Torenia godefroyi Bonati (1908: 514)

Pal, Aaratrik & Chowdhury, Monoranjan, 2022, Torenia hookeri, a new combination in Asian Linderniaceae and first record of T. godefroyi in the Himalayan hotspot, Phytotaxa 549 (2), pp. 230-234 : 232-233

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.549.2.8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6625713
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scientific name	Torenia godefroyi Bonati (1908: 514)
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Torenia godefroyi Bonati (1908: 514) View in CoL

≡ Lindernia crustacea (Linnaeus 1867: 87) Mueller (1882: 97) var. godefroyi ( Bonati 1908: 514) Yamazaki (1981: 37) View in CoL . ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 & 3 View FIGURE 3 )

Lectotype:— Cambodia. Compon Chuang, 1875, Godefroyi 186 ( P [ P00586632 !]) .

Torenia godefroyi var. filiformis Bonati (1908: 514) View in CoL . Type:— Cambodia, sine loc., 1875, Godefroyi View in CoL s.n. (P [P00586631!]).

Torenia lindernioides Saldanha (1966: 129) View in CoL . Type:— India, Karnataka, Dandelli, N. Kanara, May 1919, Sedgwick 2511 (BLAT).

T. godefroyi ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ) is very similar to T. crustacea Chamisso & Schlechtendal (1827: 570) . However, T. godefroyi can be easily differentiated from T. crustacea by its distinctly 5-winged calyx, enclosing the capsule completely ( Prasad et al., 2017). During this study, the species was recorded from four localities, covering a stretch of 120 km 2 area ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ). Several healthy populations of T. godefroyi , even when T. crustacea started disappearing in early winter, were observed (except for some river beds, where both the species were present). We estimated the Extent of Occurrence of 3,907,923.579 km 2 using GeoCat ( Bachman et al. 2011) which is much greater than 20,000 km ² to be listed as any threatened category ( IUCN 2019). We also did not find any potential threat for the species as it shares different types of habitats. So, we preliminary assess the IUCN status of this species as Least Concern.

Distribution, habitat and ecology:— India (Western Ghats and West Bengal), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. Recently recorded from different habitats: bare marshy lands, sandy river beds, shaded forest edges, etc.

Phenology:— Flowering and fruiting recorded from July to May.

Specimen examined:— INDIA. West Bengal: Darjeeling district, Siliguri, Raja Rammohunpur, 26°42′36.92″N, 88°21′13.92″E, 22 Jan 2021, LIND 20210122A (NBU); Darjeeling District (NBU).

References

Bachman, S., Moat, J., Hill, A. W., de la Torre, J. & Scott, B. (2011) Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool. ZooKeys 150: 117 - 126. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 150.2109

Bonati, G. (1908) Scrofularinees nouvelles de l'Indo-Chine. Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de France 55 (7): 509 - 515. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00378941.1908.10832011

Chamisso, L. K. A. & Schlechtendal, F. L. (1827) De plantis in expeditione speculatoria romanzoffiana observatis dissere pergunt: Scrophulariaceae. Linnaea 2 (4): 570.

IUCN Standards and Petitions Committee. (2019) Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 14. Prepared by the Standards and Petitions Committee. Available from: http: // www. iucnredlist. org / documents / RedListGuidelines. pdf (accessed 18 April 2021)

Mueller, F. v. (1882) Systematic census of Australian plants. Melbourne. pp. 1 - 152.

Prasad, M. G., Roy, P. K. & Sunojkumar, P. (2017) Re-establishment of the overlooked species Torenia godefroyi (Linderniaceae), and notes on the identity of T. lindernioides. Nordic Journal of Botany 35 (1): 45 - 47. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / njb. 01397

Saldanha, C. J. (1966) The genus Torenia Linn. in Western Peninsular India. Bulletin of Botanical Survey of India 8: 126 - 136.

Yamazaki, T. (1981) Revision of the Indo-Chinese species of Lindernia All. (Scrophulariaceae). Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Section III 13: 1 - 64.