Shivparvatia Pusalkar & D.K.Singh (2015: 81)

Rabeler, Richard K., 2017, New combinations and typification in Shivparvatia (Alsineae, Caryophyllaceae), Phytotaxa 303 (3), pp. 293-296 : 294

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.303.3.11
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scientific name	Shivparvatia Pusalkar & D.K.Singh (2015: 81)
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Shivparvatia Pusalkar & D.K.Singh (2015: 81) View in CoL .

Type:— Shivparvatia glanduligera (Edgeworth in Hooker 1874: 240) Pusalkar & D. K.Singh (2015: 84). = Solitaria (McNeill) Sadeghian & Zarre (2015: 667) , nom. inval.; Dichodon (Bartling ex Reichenbach 1832: 785) Reichenbach (1841:

205) sect. Sikkimensis ( F. N.Williams) Ikonnikov (1976: 116); Arenaria subg. Solitariae McNeill (1962: 128) ; Arenaria sect.

Sikkimenses F.N. Williams (1895: 600). Type:— Solitaria ciliolata View in CoL (Edgeworth in Hooker 1874: 240) Sadeghian & Zarre (2015: 667)

Description:— Herbs perennial, sometimes densely branched, laxly cespitose, never pulvinate. Stems clustered and short. Leaf blades lanceolate to ovate-orbicular, remote or sometimes overlapping, but never imbricate in four rows, narrowed at base, margin usually somewhat hard and thickened. Flowers solitary, rarely in pairs, terminal, showy. Sepals linear or lanceolate, elliptic, to narrowly orbicular, veins indistinct, margin membranous and hardened (scarious in S. glanduligera (Edgeworth) Pusalkar & D.K.Singh , apex acute, acuminate, or obtuse. Petals white, pink, or violet, (1−) 1.5−2 times as long as sepals, obovate to obovate-elliptic. Stamens 10. Styles 3. Capsules ovoid, shorter than calyx, 6-valved or 6-toothed. Seven species distributed in Asia.