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TABLE 1 in Stellaria mcclintockiae (Caryophyllaceae) a new species from Kerala, India
Authors/Creators
- 1. PG & Research Department of Botany, PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu - 641014, India
- 2. Government College Kasaragod, Kerala - 671123, India
- 3. Department of Botany, Government Victoria College, University of Calicut, Palakkad, Kerala - 678001, India
Description
TABLE 1. Morphological comparison of Stellaria mcclintockiae with other members of thee Stellaria media group.
| Characters | Stellaria mcclintockiae (present paper) | Stellaria cupaniana (El Mokni et al. 2023) | Stellaria media s.s. (El Mokni et al. 2023) | Stellaria neglecta (Lepší et al. 2019) | Stellaria pallida (Lepší et al. 2019; El Mokni et al. 2023) | Stellaria ruderalis (Lepší et al. 2019) |
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| Bract | lanceolate | Ovate to oblong | ovate | linear-lanceolate | ovate or elliptical | Ovate to elliptical, |
| Sepal | lanceolate exceeding the length of bract | ovate to lanceolate, equaling the length of bract | ovate to lanceolate, equal length of bract | ovate to lanceolate less than the length of bract | linear-lanceolate equal to the length of bract | lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, shorter than bract |
| Petal | dimorphic, with fimbriate apex and other with acute apex | shorter than sepals, apex obtuse | unimorphic, with rounded apex | unimorphic with acute or obtuse apex | Absent or very short, up to one-third of the length of sepals | deeply bifid, shorter than or as long as sepals, apex round |
| Gynoecium | ellipsoid | ovoid | ovoid | ovoid | ovoid | ovoid |
| Stamen | 5–8 | 5 | 8–10 | 8–10 | (1–) 2–3 (–4) | 3–5(–10) |
| Capsule | elongate, double the length of persistent calyx | ovoid, glabrous, dehiscent capsule with ca. 15 seeds | ovoid, equals the length of persistent calyx | elliptical, shorter than the persistent calyx | ovoid, equaling the length of persistent calyx | elongate, longer then the sepal |
| Seed | tubercles sharp, pointed, conical with scattered papillae | conical tubercles less than 0.10 mm long | tubercles short, flat topped with abundant papillae | tubercles on seeds high, conical, higher than wide. | tubercles on seeds shorts, round to shortly conical, long as wide or slightly longer than wide | tubercles conical, longer than wide |
| Pollen | pore membrane not well differentiated, pores obscure with granular surface | data not available | pore membrane prominent, pores sunken with spinulose surface | data not available | data not available | data not available |
Notes
Published as part of Arya, Sindhu, Kumar, Venugopalan Nair Saradamma Anil, Sojan, Jose, Philip, Alen Alex & Suresh, Veerankutty, 2024, Stellaria mcclintockiae (Caryophyllaceae) a new species from Kerala, India, pp. 58 in Phytotaxa 645 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.645.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13214862
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References
- Lepsi, M., Lepsi, P., Koutecky, P., Lucanova, M., Koutecka, E. & Kaplan, Z. (2019) Stellaria ruderalis, a new species in the Stellaria media group from central Europe. Preslia 91 (4): 391 - 420. https: // doi. org / 10.23855 / preslia. 2019.391