@article {20348, title = {A new species of Litsea (Lauraceae) from Kerala part of Western Ghats, India}, journal = {Phytotaxa}, volume = {303}, year = {2017}, month = {04/2017}, pages = {285-289}, chapter = {285}, abstract = {

A new species of Litsea from India is described and illustrated. Litsea indoverticillata is recognized from the Malabar Wildlife sanctuary of Nilgiri phytogeographical zone of southern Western Ghats. It is distinguished from the closely related L. quinqueflora and L. verticillata by straggling shrub habit; 7\–15 mm long, glabrous petiole, chartaceous and glabrous leaves, glabrous midrib; 15\–24 pairs of lateral veins; solitary, glabrous, and pruinose inflorescence; greenish-white to whitish flowers.

}, doi = {doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.303.3.9}, author = {Robi, A.J. and Udayan, Punnakkal Sreedharan and Li, Hsi-Wen and Li, Jie} } @article {20312, title = {Litsea udayanii (Lauraceae): A new species from the southern Western Ghats, India}, journal = {Phytotaxa}, volume = {222}, year = {2015}, pages = {44-50}, chapter = {44}, abstract = {

Litsea udayanii, a new species of Lauraceae from the Anamalai phytogeographical zone of southern Western Ghats is described and illustrated here. The new species resembles L. cubeba in its clustered inflorescence and L. beddomei in fruits.\  Litsea udayanii differs from L. cubeba by its coriaceous leaves, 12 staminodes in the female flowers, ellipsoid fruits, and an enlarged and cup-shaped perianth tube; it differs from L. beddomei by its elliptic-oblong leaves with cuneate to rounded base and abaxially prominent tertiary veins, and by its clustered inflorescence. In contrast, L. cubeba is characterized by chartaceous leaves, 8\–9 staminodes in the female flowers, subglobose fruits, and a small and flattened perianth tube and L. beddomei is distinguished by linear-oblong leaves with acute to attenuate base and abaxially inconspicuous tertiary veins, and by inflorescences arranged on 1\–5 cm long brachyblasts.

}, keywords = {Anamalai, Kerala, new species, Western Ghats}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.222.1.4}, author = {Robi, A.J. and George, Satheesh and Thushar, K.V.} }