A NEW PLANT SPECIES DISCOVERED IN WESTERN GHATS

* TETRATAENIUM MANILALIANUM, A NEW PLANT SPECIES HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN WESTERN GHATS 

* REASERCH BY AMRUTHA SUNDARAN &  K A SUJANA From BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, COIMBATORE AND ANOTHER TEAM FROM KERALA 

* IT IS A HERBACEOUS PLANT, 60-100 cm TALL 

* THIS PLANT IS DISTINGUISHED FROM ITS CLOSE RELATIVE T,SPRENGELIANUM 

* THIS SPECIES epithet - MANILALIANUM ( COMMEMORATE THE LATE PADMASHRI PROF K S MANILAL ( TAXONOMIST & HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT) 

A NEW PLANT SPECIES FOUND IN KARNATAKA

*  A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS LED BY BOTANIST PROFESOR DR K KOTRESHA FROM KARNATAKA SCIENCE COLLEGE, DHARWAD HAVE DISCOVERED 4 NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS IN WESTERN GHATS, KARNATAKA.

* ZEUXINE SEETHARAMII 

* OBERONIA MARNKULIENSIS 

* PARASOPUBIA GORENSIS ( NAMED AFTER GODDESS GORESHWAR TEMPLE) 

* UTRICULARIA KUMTENSIS

( THE PLANT SPECIES HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AT KALI TIGER RESERVE IN UTTARA KANNADA DISTRICT HAS BEEN NAMED ZEUXINE SEETHARAMII ( BETAGERI & KOTRESHA) 

A NEW PLANT SPECIES FOUND IN WESTERN GHATS

* A NEW PLANT SPECIES EUGENIA CRUCIFORMIS (MYRTACEAE) FOUND IN WESTERN GHATS.

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