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New and little-known species of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) from India and South East Asia

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Descriptions and information about 26 species of Strobilanthes Blume are provided. Sixteen species are described as new: Strobilanthes bilabiata J. R. I. Wood, S. fragrans J. R. I. Wood and S. trichantha J. R. I. Wood from Thailand, S. borii J. R. I. Wood and S. parvifolia J. R. I. Wood from India, S. chrysodelta, J. R. I. Wood, S. muratae J. R. I. Wood, S. ramulosa J. R. I. Wood, S. tanakae J. R. I. Wood and S. wardiana J. R. I. Wood from Burma, S. disparifolia J. R. I. Wood from Laos, S. fusca J. R. I. Wood from the Philippines, S. longipedunculata Terao ex J. R. I. Wood from Vietnam, S. longistaminea J. R. I. Wood and S. pusilla J. R. I. Wood from Indonesia and S. orientalis J. R. I. Wood from East Timor. Species placed in Aechmanthera Nees and Sericocalyx Bremek. are transferred to Strobilanthes, resulting in the new name Strobilanthes sulewesiana J. R. I. Wood for Sericocalyx collina Bremek. and the new combinations Strobilanthes tomentosa (Nees) J. R. I. Wood, Strobilanthes celebica (Bremek.) J. R. I. Wood and Strobilanthes schomburgkii (Craib) J. R. I. Wood for the species hitherto known respectively as Aechmanthera gossypina (Wall.) Nees, Sericocalyx celebicus Bremek. and S. schomburgkii (Craib) Bremek. The new combinations Strobilanthes barisanensis (Bremek.) J. R. I. Wood and S. persicifolia (Lindl.) J. R. I. Wood are made, the latter based on an earlier name for the relatively well-known S. anisiphylla (G. Lodd.) T. Anderson. Kjellbergia celebica Bremek. is renamed Strobilanthes kjellbergii J. R. I. Wood. Some 22 species are illustrated with line drawings for the first time. Pollen of 16 species is illustrated with scanning electron micrographs. The more widespread species are mapped.

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The authors would like to express their thanks to the following herbaria and their staff who have facilitated the loan of the material on which this study is based: A, B, BM, CMU, E, F, L, K, KYO, MBK, NY, P, S and SING. John Wood is also grateful to the directors and staff at Kolcata (CAL), Kunming (KUN), Beijing (PE) and Cambridge (CGE) who assisted him during his visits to their herbaria, particularly Peter Sell and Gina Murrell at CGE for their advice on the typification of plants described by Lindley. We also have debts to several individuals. Dick Brummitt has given advice on nomenclatural matters. Over several years we have been sent valuable and interesting collections by J. F. Maxwell (CMU) and Nobuyuki Tanaka (MBK), the latter partly supported by a grant-in-Aid from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science and Technology to Jin Murata (17255004), and grant-in-Aid from Kochi Prefectural Government. It is a pleasure to publish some of their interesting new species in this paper. Martin van der Bult not only made the first collection of Strobilanthes fragrans but returned to look for leafy material subsequently to provide additional data on this species. At Oxford we have had help from John Baker and Denis Filer on maps and images and from Alison Strugnell with the processing of specimens. Rosemary Wise has made an enormous contribution to this paper by the illustrations which accompany the descriptions. John Wood acknowledges the financial support of the Druce fund at Oxford and the Botanical Research Fund in 2006, when the bulk of this paper was prepared.

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Wood, J.R.I., Scotland, R.W. New and little-known species of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) from India and South East Asia. Kew Bull 64, 3–47 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-009-9098-2

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