras University, Madras, India. 

Google Scholar

30. Walter, K.S. and Gillett, H.J. (eds), 1998. 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. IUCN – The World Conservation Union. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. p. 862.

Google Scholar

31. Wight, R., 1846. Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis: or figures of Indian Plants. Vol.III: p.6, t.1079.

About this article

How to cite

Sampath Kumar, K. and Arumugam, S., 2021. Lectotypifications in the Indo-Sri Lankan genus Uniyala (Asteraceae) with critical notes. Indian Journal of Forestry, 44(3), pp.128-132. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2022-9546C1

Publication History

Manuscript Received on 21 July 2021

Manuscript Revised on 12 December 2021

Manuscript Accepted on 30 December 2021

Manuscript Published on 31 January 2022

Share this article

Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: