identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
29353A5BFFFE286CFF4B8836FA5BFE3E.text	29353A5BFFFE286CFF4B8836FA5BFE3E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Euphorbia khandallensis Blatter & Hallberg 1921	<div><p>Resurrection of E. khandallensis</p> <p>Balakrishnan &amp; Chakrabarty (2007) have included E. khandallensis as a variety of E. fusiformis (E. fusiformis var. khandallensis (Blatt. &amp; Hallb.) Binojkumar &amp; Balakrishnan 2010: 280). Although Aditya (2010), in his revision of Indian geophytic Euphorbias referred to E. khandallensis as an accepted species, he did not discuss the taxonomic change made earlier by Balakrishnan &amp; Chakrabarty (2007) and also did not explicitly resurrect it from its varietal rank. Later, Balakrishnan et al. (2012) retained the varietal rank of this taxon, creating further ambiguity. The major difference between E. fusiformis and E. khandallensis is the length of the cyathial pedicel (technically peduncle, referred to as pedicel by Balakrishnan et al. 2012), which is up to 5 cm in the former and 0.5 cm in latter (see Balakrishnan et al. 2012). Secondly, the roots of E. fusiformis are typically fusiform while in E. khandallensis they are highly irregular and never fusiform. Additionally, E. fusiformis is a widely distributed species and E. khandallensis a very restricted one. Hence, considering E. khandallensis as variety of E. fusiformis cannot be justified. Therefore, we propose to resurrect the specific status of E. khandallensis here based on the above mentioned differences. We believe that E. acaulis should be considered a synonym of E. fusiformis subject to further scrutiny (Balakrishnan et al. 2012).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/29353A5BFFFE286CFF4B8836FA5BFE3E	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	Mane, Rohit N.;Nerlekar, Ashish N.;Lapalikar, Sairandhri A.;Kambale, Sharad S.;Yadav, Shrirang R.	Mane, Rohit N., Nerlekar, Ashish N., Lapalikar, Sairandhri A., Kambale, Sharad S., Yadav, Shrirang R. (2017): The taxonomic status of two geophytic Euphorbia species (Euphorbiaceae) from Maharashtra, India. Phytotaxa 307 (2): 141-146, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.307.2.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.307.2.5
