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<mods:title>Chlorophytum sikkimense (Agavoideae; Asparagaceae): a new species from Sikkim Himalaya</mods:title>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[136,439,244,271]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Chlorophytum sikkimense</emphasis>
P.Rai
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[136,195,316,342]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Type</emphasis>
:—
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a.s.l,
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, collected in nature on
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; the herbarium specimen prepared from the living cultivated plant on
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(
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: acc. No 0302;
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,304,424,450]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Diagnosis</emphasis>
:—Most similar to
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<emphasis box="[524,683,424,450]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">C. assamicum</emphasis>
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but differs in rhizome reduced to disc (vs. horizontal), aristate and hairy fertile bract apex, angled pedicel jointed above middle, longitudinally dehiscing anther and white ovary.
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A perennial herb,
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tall growing solitarily or in clumps. Rhizome reduced to a disc,
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across, bearing numerous (100120) white fusiform fleshy roots ending with fibrous roots, 1030 ×
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. Cataphylls 12 without remnant of leaves external to them. Foliage leaves 711, rosulate, linear, sessile, 1056 ×
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, green, shiny above, pale greenish beneath with prominently 2834 veins, apex usually acute in outermost leaves and acuminate in inner leaves, margin entire to undulate, sub-hyaline, canaliculate. Scape solitary, bracteate,
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, including inflorescence, unbranched or occasionally branched up to 3 at the lowermost node of inflorescence, raceme to 1/3
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of the scape length. Inflorescence with 310 nodes per axis with 45 flowers at each node. Scape bract 1 or occasionally absent, linear, 6.57 ×
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, apex acuminate with mucro ca.
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long. Inflorescence sterile bract lanceolate, more rigid as compared to scape bract, 2.53 ×
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, apex acuminate with mucro
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long. Bract subtending floral node linear caducous, white basally and green apically, c. 7-nerved, 12.5 ×
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. Floral bract triangular, caducous, 24, c.
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long and
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across, veins obscure. Pedicel
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long, roughly quadrangular or trigonous, slightly twisted white and turning green when fruit is matured, jointed above middle, sometimes just beneath the base of perigone segments. Flowers white, faintly fragrant, pedicellate,
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across. Perigone segments 6, perpendicular to pedicel or reflexed on next day, 3 at inner and outer whorl each. Outer segments linear 1.21.4 ×
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, white, slightly greenish dorsally at apex, apex acute, veins inconspicuous; inner segments similar to outer ones, slightly smaller, apex acute. Stamens 6, introse, erect,
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long, filament slightly longer than anther; filaments
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long, white, tapering towards apex, smooth; anther yellow, basifixed,
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long, dehiscing through longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, white, globose or hemispherical,
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across, trigonous, glabrous; style slender, glabrous,
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long, exceeding stamens and declinate. Capsule green at maturity, trigonous, c.
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across, 3-sulcate, with 26 seeds in each locule. Seeds black, shiny, discoid, minor depression at middle,
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across; testa papillose, papillae blunt, minute and aggregated at middle.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,313,1252,1278]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Phenology</emphasis>
:—Flowering from May to July. Fruiting from June to November.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,481,1288,1314]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Distribution and habitat</emphasis>
:—
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<emphasis box="[517,806,1288,1314]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Chlorophytum sikkimense</emphasis>
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is currently known only from the
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locality. Plant was predominantly growing under bamboo (
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<emphasis box="[583,883,1324,1350]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Dendrocalamus hamiltonii</emphasis>
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) thickets on a well-drained loam of tropical mixed deciduous forest at an elevation of
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.
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Population of 53 individuals consisted of randomly scattered individuals over
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sq. km. Some individuals were growing in complete shade while other in partial shade and some in open areas. Higher plants were observed mostly in open or less shaded areas. Growing in home garden with relatively less shade resulted in bigger plants with branched scapes. The species was associated with
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<emphasis box="[1135,1452,1468,1494]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Amorphophallus napalensis</emphasis>
(Wall.) Bogner &amp; Mayo.
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,
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<emphasis box="[424,699,1504,1530]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Boesenbergia hamiltonii</emphasis>
Mood, S.Dey &amp; L.M. Prince
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,
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<emphasis box="[1039,1291,1505,1530]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Disporum cantoniense</emphasis>
(Lour.) Merr.
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,
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<emphasis box="[136,358,1540,1566]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Liparis plantaginea</emphasis>
Lindl.
