taxonID	type	description	language	source
03A4DB7EE23EFF8B9EC865EC84B49A9D.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — SRI LANKA (Ceylon), 1838, Thwaites CP 6 (P 02440400, P!, neotype designated here; isoneotypes at P, K, W!). Description: — Dassanayake (1999: 184). Erect undershrub up to 120 cm tall, profusely branching with forked stems and branches often in whorls, forming rosette leaves. Young stems glandular pubescent with a zone of retrorse hairs below each rosette of leaves. Leaves with 10 – 25 jugate; basal 1.5 – 2 × 1.5 – 2 mm, ovate – deltoid, median 3 – 12 × 3 – 7 mm, oblong, terminal 6 – 12 × 4 – 8 mm broadly ovate, slightly overlapping. Petiole 5 – 10 mm long, reddish glandular pubescent. Rachis 2.5 – 8 cm, glandular pubescent. Peduncle axillary, 3.5 – 5.5 cm long, densely glandular hairy. Bracts 2 mm long, narrowly ovate, ciliate; bracteole 1 mm long deltoid, glandular pubescent. Pedicel 4 – 6 mm, glandular pubescent; sepals 3 – 4 mm long green with 5 veins; petals 9 – 10 mm long, spathulate, rounded at apex; stamen 10, longer filaments 2.5 – 3.5 mm, pubescent; shorter filaments 1 – 1.5 mm, glabrous; pistil 3 – 5 mm long, ovary deeply furrowed, style glandular pubescent, stigma shortly branched; seeds 1 mm long, brown, ovoid, tubercled. The major differences between Biophytum intermedium and B. madurense are given below:	en	Daniel, Jisha, Kumar, Ettickal Sukumaran Santhosh, Rajendraprasad, Madhavan, Decruse, Sabarimuthan William (2024): Taxonomic and Nomenclatural notes on Biophytum madurense, B. intermedium and B. intermedium var. pulneyense (Oxalidaceae) from South India. Phytotaxa 663 (4): 240-246, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.663.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.663.4.6
