identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
039FEC03FFCCFFCB161B73176EA8806A.text	039FEC03FFCCFFCB161B73176EA8806A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Syzygium hookeri M. V. Ramana, Chorghe & Venu 2014	<div><p>1. Syzygium hookeri M.V.Ramana, Chorghe &amp; Venu, sp. nov. — Fig. 1, 2</p><p>Type. M. V. Ramana 686 (holo CAL; iso BSID, PBL), India, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=93.01522&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.154027" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 93.01522/lat 13.154027)">Andaman Islands</a>, Saddle Peak National Park, Kalipur, N13°9'14.5" E93°00'54.8", alt. 586 m, 12 Feb. 2012 .</p><p>44 Blumea – Volume 59 / 1, 2014</p><p>a b c d e f g h i j k l o m n p q</p><p>Etymology. This new species is named in honour of Sir J.D. Hooker for his great contribution to the Flora of British India.</p><p>Shrub, 2–3 m high, 15–20 cm dbh. Branches subcylindrical, greyish when young, turning blackish when old, often laden with crustose lichens. Leaves simple, coriaceous, opposite subdecussate, elliptic-lanceolate, 3.5–5.5 by 1.5–3 cm, acutely-narrowed at base, entire to slightly revolute at margins, acute to acuminate at apex, lamina dark green above, pale beneath, blackish above, brownish beneath when dried, midrib impressed, sulcate above, raised beneath, secondary nerves 15–20 pairs, sunken, faintly visible beneath, ascending, joining close to margin forming a loop. Petioles 5–10 mm long. Reproductive seasonal growth unit usually completely leafless or with a pair of leaves at the base. Inflorescences on leafless twigs or terminal on short leafy lateral twigs, few-flowered and then simple or compound cymes, main axis 3–6 cm long; bracts and bracteoles minute, triangular, deciduous. Flowers not calyptrate, 1.5 by 2 cm long, showy, bright pinkish. Hypanthium cup-shaped, 5.6 by 6 mm, pinkish to pale yellow, not gland dotted, stipitate, the stipe 3.2 mm long. Sepals 4, nearly equal, very distant, semi circular, lacerate to entire, auriculate at base, 2.9 by 4.2 mm long, deciduous during anthesis. Petals 4, cohering into a pseudocalyptra, 4.4 by 3.5 mm, deciduous, inner 3 hooded, upper one hemispherical. Staminal disc unmodified. Stamens all fertile, numerous, bright pinkish, spreading, arising in three whorls, in 5–6 loosely aggregated bundles; filaments broad at base, narrowed towards tip, thick, 10–16 mm long, un- equal, glabrous; anther sacs parallel; anthers oblong dorsifixed, 0.8 by 0.7 mm, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, connective not glandular. Style 20 mm long at anthesis, persistent; stigma subulate. Placentation axile-median, the placenta uneven, one side peg like protruding into locule, the other side protruding. Ovules 6 per locule, spreading to ascending. Fruits not seen.</p><p>Distribution — India (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, North Andaman Islands, Saddle Peak National Park).</p><p>Habitat &amp; Ecology — Rocky bed slopes of mountain peaks.</p><p>Phenology — Flowering: February – March.</p><p>Additional specimen examined. INDIA, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=93.006775&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.155999" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 93.006775/lat 13.155999)">North Andaman Islands</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=93.006775&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.155999" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 93.006775/lat 13.155999)">Saddle Peak National Park</a>, Kalipur, M. V. Ramana 1289 (CAL), N13°09'21.6" E93°00'24.4", 698 m alt., 8 Apr. 2013 .</p><p>Conservation status — The present novelty is reported only from one locality with a small population of 5–6 individuals. There are no perceived threats, since it is reported from a protected area, either to the population or its habitat. This may be regarded under Data Deficient category as no information is available on its rarity or abundance (IUCN 2013).</p><p>Notes — The shrubby habit, subcylindrical branches, smaller leaves, bright pinkish flowers in simple or compound cymes from leafless twigs or terminal on short leafy lateral twigs, cup-shaped hypanthium, hooded or hemispherical petals and loosely aggregated 5–6 stamen bundles in three rows on hypanthium make it very distinctive from all the known species described in Indian floras (Hooker 1879, Parkinson 1923).</p><p>The authors also examined mountain shrubby species from British Burma (Kurz 1877) and Malaya Peninsula (Ridley 1922) for comparison. It resembles S. contractum Wall. from Myanmar (erstwhile Burma) in possessing pinkish non-calyptrate flowers, deciduous sepals, petals cohering into a pseudocalyptra, but differs from it in having subopposite decussate leaves (vs opposite decussate), lamina elliptic, ovate (vs linear-oblong), inflorescences simple or compound cymes on lateral leafy or leafless branchlets (vs terminal corymbs), hypanthium cup-shaped (vs funnel-shaped) and hooded or hemispherical petals (vs orbicular).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039FEC03FFCCFFCB161B73176EA8806A	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	Ramana, M. Venkat;Chorghe, A.;Venu, P.	Ramana, M. Venkat, Chorghe, A., Venu, P. (2014): Two new species of Syzygium (Myrtaceae) from Saddle Peak National Park, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Blumea 59 (1): 42-48, DOI: 10.3767/000651914X683593, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651914x683593