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,
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<emphasis box="[445,648,1540,1566]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Malaxis khasyana</emphasis>
(Hook. f.) Kuntze.
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,
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<emphasis box="[874,1008,1540,1566]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">M. ophrydis</emphasis>
(Konig) Ormerod.
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, etc. The leafy shoot remains for about 6 months (late April to October) then dries up leaving rhizome and seeds are shed.
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<paragraph blockId="1.[136,1452,316,2071]" box="[189,1151,1612,1639]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,318,1612,1638]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Etymology</emphasis>
:—Species epithet is named after the Northeastern state of
<collectingCountry box="[977,1035,1612,1638]" name="India" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">India</collectingCountry>
<collectingRegion box="[1063,1148,1612,1638]" country="India" name="Sikkim" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Sikkim</collectingRegion>
.
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<subSubSection pageId="1" pageNumber="201" type="conservation">
<paragraph blockId="1.[136,1452,316,2071]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,631,1648,1674]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Proposed IUCN conservation status</emphasis>
:—The new species was found only in a single locality with ca. 150 individuals. Therefore, a tentative criteria for it is Endangered D (EN) according to IUCN Criteria (IUCN 2022).
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<subSubSection pageId="1" pageNumber="201" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="1.[136,1452,316,2071]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,483,1720,1746]" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Taxonomic relationships</emphasis>
:—
<taxonomicName authorityName="P. Rai. A. Habit. B. A" authorityYear="2022" box="[518,808,1720,1746]" class="Liliopsida" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Chlorophytum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="1" pageNumber="201" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sikkimense">
<emphasis box="[518,808,1720,1746]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">Chlorophytum sikkimense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is closer to
<taxonomicName authority="D. Borah &amp; A. P. Das" authorityName="D. Borah &amp; A. P. Das" box="[948,1345,1720,1747]" class="Liliopsida" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Chlorophytum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="1" pageNumber="201" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="assamicum">
<emphasis box="[948,1106,1720,1746]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">C. assamicum</emphasis>
D.Borah &amp; A.P. Das
</taxonomicName>
in
<bibRefCitation author="Borah, D. &amp; Kafley, P. &amp; Das, A. P. &amp; Tangjang, S. &amp; Averynov, L. V." pageId="1" pageNumber="201" pagination="123 - 125" refId="ref2327" refString="Borah, D., Kafley, P., Das, A. P., Tangjang, S. &amp; Averynov, L. V. (2019) Chlorophytum assamicum (Asparagaceae), a new species from Northeast India. Phytotaxa 394 (1): 123 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / phytotaxa. 394.1.12" type="journal article" year="2019">
Borah
<emphasis box="[136,196,1756,1782]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">et al.</emphasis>
(2019: 123)
</bibRefCitation>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Dalzell" authorityYear="1850" box="[401,579,1756,1782]" class="Liliopsida" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Chlorophytum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="1" pageNumber="201" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="breviscapum">
<emphasis box="[401,579,1756,1782]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">C. breviscapum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
because of plant and flower sizes, habit, habitat, unbranched scape shorter than leaves and reproductive period. It is also related to
<taxonomicName box="[791,950,1792,1818]" class="Liliopsida" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Chlorophytum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="1" pageNumber="201" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="assamicum">
<emphasis box="[791,950,1792,1818]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">C. assamicum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
due to the lack of tubers, presence of both scape and inflorescence sterile bracts and smooth filaments but differs in rhizome reduced to disc (vs. horizontal), aristate and hairy fertile bract apex (vs. acuminate and glabrous), angled pedicel jointed above middle (vs. cylindrical and jointless), longitudinally dehiscing anther (vs. dehiscing through apical pore) and white ovary (vs. greenish). It shares additional similarity also with
<taxonomicName authorityName="Dalzell" authorityYear="1850" box="[556,731,1936,1962]" class="Liliopsida" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Chlorophytum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="1" pageNumber="201" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="breviscapum">
<emphasis box="[556,731,1936,1962]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="201">C. breviscapum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with their rhizome that is reduced to disc, pedicel jointed above middle, anther dehiscing longitudinally and white ovary but differs due to absence of leaf remnants at plant base (vs. present), lack of tuber (vs. present), scape bract and inflorescence sterile bract present (vs. absence), pedicel angular (vs. cylindrical) and smooth filaments (vs. papillose). Differences amongst them are provided in
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.
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