identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03CE87AB085CFFD1CB5EFE83DD2FF949.text	03CE87AB085CFFD1CB5EFE83DD2FF949.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Argyreia manjolaiensis Karupp., Bharath & P. S. S. Rich. 2024	<div><p>Argyreia manjolaiensis Karupp., Bharath &amp; P.S.S.Rich., Fig. 1 &amp; 2 sp. nov.</p><p>Morphologically similar to A. fulgens Choisy but can be easily distinguished from 2–2.5 cm long petiole (vs. 3–7 cm long), a cordate lamina base (vs. rounded), a hairy abaxial surface of the lamina (vs. glabrous), 12 secondary veins (vs. 18–22), 10–12-flowered inflorescence (vs. 5–7-flowered), 3 bracts (vs. 2), subequal or unequal sepals (vs. equal) and a corolla tube that is pale purple at the base and milky white at the throat (vs. dark purple throughout). A detailed morphological comparison is provided in Table 1.</p><p>Type: INDIA, Tamil Nadu, Tirunelveli, Manimuthar falls, on the way to Manjolai, above 684 m, 20.08.2023, Karuppusamy, Bharath &amp; Richard 3121 (holo SGH!; iso MCCH! MH!).</p><p>A woody climbing shrub, grows up to 24 m or more. Stems terete, green, sericeous. Leaves dorsiventral, alternate; petioles terete, 2–2.5 cm long, green, sericeous as in stem, shallowly grooved; lamina ovate, 5.6–6.8 × 4–4.5 cm, base cordate, apex acute to acuminate, margins entire, ciliate, partially hairy adaxially, densely silvery shiny tomentose abaxially, secondary veins 12 pairs, raised prominently below. Inflorescence an axillary, 10–12-flowered, capitate cyme; peduncles 2.5 cm long, green, hairy like stem, slightly longer than petioles. Bracts 3; outer bract oblonglanceolate, 2–2.5 × 0.6 cm; inner two lanceolate or falcate, 1.5–1.8 × 0.4 cm, densely sericeous outside, except overlapped areas, hairy inside, minutely 5–9 veined inside, margins entire, apex acute. Flowers subsessile; pedicels c. 0.2 cm long, hairy. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, subequal or unequal; outer two narrow, 1–1.2 × c. 0.4 cm; inner three broad, c. 0.6 × 0.5 cm, margins entire, hyaline, apex acute, glabrous inside, sericeous all over outside except overlapped areas. Corolla infundibuliform, c. 5 cm long, c. 5 cm across, purple at the base, milky white near throat; tube dark purple inside, hairy on mid-petaline bands. Stamens 5, unequal, 3 short, 2 long; longer stamens c. 1.5 cm long; shorter stamens 0.8–1 cm long; filaments white, with few glandular trichomes at the base; anthers basifixed, c. 0.4 cm long. Ovary ovoid-ellipsoid, pale green, encircled by annular ring; style single, c. 1 cm long; stigma biglobose, white.Fruit a globose berry, 1.5–2 cm across, topped by remnant of style base, yellow when ripened. Seeds 4, ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.5–2 × 3.5–6 mm, white, glabrous.</p><p>Flowering &amp; Fruiting: Flowering from July to September; fruiting from August to November.</p><p>Ecology: The species occurs in tropical dry deciduous and semi-evergreen forests at elevantions of 450–600 m, inhabiting exposed areas of the forests and climbing over trees. Some of the associated taxa include Nothopegia heyneana (Hook.f.) Gamble, Semecarpus anacardium L.f. ( Anacardiaceae), Careya arborea Roxb. ( Lecythidaceae), Cleistanthus travancorensis Jabl. ( Phyllanthaceae), Filicium decipiens (Wight &amp; Arn.) Thwaites ( Sapindaceae), Grewia tiliifolia Vahl ( Malvaceae), Capparis diversifolia Wight &amp; Arn. ( Capparaceae), Strobilanthes parvifolia J.R.I.Wood ( Acanthaceae), Eugenia calcadensis Bedd. ( Myrtaceae), Terminalia anoegeissiana Gare &amp; Boatwr. ( Combretaceae), and Tectona grandis L.f. ( Verbenaceae).</p><p>Distribution: Presently known only from the type locality of Manimuthar waterfalls, on the way to Manjolai, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, India (Fig. 2).</p><p>Etymology: The new species is named after the type locality, Manjolai estate in Kalakadu-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve of southern Western Ghats.</p><p>Conservation status: Fewer than 25 mature individuals of Argyreia manjolaiensis, with an extent of occurrence (EOO) of 30 km 2, area of occupancy (AOO; AOO based on user defined cell width [3 km]) 63 km 2 have been found at the type locality. According to the latest IUCN conservation status assessment guidelines (IUCN Standards and Petitions Committee, 2024 ver. 2024-1), Argyreia manjolaiensis is provisionally assessed here as Critically Endangered (CR).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CE87AB085CFFD1CB5EFE83DD2FF949	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	P. B. S., Yadav;S., Karuppusamy;Richard, P. S. S.	P. B. S., Yadav, S., Karuppusamy, Richard, P. S. S. (2024): A new species of Argyreia (Convolvulaceae) from the southern Western Ghats, India. Rheedea 34 (5): 483-487, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2024.34.05.09
