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<mods:title>Murdannia saddlepeakensis (Commelinaceae) - a new species from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Ramana, M. Venkat</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Nandikar, Mayur</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Gurav, R. V.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Johny Kumar Tagore,</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>M. Sanjappa,</mods:namePart>
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="10">Type.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="10">India</emphasis>
. North Andaman: Saddle Peak National Park, open scrub forests (
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), 
<geoCoordinate degrees="13" direction="north" minutes="09" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="13.15">13°09'N</geoCoordinate>
, 
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, at 508 m, 18 November 2011, M.V.Ramana 
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(holotype: CAL; isotypes: US, BSI, SUK, PBL).
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="10">Description.</paragraph>
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Erect, 40-60 cm high, glabrous perennial with a basal rosette of leaves (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Murdannia saddlepeakensis A Habitat (a view of Saddle Peak National Park) B Habit C Flower, ventral view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10230" pageId="1" pageNumber="10">Fig. 1-B</figureCitation>
); roots fibrous, 2-4 cm long and 2 mm in diam. Leaves rosette, sheaths 0.5-1 cm long, lamina narrowly linear, 20-60 cm long, 0.4-0.8 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded merged into the sheath, margins entire; cauline leaves with sheaths 0.2-2 cm long, glabrous, narrowly lanceolate to linear, 1-25 cm long, 0.2-0.5 mm wide, base rounded, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous, margin entire, often scabrid; flowering shoot terminal in the basal rosette, erect, 20-40 cm long, unbranched or rarely branched from apically reduced cauline leaves (a bract). Inflorescence terminal and axillary (from uppermost foliaceous bract) of peduncled cincinni (
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); peduncles 2-7 cm long, glabrous, cincinni to 2 cm long, few flowered, bracteoles 5 mm long, caducous. Flowers bisexual (
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; 
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), c. 1.5 cm wide, opening 1230-1600 hr; pedicels (2-) 3-5 mm long (not declinate in capsule); sepals elliptic to oblong elliptic, 5-6 mm long, pale white to green; petals ovate to obovate, lilac to pale lavender; stamens 2 (
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), filaments densely bearded, (3-) 4 mm long, anthers elliptic, c. 1 mm long; staminodes 3 (
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), antepetalous with glabrous to sparsely bearded filaments, antherodes tri-lobed, yellow; one rudimentary stamen, antisepalous 
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) with densely bearded filament ending with sterile knob; ovary glabrous; style recurved towards staminodes, (3-)4 mm long; stigma simple. Capsule subglobose, 4-5 mm long, 3 mm wide, locules 1-seeded. Seeds (
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) elliptic or rarely ovoid, 
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-5 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, testa scorbiculate on all surfaces, the depressions often partially uniting on the dorsal surface, forming a little larger, irregular depressions, dark brown, hilum linear or oblong-linear, embryotega dorsal-semidorsal, farinose sparsely in all depressions and around the embryotega.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Figure 1.</emphasis>
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Habitat (a view of Saddle Peak National Park) 
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Habit 
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Flower, ventral view.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">A</emphasis>
Habit 
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Inflorescence 
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Flower, ventral view 
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Flower, lateral view 
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Stamen 
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Rudimentary stamen 
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Staminode 
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Pistil 
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Capsule 
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Seed, lateral view 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">K</emphasis>
Seed, ventral view. All from 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">M V Ramana 0550</emphasis>
. Drawn by Mayur Nandikar
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="12">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
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is so far only known from Saddle Peak National Park, North Andaman Islands, India.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Ecology.</paragraph>
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It grows in an open scrub forest in rocky situations at an elevation of 508 m. The common associates are 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Sonerila andamanensis</emphasis>
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Stapf &amp; King (Melastomataceae), 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Ophiorrhiza mungos</emphasis>
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L.(Rubiaceae) and 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Gomphostemma javanicum</emphasis>
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(Blume)Benth. (Lamiaceae). It was observed flowering and fruiting from October to February.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Etymology.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
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is named after the type locality Saddle Peak National Park. It is the highest peak of the entire archipelago, reaching an altitude of 732 m.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="12">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
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was collected only once from the Saddle Peak National Park (North Andaman Islands). At this site c. 25 individuals in an open scrub forest in rocky situations were observed and hence it is assumed to be rare. However, larger part of the National Park is unexplored due to human inaccessibility. Therefore, the species can be accessed as &quot;Data Deficient&quot; (DD), using the criteria of 
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.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Discussion.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
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belongs to the group 
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G. 
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. (173: 1830) [Inflorescence terminal, many-flowered, the main shoot and lateral flowering shoots few to several, shortened, completely tufted]. In India, series 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Terminatae</emphasis>
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is represented by eight species viz. 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia dimorpha</emphasis>
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G. 
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., 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia divergens</emphasis>
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(C.B. Clarke) G. 
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., 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia hookeri</emphasis>
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(C.B. Clarke) G. 
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., 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia japonica</emphasis>
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(Thunb.) Faden, 
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(Vahl) G. 
