identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
EC2E87D3FFC4825FD8FFFCF1FCCEFEF1.text	EC2E87D3FFC4825FD8FFFCF1FCCEFEF1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Symplocos sisparensis B. Karthik, Murug., Anusuba, Premkumar & R. Tharani 2023	<div><p>Symplocos sisparensis B. Karthik, Murug., Anusuba, Premkumar &amp; R. Tharani, sp. nov. (Figure 1)</p><p>Type:— INDIA. Tamil Nadu: The Nilgiris Distr., Way to <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=76.48708&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.253872" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 76.48708/lat 11.253872)">Nadugani-Mukurthi National Park</a>, 11°15′13.94″ N, 76°29′13.50″ E, ± 2223 m, 29.11.2022, M . Murugesan &amp; B . Karthik 148115 (Holotype MH; Isotypes MH) .</p><p>Diagnosis:— Small tree with glabrous branches (vs medium to large tree with villous branches); leaf margins crenulate, each crenulate tooth with a blunt tip, glabrous abaxially with 4–6 pairs of lateral veins (vs leaf margins serrulate, each serrulate tooth with sharp tip, midrib sparsely long-hairy with 7–13 pairs of lateral veins); calyx lobes equal, glabrous and pinkish along margins, hairy in middle of abaxial side (vs calyx lobes unequal, glabrous or sparsely appressed-hairy, greenish along margins); style hairy, curved and constricted at middle (vs style glabrous except at base, style curved without constriction); fruits 7–10 mm long, globose or cylindrical to ellipsoid with blunt apex (vs fruits 1.2–1.4 cm long, broadly cylindrical to ellipsoid or oblongoid, truncate at ends) (Figure 3).</p><p>Description</p><p>Large shrub to small tree, up to 4 m high. Bark grey, young branchlets light greenish yellow, glabrous, covered with pulvinate leaf scars, twigs have discontinuous growth. Leaves simple, alternate-spiral, exstipulate; lamina 5–9 × 2–3.5 cm, elliptic, shortly attenuate towards base, crenulate along margin, acute-acuminate at apex, mid vein prominent abaxially, impressed adaxially, secondary veins abaxially prominent, lateral veins 4–6-pair, convergent towards apex with intramarginal venation, terminal vegetative juvenile leaves abaxially pubescent also covered by bract-like scales, densely pubescent abaxially. Petioles 1–1.5 cm long, brown, canaliculate near the base on adaxial side, glabrous. Inflorescence in axillary spikes on young and rarely on mature branches; sometimes flowers subsessile. Peduncles 1–5 cm long, pubescent at flowering, glabrescent during fruiting. Bracts 3.5–4.5 × 2.5–3 mm, ovate to cymbiform. Bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, 1–2 × 1–1.5 mm, caducous, brown, acute at apex, truncate at base, ciliate along margin, concave, appressed sericeous adaxially, glabrous abaxially. Flowers 3–9 in cluster on a spike, 6–7.5 × 7–8 mm. Calyx tube green, ca. 2 mm long, glabrous, 5-lobed; lobes deltoid, 1–1.5 × 1–1.5 mm, glabrous and green to pinkish at margins, sparsely hairy from middle to apex abaxially. Corolla white, 3–4.5 × 3–3.5 mm, deeply 5-lobed; lobes connate at base, elliptic, obtuse or subobtuse at apex, 5-veined. Stamens 55–70 in 4 or 5 irregular series, uppermost series extending beyond corolla, 1–6 mm long; filaments equally wide from base to apex; anthers ca. 1 mm long. Style 2–3 mm long, shorter than corolla, constricted at middle; stigma capitate. Disk 5-glandular, stellate-hairy. Fruits 7–10 × 4–6 mm, globose or cylindrical to ellipsoid with blunt apex, not grooved.</p><p>Flowering &amp; Fruiting: October–December.</p><p>Etymology: The new species named after the type locality, Sispara Ghats of Mukurthi National Park, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.</p><p>Habitat &amp; Ecology: Daphniphyllum neilgherrense (Wight) Rosenthal (1919: 7), Eurya nitida Korthals (1841: 115), Hedyotis sisaparensis Gage (1906: 244), Berberis nilghiriensis Ahrendt (1945: 1), Rhodomyrtus tomentosa (Aiton) Hasskarl (1842: 35), Rubus ellipticus Smith (1815: 16) and Myrsine wightiana Wallich ex de Candolle (1834: 106) .</p><p>Distribution: Mukurthi National Park, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India (Figure 2).</p><p>Conservation status: During the present study, the authors have observed seven individuals of this new species, on the way to Nadugani-Mukurthi National Park covering about 2 km 2 geographical areas. Therefore, it is provisionally assessed here as Critically Endangered [CR, D], according to IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (IUCN 2022).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EC2E87D3FFC4825FD8FFFCF1FCCEFEF1	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	Karthik, B.;Murugesan, M.;Anusuba, V.;Premkumar, M.;Tharani, R.	Karthik, B., Murugesan, M., Anusuba, V., Premkumar, M., Tharani, R. (2023): Symplocos sisparensis (Symplocaceae), a new species from the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India. Phytotaxa 589 (1): 83-90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.589.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.589.1.8
