Validation of the name Osbeckia tirunelvelica (Melastomataceae)
Author
Kottaimuthu, Ramalingam
Department of Botany, Saraswathi Narayanan College, Madurai- 625 022, Tamil Nadu, India;
Author
Gnanasekaran, Gunadayalan
Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Coimbatore 614 003, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Phytotaxa
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Osbeckia tirunelvelica
Murugan & Manickam ex Kottaim. & Gnanasek.
,
sp. nov.
Osbeckia tirunelvelica
Murugan &
Manickam (2001: 626)
,
nom. inval.
Type:
—
INDIA
:
Tamil Nadu
: Tirunelveli District, Manjolai hills, Road below Manjolai,
Manickam & Murugan
XCH
15109 (
holotype
XCH
!).
Description
:—Murugan &
Manickam (2001)
: 626).
Etymology:
—This species named after the
type
locality, Tirunelveli Hills,
Tamil Nadu
,
India
.
Distribution:
—Endemic of
India
(
Tamil Nadu
: Tirunelveli Hills).