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Ratheesh &amp; Sivadasan
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(in 
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Ratheesh Narayanan 
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), in morphology and sharing same ecological preferences. It differs mainly in having: glabrescent leaves, petioles, and hypanthia (
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. trichomes on adaxial surface of leaves and sparsely glandular petiole and hypanthia in 
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. cordate leaves with short acuminate apex and symmetric leaf bases); glabrous, compound scorpioid cyme with a terete peduncle (
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. hairy, unbranched scorpiod cyme with quadrangular, caniculated peduncle); glabrous and elliptic petals with short acuminate, green at the apex on the abaxial side (
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. ovate petals with trichomes on the abaxial side and pinkish at the apex on the adaxial side).
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Annual succulent herbs 
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tall. 
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hairy, 
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long. Tubers small, up to 
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diameter, creamy in colour. 
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fleshy, 3–5, glabrous; petiole 
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long, adaxially grooved, glabrous; blade ovate, 2.1–4 × 
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, base cordate, with unequal margins, green with pink tinge below, margins finely serrate, long acuminate at apex, prominently 7-nerved, with a pair of obscure nerves near the margin, all nerves are emerging from base. 
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a branched scorpioid cyme, 3–4-branched, 6–14 flowers in each branch. Peduncle cylindrical,, 
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long, glabrous, light green; leafy bracts 0.1–0.3 × ca. 
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, bracteoles narrow linear, 
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, light green. Hypanthium campanulate, 
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. Stamens 3; filaments 
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long, glabrous, light pink; anthers 
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, glabrous, base cordate, apex acuminate, yellow. Style 
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long, straight, dark-pink towards apex. Stigma crowned, glabrous. 
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a loculicide capsule, campanulate, 0.4–0.8 × ca. 
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, pinkish-green, polyspermic. Seeds, ca. 0.8 × 
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, brown, testa tuberculate. Flowering and fruiting in July - September.
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAA988FBA904FEFB8F" bold="true" box="[189,487,1072,1098]" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">Distribution and Habitat</emphasis>
:—Found in moist rocks of shola margins at elevations of 
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, in Wayanad forests of Western Ghats, 
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. This species grows in the crevices of rocks and leaf litter in association with 
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAAC01FBCD041BFB57" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">Coelogyne breviscapa</emphasis>
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, 
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAA8DCFBE107FBFB57" box="[489,738,1144,1170]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">Plectranthus saxorum</emphasis>
J.Mathew, Yohannan &amp; B.J.Conn (2017: 187)
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, and 
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAAC0BFBE105ECFB73" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">Medinilla beddomei</emphasis>
C.B. 
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.
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAA988FB590427FB1F" bold="true" box="[189,318,1216,1242]" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">Etymology</emphasis>
:—The specific epithet ‘ 
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honors Dr. Sulphey M.M. (Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, 
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) a renowned educator and environmentalist, in recognition of his valuable contributions to research on pedagogy and ecology.
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAA988FAB504B2FA83" bold="true" box="[189,427,1324,1350]" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">Conservation status</emphasis>
:—The distribution is limited to a few plants at three known locations (each with ca. 25–65 plants). Its area of occupancy is &lt;
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. The threat status of this species has been assigned as Critically Endangered’ (CR 1ab and 2ab) as per the guidelines of 
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. Moreover, further surveys for this species are suggested.
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAA988FA010419FA77" bold="true" box="[189,256,1432,1458]" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">Notes</emphasis>
:—The branched inflorescence of 
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAAB5BFA010634FA77" box="[622,813,1432,1458]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">Sonerila sulpheyi</emphasis>
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is an unusual character in the acaulescent group of 
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<taxonomicName id="6AE14292EC7EFFFAAC70FA0100BEFA77" authorityName="Roxburgh" authorityYear="1820" box="[1349,1447,1432,1458]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Sonerila" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="1" pageNumber="77" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Sonerila</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
This new species is morphologically similar to 
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAAB92FA250627FA13" box="[679,830,1468,1494]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">S. gadgiliana</emphasis>
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and 
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<taxonomicName id="6AE14292EC7EFFFAAA4DFA250103FA13" box="[888,1050,1468,1494]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Sonerila" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="1" pageNumber="77" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="vythiriensis">S. vythiriensis</taxonomicName>
,
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but it can be readily distinguished from each other (see diagnosis and 
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.). 
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<emphasis id="9F95E503EC7EFFFAABB4FA79065AFA3F" box="[641,835,1504,1530]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="77">Sonerila sulpheyi</emphasis>
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also shares some vegetative morphological similarities with 
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Murugesan, V.Ravichandran &amp; Murugan (2019: 59)
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, such as the glabrescent plants and pink flowers. 
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is readily separated for having 7-nerved leaves (
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3–5-nerved in 
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) and 6–14-flowered compound inflorescence (
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. 1–4-flowered simple inflorescence).
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