identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
0388FB5AFFB5FFEB23CA2822FAFEFDED.text	0388FB5AFFB5FFEB23CA2822FAFEFDED.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bauhinia bassacensis var. nicobarica Tiwari U. L., K. Ravikumar & N. Balachandran 2013	<div><p>Bauhinia bassacensis var. nicobarica Tiwari U.L., K. Ravikumar &amp; N. Balachandran, var. nov. (Figs. 1 &amp; 2)</p> <p>Differs from the typical variety in having exstipulate leaves, lobes of leaves obtuse at apex, bract rusty tomentose and ovate, bracteoles 2, lanceolate, rusty tomentose; fertile stamens always 2; filaments hairy, anther lobes brown.</p> <p><a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=93.91747&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=71.03414" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 93.91747/lat 71.03414)">Type</a>:— INDIA. <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=93.91747&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=71.03414" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 93.91747/lat 71.03414)">Great Nicobar Island</a>: Near Army land, Campbell Bay, 20 February 2013, N- 71 o 2’ 2.9’’, E 93 o 55’ 2.9’’, 16 m ASL, K. Ravikumar, N. Balachandran and Umeshkumar Tiwari 115533 (holotype FRLH!; isotypes FRLH!, PBL!).</p> <p>Large, woody, climbers; tendrils coiled stout, glabrous; young branches rusty tomentose, mature grooved and lenticellate. Leaves exstipulate; petioles glabrescent, 2 7 cm long; lamina ovate-cordate, ca. 19 × 13 cm, 9 13-nerved, bifid, down to 3.5 4.8 cm length with narrow sinus, apex of lobes obtuse, base cordate, upper surface glabrous, lower brownish tomentose to glabrescent, base of the lamina with two distinct glands expanding up to pulvinous base. Inflorescences lateral or terminal, many-flowered, racemes or panicles; peduncles rusty tomentose; pedicels ca. 3.5 cm long in flower and ca. 7 cm long in fruit; bracts ovate, rusty tomentose, ca. 0.5 mm long; bracteoles 2, lanceolate, inserted near the middle of the pedicels, rusty tomentose, 1–1.5 mm long. Buds ovoid, rusty tomentose, 4–6 mm long. Hypanthium c. 1 mm long. Calyx during anthesis splitting into 2 segments forming right angles with the pedicels, 5–7 mm long, sometime persistent with fruit. Petals 2 above and three below, pubescent, creamish with purplish-red veins prominent on both sides, blade deltoid, crumpled, subequal, narrowly ovate to suborbicular with undulate margin, ca. 6 × 5 mm; claw 1.5–2 cm long, soft hairy. Stamens 9 (2 + 7); fertile stamens 2, staminodes absent sometime 1; filaments 1.2–1.6cm long, hairy; anthers 1–2 mm long, lobes brown; reduced stamens 7 in number, unequal, 3–9 mm long, filiform, white. Carpels densely brownish pilose, distinctly stalked, styles 6-8 mm, hairy with a small capitate stigma. Pods rusty tomentose, 8–13 × 3–4 cm with persistent style, stalks c. 3 mm long; styles persistent in fruit. Seeds, 2–5, dark brown, flattened, oblong-orbicular, c. 1.5 × 2 cm, smooth, glabrous.</p> <p>Flowering &amp; Fruiting:— From February to March.</p> <p>Distribution:— India: Campbell Bay, Great Nicobar Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p> <p>Habitat:— Liana in mixed semi-evergreen forests.</p> <p>Ecological status:— About three individuals confined to an area of 1 km 2 were observed during field survey. Though it qualifies to be kept under Critically Endangered (CR) category, further studies and explorations in adjacent areas are required to ascertain its actual status.</p> <p>Etymology:— The varietal epithet refers to the place of its collection.</p> <p>This new variety is allied to typical var. bassacensis and var. backeri, but differs from both markedly in having exstipulate leaves, lobes of leaves obtuse at apex, bract rusty tomentose and ovate, bracteoles 2, lanceolate, rusty tomentose; fertile stamens always 2; filaments hairy, anther lobes brown (see table 1).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0388FB5AFFB5FFEB23CA2822FAFEFDED	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	Tiwari, Umeshkumar;Ravikumar, Kaliamoorthy;Balachandran, Natesan	Tiwari, Umeshkumar, Ravikumar, Kaliamoorthy, Balachandran, Natesan (2013): A new variety of Bauhinia bassacensis (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) from Great Nicobar Island, India. Phytotaxa 149 (1): 12-18, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.149.1.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.149.1.2
