Tuesday, March 22, 2022

[Botany • 2018] Ceropegia boonjarasii (Apocynaceae: Asclepiodoideae) • A New Species from eastern Thailand


Ceropegia boonjarasii Kidyoo, 

in Kidyoo, 2018. 

Abstract
Ceropegia boonjarasii Kidyoo, a new species from eastern Thailand is here described, illustrated and compared morphologically and ecologically to C. sootepensis Craib and C. laotica Rodda & Meve, its putative close relatives. These three species display clear differences in habitat choice, hairiness of leaf surface and corolla lobes, and in the shape of interstaminal corona segments.

Keywords: Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae, eastern Thailand, open sandy area, Eudicots




Manit Kidyoo. 2018.  A New Species of Ceropegia (Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae) from eastern Thailand. Phytotaxa. 385(1); 31–36. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.385.1.4