taxonID	type	description	language	source
F2640A3A9737FF8CFFC107289D8C3B4D.taxon	materials_examined	Type: - INDIA. Tamil Nadu: Tirunelveli district, Vijayanarayanam, 40 m, 18 March 2012, M. G. Prasad & P. Sunojkumar CU 117880 (Holotype: CALI; Isotypes: CALI, MH).	en	Nayi, Tarun, Talwar, Taniya, Anand, Ashutosh (2024): New distributional record of Lindernia tamilnadensis M. G. Prasad & Sunojk from Central India. Species (e 9 s 1635) 25 (75): 1-5, DOI: 10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635, URL: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635
F2640A3A9737FF8CFFC107289D8C3B4D.taxon	description	Erect or procumbent tufted herb, up to 15 cm high, rooting from the basal nodes. Stem slender, weak, 4 - angled, glabrous, highly branched from the base; internodes about 2.5 cm long. Leaves sessile, 0.5 – 1.5 × 0.4 – 1.2 cm, ovate, base sub-cordate, apex acute or sometimes rounded, margins entire towards the older parts, 2 – 4 dentate towards the apex, glabrous, basally 3 – 5 nerved, veins distinct, lamina glandular punctate. Flowers pedicellate, axillary, solitary, alternately on leaf axils, one per node; pedicel slender, ca. 5 - 12 mm long, 4 - angled, glandular hairy; fruiting pedicel glabrous, erect. Calyx 2 – 2.5 mm long, deeply 5 - lobed, glandular hairy outside, glabrous within; lobes lanceolate, 1.5 – 2 × 0.3 – 0.5 mm, apex acute. Corolla 4 – 5 mm long, 2 - lipped, white with pale blue blotches on lower lip; corolla tube cylindrical, 3 – 4 mm long, glabrous; upper lip 1 × 1 mm, slightly emarginated at apex, glabrous; lower lip distinctly 3 - lobed, lobes 1 × 1 mm, rounded, glabrous. Perfect stamens 2, coherent below the upper lip, filaments ca. 1 mm long, glabrous, anthers 2 - lobed, lobes ovate, acute. Staminodes 2, linear, ca. 1 mm long, glandular hairy throughout, dense yellow glandular hairs at the base of filaments and corolla tube below, bluish towards apex, hairs 2 – 3 - celled, a distinct spur present just below the staminodal apex. Gynoecium 3 – 3.2 mm long; ovary 1.0 × 0.5 mm, bicarpellary, syncarpus ovary, ovate – acute, subglobose, glabrous; style 2 mm long, glabrous; stigma simple, bilobed. Capsule globose, 2.5 × 2 mm, glabrous, shiny, slightly exceeding the length of persistent calyx. Seeds numerous, minute, 0.3 × 0.15 mm, bended, golden yellowish, distinctly 5 - ridged.	en	Nayi, Tarun, Talwar, Taniya, Anand, Ashutosh (2024): New distributional record of Lindernia tamilnadensis M. G. Prasad & Sunojk from Central India. Species (e 9 s 1635) 25 (75): 1-5, DOI: 10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635, URL: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635
F2640A3A9737FF8CFFC107289D8C3B4D.taxon	biology_ecology	Flowering and Fruiting October – January.	en	Nayi, Tarun, Talwar, Taniya, Anand, Ashutosh (2024): New distributional record of Lindernia tamilnadensis M. G. Prasad & Sunojk from Central India. Species (e 9 s 1635) 25 (75): 1-5, DOI: 10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635, URL: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635
F2640A3A9737FF8CFFC107289D8C3B4D.taxon	distribution	Distribution Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat and now in Chhattisgarh.	en	Nayi, Tarun, Talwar, Taniya, Anand, Ashutosh (2024): New distributional record of Lindernia tamilnadensis M. G. Prasad & Sunojk from Central India. Species (e 9 s 1635) 25 (75): 1-5, DOI: 10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635, URL: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635
F2640A3A9737FF8CFFC107289D8C3B4D.taxon	biology_ecology	Habitat It is found in semi-aquatic habitats in sub-tropical, hot, and humid climate. Commonly seen on moist soil near the wetland.	en	Nayi, Tarun, Talwar, Taniya, Anand, Ashutosh (2024): New distributional record of Lindernia tamilnadensis M. G. Prasad & Sunojk from Central India. Species (e 9 s 1635) 25 (75): 1-5, DOI: 10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635, URL: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635
F2640A3A9737FF8CFFC107289D8C3B4D.taxon	materials_examined	Specimen Examined India, Chhattisgarh State, Bilaspur District, Kopra Reservoir, 22.061924 N, 82.04736 E, 263 M Elevation, 02 / 03 / 2024, TRN- 108.	en	Nayi, Tarun, Talwar, Taniya, Anand, Ashutosh (2024): New distributional record of Lindernia tamilnadensis M. G. Prasad & Sunojk from Central India. Species (e 9 s 1635) 25 (75): 1-5, DOI: 10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635, URL: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635
F2640A3A9737FF8CFFC107289D8C3B4D.taxon	discussion	Notes L. tamilnadensis is closely related to L. rotundifolia but differs mainly in comparatively smaller floral parts, in the absence of trichomes at the base of the anterior corolla lobes, the presence of staminodal appendages, undeflexed fruiting pedicels, and globose capsules.	en	Nayi, Tarun, Talwar, Taniya, Anand, Ashutosh (2024): New distributional record of Lindernia tamilnadensis M. G. Prasad & Sunojk from Central India. Species (e 9 s 1635) 25 (75): 1-5, DOI: 10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635, URL: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e9s1635
