Wednesday, August 25, 2021

[Botany • 2021] Strobilanthes medahinnensis (Acanthaceae) • A New Species, based on Morphological and Molecular Data, from the Peak Wilderness Nature Reserve, Sri Lanka


Strobilanthes medahinnensis  
 
in Nilanthi, Samarakoon, Jayawardana, Wijesundara & Bandaranayake, 2021. 
 
Abstract
Strobilanthes medahinnensis, a new species of Acanthaceae is described and illustrated from Sri Lanka. The new species is similar to S. anceps in having ovate leaves, yellow gland dots of abaxial leaf surface and reflexed bracts but differs by rounded stem, leaves with acuminate apex, elongated spikes, lanceolate outermost bract with long acuminate apex. The establishment of the new species is supported by complete plastome genome analyses.

Keywords: chloroplast genome, barcoding, bract, habitat, distribution, Eudicots





Rajapakse Mudiyanselage Renuka Nilanthi, Hiruna Samarakoon, Nuwan Jayawardana, Siril Wijesundara and Pradeepa Chandani Gunathilake Bandaranayake. 2021. Strobilanthes medahinnensis (Acanthaceae) A New Species, based on Morphological and Molecular Data, from the Peak Wilderness Nature Reserve, Sri Lanka. Phytotaxa. 514(1); 26-38. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.514.1.2  

සමනල ස්වභාව රක්ෂිතයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික නව නෙළු විශේෂයක් (Strobilanthes medahinnensis)