identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03D3985DFFB6FFA6243B45BA86C5C6C2.text	03D3985DFFB6FFA6243B45BA86C5C6C2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Veronica polita Fr., Novit. Fl. Svec.	<div><p>Veronica polita Fr., Novit. Fl. Svec. 1. 1828. subsp. lilacina (T.Yamaz.) T.Yamaz. in K. Iwats., T. Yamaz., Boufford &amp; H. Ohba., Fl. Jap. 3a: 354. 1993. Type: JAPAN, Tokoyo, Honshu, Yokohama, K. Hisauchi 572 (holo TI [TI00080033 digital image!]). Fig. 1</p><p>Annual herbs, forming dense mats on the ground. Stems prostrate to ascending, up to 15 cm long. Lower leaves petiolate and opposite; upper leaves near the terminal flower sessile and alternate; leaf blade 5–7-lobed, ovate to orbicular, 6–7 × 4–5 mm, sparsely pubescent to glabrous on the adaxial surface and densely pubescent on abaxial surface. Flowers solitary, terminal and axillary. Pedicels 5–6 mm long. Sepals 4, herbaceous, 3–4 × 1.8– 2.0 mm, ovate with overlapping base. Petals 4, whitish-pink, 1.5–2.2 × 1.6–2.2 mm, each with 5–10 rose-purple lines towards the base. Stamens 2; filaments 1.2–1.5 mm long; anthers up to 0.8 mm long. Carpel single, ovary hairy, 0.4–0.6 × 0.5–0.7 mm in size; style c. 1 mm long; stigma capitate. Capsule reniform, 2.0–2.5 × 3.0– 3.5 mm with a narrow sinus, surface puberulent consisting of long glandular and short eglandular hairs. Seeds ovate, c. 1.2 × 1.1 mm, transversely rugose on the dorsal side and deeply excavated on the ventral side.</p><p>Flowering &amp; fruiting: Flowering from April to May and fruiting from May to June.</p><p>Habitat: Grows in open sunny habitats, wastelands, gardens and parks; associated species include: Bellis perennis L. and Taraxacum officinale F.H.Wigg. (both Asteraceae), Medicago polymorpha L. and Trifolium dubium Sibth. (both Fabaceae), Veronica persica Poir. ( Plantaginaceae), Lolium temulentum L. and Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. (both Poaceae).</p><p>Distribution: The plant has been reported to occur in Korea, Japan mainlands and Nansei-shoto (POWO, 2021), and now recorded from the Kashmir Himalaya in India.</p><p>Specimens examined: INDIA, Jammu and Kashmir, University of Kashmir Campus Srinagar, 20.04.2021, Ruquia Gulzar &amp; Anzar A. Khuroo 45833 (KASH) ; Sopore, Baramulla, 05.05.2021, Ruquia Gulzar &amp; Anzar A. Khuroo 45834 (KASH) ; Wachi, Shopian 30.05.2021, Ruquia Gulzar &amp; Anzar A. Khuroo 45835 (KASH) .</p><p>Notes: The present study reports V. polita subsp. lilacina as a new record for India from the Kashmir Himalaya. The taxon was originally described as a variety of another species: V. didyma var. lilacina (Yamazaki, 1957) . Veronica didyma is now regarded as a synonym of V. polita (POWO, 2021) . Yamazaki (1993) raised the variety to subspecies level: V. polita subsp. lilacina (Iwatsuki et al., 1993; POWO, 2021). During the present study, the taxon was primarily determined based on the examination of freshly collected specimens from the Kashmir Himalaya (Ruquia Gulzar &amp; Anzar A. Khuroo 45833, 45834, 45835 KASH) and their comparison with the diagnostic characters provided in the protologue of V. polita subsp. lilacina (Iwatsuki et al., 1993) . Our specimens were distinct from V. polita subsp. polita and clearly resembled the protologue of V. polita subsp. lilacina in characters, such as stem length, pedicel length, corolla colour and seed shape (Table 1).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D3985DFFB6FFA6243B45BA86C5C6C2	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	R., Gulzar;A. A., Khuroo;T., Hassan;Rashid, I.	R., Gulzar, A. A., Khuroo, T., Hassan, Rashid, I. (2022): Veronica polita subsp. lilacina (Plantaginaceae), a new plant record for India from Kashmir Himalaya. Rheedea 32 (1): 101-105, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2022.32.01.07