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., 
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(Hassk.) R.S. Rao &amp; Kammathy, 
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(L.) Brenan and 
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(Vahl) Brenan (modified after 
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. 1930). The first four species have more than two seeds per locule and rest four have two seeds per locule while 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has single seed per locule.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="12">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
closely resembles 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia simplex</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but can be easily distinguished by its narrow linear leaves, terminal flowering shoot in the basal rosette, glabrous leaf sheaths, single seeded locule, elliptic seed with scorbiculate surface. In addition, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is restricted to northern Andaman Island whereas 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia simplex</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is much more wide spread in Tropical Africa and Asia. 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia gigantea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with a terminal flowering shoot also is similar to 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but differs in having thick, fibrous roots, broad leaves, three stamens and seeds with dorsal embryotega. 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can also be mistaken for the widespread 
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Murdannia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Commelinales" pageId="3" pageNumber="12" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="loriformis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia loriformis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in general. However, the presence of erect, terminal flowering shoot and scorbiculate, single seeded locule along with anthesis by noon supports its distinctness.
</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="14" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">
<bibRefCitation author="Pandey, RP" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Economic &amp; Taxonomic Botany" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" pagination="403 - 500" refId="B10" refString="Pandey, RP, Diwakar, PG, 2008. An integrated checklist flora of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Journal of Economic &amp; Taxonomic Botany 32: 403 - 500" title="An integrated checklist flora of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India." volume="32" year="2008">Pandey and Diwakar (2008)</bibRefCitation>
recorded five species of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands namely 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia crocea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Griff.) Faden subsp. 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">crocea, M. gigantea</emphasis>
(Vahl) G. 
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., 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">M. nudiflora</emphasis>
(L.) Brenan, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">M. spirata</emphasis>
(L.) G. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Brückn">Brueckn</normalizedToken>
. and 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia vaginata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(L.) G. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Brückn">Brueckn</normalizedToken>
.The occurrence of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">Murdannia crocea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Griff.) Faden subsp. 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="12">crocea</emphasis>
from Andaman seems to be erroneous as the screening of herbarium specimens at Kew 
<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="13" start="start">have</pageBreakToken>
revealed that 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="13">Murdannia crocea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
subsp. 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="13">crocea</emphasis>
is known only from Myanmar, Tenasserim [
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="13">Herb. Helfer 5497</emphasis>
(K!)]. No one has reported this species till from India after 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Helfer’s">Helfer's</normalizedToken>
collection. A key for the species of the genus 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="13">Murdannia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in Andaman and Nicobar 
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and closely related taxa of the new species is given below to facilitate identification(modified after 
<bibRefCitation author="Faden, RB" editor="Dassanayake, MD" journalOrPublisher="Oxford &amp; IBH Publishing, New Delhi" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" pagination="140 - 171" refId="B2" refString="Faden, RB, 2000. Commelinaceae. In: Dassanayake, MD, Clayton, W, Eds., A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. Oxford &amp; IBH Publishing, New Delhi: 140 - 171" title="Commelinaceae." volumeTitle="A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon." year="2000">Faden 2000</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">1</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Plants with basal rosette leaves</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">2</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Plants without basal rosette leaves</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">5</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">2</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Rosette leaves 0.4-0.8 cm wide; capsule subglobose; locule one seeded</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName authorityName="M. V. Ramana &amp; Nandikar" authorityYear="2013" class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Murdannia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Commelinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="saddlepeakensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="14">Murdannia saddlepeakensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Rosette leaves (0.5-) 0.8-1.5 cm wide; capsule ovoid to ellipsoid; locule two seeded</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">3</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">3</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">
Flowering shoots terminal in the rosette; seeds ovoid to ellipsoid, 2.5-4 
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2-2.5 mm, hilum linear
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Murdannia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Commelinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="gigantea">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="14">Murdannia gigantea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">
Flowering shoots lateral in the rosette; seeds ovoid to obovoid, 1.6-2 
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1.5 mm, hilum linear to oblong
</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">4</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">4</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Pedicels 3-5 mm long; seeds 1.5-2 mm long; flowers 12-15 mm wide, opening after noon</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Murdannia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Commelinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="simplex">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="14">Murdannia simplex</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Pedicels 2-3 mm long; seeds 1.4-1.8 mm long; flowers 9-12 mm wide, fading by noon</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Murdannia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Commelinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="loriformis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="14">Murdannia loriformis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">5</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Leaves subtending inflorescence bract-like; capsule globose; locule one seeded</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Murdannia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Commelinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="vaginata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="14">Murdannia vaginata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Leaves not subtending inflorescence bract-like; capsule ovoid to obovoid or elliptic; locule more than 2 seeded</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">6</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">6</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong; seeds 2 per locule</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Murdannia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Commelinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="nudiflora">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="14">Murdannia nudiflora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="5" pageNumber="14">
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">Leaves lanceolate to ovate; seeds 3-7 per locule</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Murdannia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Commelinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="14" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="spirata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="14">Murdannia spirata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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