039FEC03FFCFFFCB161B74936A308078.text	039FEC03FFCFFFCB161B74936A308078.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Syzygium sanjappaiana M. V. Ramana 2014	<div><p>2. Syzygium sanjappaiana M.V.Ramana, sp. nov. — Fig. 3, 4</p><p>Type. M. V. Ramana 779 (holo CAL; iso BSID, PBL), India, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=92.96828&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.160305" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 92.96828/lat 13.160305)">North Andaman Islands</a>, Saddle Peak National Park, Kalpong River, N13°09'37.1" E92°58'05.8", 228 m alt., 20 Feb. 2012 .</p><p>Etymology. This new species is named after Dr. M. Sanjappa, for his contributions to the Legumes of India.</p><p>Small tree, 3–5 m tall, 25–30 cm dbh. Bark smooth, greyish with pink tinge. Branchlets previous year cylindrical, greyish white, young ones flattened; nodes thickened. Leaves simple, opposite, crowded near the apices of the branchlets, coriaceous, broadly elliptic to orbicular, obovate, 3.5–5 by 3–4 cm, acute at base, entire, slightly revolute at margins, acute, rounded, rarely obtuse at apex, turning black above, coppery below when dried, midrib sulcate above, raised beneath, secondary nerves 10–12 pairs, sunken on both the surfaces, looping near the margins, pellucid punctuate beneath. Petioles 3–6 mm long. Reproductive seasonal growth unit with vegetative and reproductive zones. Inflorescence usually in leaf axils, rarely terminal, 6–10-flowered, main axis 3–5 cm long, angular; bracteate, bracts minute, oblong, caducous; bracteoles absent. Flowers white, calyptrate (the calyptra formed from fused sepals only, the petals cohere to the calyptra and fall with it) sessile or stalked; the calyptra 4.6 by 4.6 mm. Hypanthium visibly pellucid punctuate, stipitate, obconic, 5.7 by 7.2 mm, the stipe 4.4 mm long. Petals 4, cohering into a pseudocalyptra, orbicular with a short claw, 4.9 by 4.1 mm, visibly pellucid punctuate, falling with calyptra. Staminal disc unmodified. Stamens all fertile, white, aggregated in bundles; filaments slender, 6–10 mm long; anther sacs parallel, oblong; anthers dorsifixed, 0.7 by 0.6 mm long, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, connective not glandular. Style 12.5 mm long at anthesis; stigma slightly bent. Placentation axile-basal, the placenta protruding into locule. Ovules 3–6 per locule, arranged spreading to ascending. Mature fruits spherical, sometimes partially flattened and grooved, sessile or stalked, pale pink to dark purple when ripe, 1.5 by 1.5 cm, crowned with a distinct c. 3 mm long calyx limb, pericarp dry, distinctly free from the seed. Seed one, without intrusive tissue interlocking the cotyledons.</p><p>Distribution — India (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, North Andaman Islands, Saddle Peak National Park).</p><p>Habitat &amp; Ecology — Banks of Kalpong River.</p><p>Phenology — Flowering and fruiting: January–May.</p><p>Additional specimen examined. INDIA, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=92.96831&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.168973" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 92.96831/lat 13.168973)">North Andaman Islands</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=92.96831&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.168973" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 92.96831/lat 13.168973)">Saddle Peak National Park</a>, Kalpong River, M. V. Ramana 1188 (CAL), N13°10'08.3" E92°58'05.9", 225 m alt., 18 Jan. 2012 .</p><p>Conservation status — The authors came across 4 small populations, each with not more than 3 individuals, on the Kalpong River bank in the National Park. The area is well protected with no perceived threats to the populations/habitats. The species may be treated under Data Deficient (DD) category IUCN (2013).</p><p>Note — The authors examined the new species for comparison with species that have commonality in showing suborbicular-rotund leaves with terminal and axillary inflorescences (Hooker 1879). The new species exhibits similarity with S. rotundifolium Arn. and S. sclerophyllum Thwaites (endem- ics to Sri Lanka) in broadly elliptic orbicular lamina, calyptrate flowers and globose berries with persistent enlarged calyx limb. But it is distinctive with smaller plants up to 5 m high (vs up to 10 m high), flattened young twigs (vs sharply quadrangular), longer petioles, 3–6 mm long (vs 1–3 mm long), few-flowered cymes mostly in leaf axils (vs many-flowered in terminal and axillary), visibly pellucid punctuate on under surface of leaf and floral parts (vs without pellucid punctuate), orbicular petals with short claw (vs elliptic-concave petals) and stamens up to 10 mm long (vs up to 4 mm long).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039FEC03FFCFFFCB161B74936A308078	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	Ramana, M. Venkat;Chorghe, A.;Venu, P.	Ramana, M. Venkat, Chorghe, A., Venu, P. (2014): Two new species of Syzygium (Myrtaceae) from Saddle Peak National Park, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Blumea 59 (1): 42-48, DOI: 10.3767/000651914X683593, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651914x683593
