Research Article | Published: 20 March 2019

Tripogon ashihoi (Poaceae: Chloridoideae), a new species from the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India

M. Murugesan, S. Arumugam and K. Althaf Ahamed Kabeer

Indian Journal of Forestry | Volume: 42 | Issue: 1 | Page No. 67-70 | 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2019-Z6VDY7 | Cite this article

Abstract

A new grass species collected from the Ayyamalai forests, Bolampatti hills of Coimbatore district, the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, is described and illustrated here. The new species is morphologically similar to T. bromoides but differs by having the culms up to 90 cm high; 5–28 cm long sparsely scabrid leaves with acuminate tip; spikelets with 6 –10, linear, fertile florets; upper glume 5 –5.5 mm long with ca. 1.5 mm long mucro at apex, lemma elliptic - oblong, 3–3.5 mm long; central awn from sinus 2.3–3 mm long; palea 2-keeled, ciliate, without setae at obtuse apex and anthers 0.9– 1.1 mm long.

Keywords

Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, Tripogoninae, Tripogon, New Species

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Murugesan, M., Arumugam, S. and Kabeer, K.A., 2019. Tripogon ashihoi (Poaceae: Chloridoideae), a new species from the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Indian Journal of Forestry, 42(1), pp.67-70. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2019-Z6VDY7

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