identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03BD87F38131FFC869B0F90ADB03FC05.text	03BD87F38131FFC869B0F90ADB03FC05.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lindernia tamilnadensis M. G. Prasad & Sunojk. 2014	<div><p>Lindernia tamilnadensis M.G. Prasad &amp; Sunojk.,  sp. nov. (Fig. 1)</p><p>Diagnosis:—  Lindernia tamilnadensis is 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.</p><p>Type: —   INDIA. Tamil Nadu: Tirunelveli district,  Vijayanarayanam, 40 m, 18 March 2012, M.G. Prasad &amp; P. Sunojkumar CU117880 (Holotype: CALI ;  Isotypes: CALI,  MH).</p><p>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 subcordate, 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. 4–8 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, 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.</p><p>Flowering and fruiting: — October–March.</p><p>Distribution and ecology: — Semi-aquatic herb found up to now only in the dry scrub forest areas of Vijayanarayanam in Tamil Nadu, growing on wet soils around the occasional pools soon after the rainy season. It is often found intermingled with several other herbs such as  Striga angustifolia (Don, David) Saldanha (1963:70),  Basilicum polystachyon (Linnaeus) Moench (1802:143),  Limnophila indica (Linnaeus) Druce (1914:420) and  Stemodia viscosa Roxburgh (1802:33) .</p><p>Etymology: — The species is named after the South Indian state Tamil Nadu from where the specimens were originally collected.</p><p>Additional Specimens Examined: —  INDIA. Tamil Nadu: Tirunelveli district, Vijayanarayanam, 40 m, 2 April 2012, M.G. Prasad &amp; P. Sunojkumar CU117880 (CALI);   Tirunelveli district,  South Vijayanarayanam, 40 m, 9 March 2011, M.G. Prasad &amp; P. Sunojkumar CU88160 (CALI)  .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BD87F38131FFC869B0F90ADB03FC05	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Prasad, Mangavayal Govindan;Sunojkumar, Purayidathkandy	Prasad, Mangavayal Govindan, Sunojkumar, Purayidathkandy (2014): A new species of Lindernia (Linderniaceae) from India. Phytotaxa 162 (1): 57-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.162.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.162.1.6
