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370B5106FFB8FFEBFF5607A7FDA4F148.text	370B5106FFB8FFEBFF5607A7FDA4F148.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Parahyparrhenia khannae	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Parahyparrhenia khannae A. P. Tiwari &amp; Chorghe  sp. nov. (Fig. 1 &amp; 2) </p>
            <p> Diagnosis:—  Parahyparrhenia khannae is similar to  P. bellariensis in having dorsal groove in lower glume of sessile spikelet, but differs in having plant height 10–30 cm long (vs. 60–90 cm long), leaf blade 2.5–6.0 cm long (vs. 7.0– 20 cm long), ligule lacerate membrane (vs. fringe of hairs), racemes 2.5–4.5 cm long (vs. 5–6 cm long), homogamous spikelets 1–2 (vs. 4–5), sessile spikelet 4–5 mm long (vs. 8–9 mm long), glumes of sessile spikelet nerveless (vs. 5–6 nerved) and anthers 0.5–0.8 mm long (vs. c. 3 mm long) </p>
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                 Type:—   INDIA, Madhya Pradesh, Ratlam district, Sailana Tahsil,  
                <a title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 74.91235/lat 23.430208)" href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=74.91235&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.430208">Sailana Bird Sanctuary</a>
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                <a title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 74.91235/lat 23.430208)" href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=74.91235&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.430208">Shikarwadi area</a>
                 ) 23°25’48.75”N 74°54’44.48”E, 8 October 2015, A. P. Tiwari 75590 (Holotype CAL; Isotype BSA)  . 
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            <p>Annual grass, 10 –30 cm high. Culms, slender, terete, glabrous, purplish at nodes; node glabrous. Leaf blade filiform, flat to involute, 2.5–6.0 cm long,1.0– 1.5 mm wide, glabrous or slightly puberulous above, granulate beneath, margins smooth; sheath terete, glabrous, 2–3 cm long; ligule lacerate membrane, 0.8–1.0 mm long. Raceme solitary, slender, 2.5–4.5 cm long, terminating to culm and branches, subtended by a spatheole, bearing 4–8 fertile spikelets on each; spatheole linear, 3–6 cm long, herbaceous, glaucous when young; rachis flattened, 1.5–2.0 mm long, ciliate on margins, oblique at tip. Homogamous spikelets 1–2 at the base racemes, solitary or paired, neuter to male. Sessile spikelet 4.0–5.0 mm long, linear-oblong, awned, falling entire; callus pungent, 1.0– 1.5 mm long, attached obliquely, bearded with white hairs. Lower glume 4.0–5.0 mm long, coriaceous, linear-oblong, with a deep median groove on the dorsal surface, nerveless, margins inflexed, scaberulous on dorsal surface in above upper half, 2-keeled, 2-toothed at apex; teeth connected by a membranous tissue. Upper glume 4.0– 4.5 mm long, subcoriaceous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, glabrous on dorsal surface, nerveless, muticose at apex, margins inflexed, ciliolate in upper half. Lower lemma 2.5–3.0 mm long, membranous, elliptic-oblong, dentate and ciliolate apex. Palea absent. Upper lemma reduced to a hyaline base of geniculate awn, linear, 3.0– 3.4 mm long, bidentate; awn geniculate, 4.5–6.0 cm long, with twisted and spirally hairy column. Palea absent. Lodicule 2. Stamen 3; anther 0.5–0.8 mm long. Caryopsis 3.0– 3.5 mm long, purplish, narrowly oblong, glabrous, with a deep median groove on the dorsal surface. Pedicelled spikelet 5.5–6.5 mm long, glabrous; pedicel 1.5–2.0 mm long, ciliate on margins; callus oblong, 0.5–1.0 mm long, acute and straight at apex, glabrous, with depressions on ventral side. Lower glume 5.5–6.5 mm long, subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate, 7-nerved, 2-teeth at apex, scaberulous on margins. Upper glume 5.0– 5.5 mm long, membranous, linear-lanceolate, ciliate on margins, acuminate at apex.</p>
            <p>Distribution:— INDIA: Madhya Pradesh, Ratlam and Jhabua districts; Gujarat, Rajkot district, Saurashtra University. Endemic.</p>
            <p> Habitat &amp;Associated species:— Occur in open grassland at an altitude of 1,444 – 1,675 ft with associate grass species such as  Aristida redacta Stapf (1892: 85) ,  Aristida setacea Retzius (1786: 22) ,  Chrysopogon fulvus (Sprengel 1815: 10) Chiovenda (1929: 327) ,  Heteropogon contortus (Linnaeus 1753: 1045) P. Beauvois ex Roemer &amp; Schultes (1817: 836) ,  Melanocenchris jacquemontii Jaubert &amp; Spach (1851: 325) and  Sehima nervosum (Rottler 1803: 218) Stapf (1917: 36) etc. </p>
            <p>Phenology:— Flowering and fruiting was observed from September to October.</p>
            <p>Etymology:—The species is named in honour of Dr. K.K. Khanna (Former Scientist, Botanical Survey of India, Central Regional Centre, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) for his contributions in the field of angiosperms taxonomy, specially related to the Flora of Madhya Pradesh.</p>
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                 Additional Specimens Examined:—   INDIA: Madhya Pradesh, Jhabua district, Petlawad,  
                <a title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 74.8/lat 23.930208)" href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=74.8&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.930208">Salunea</a>
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                <a title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 74.8/lat 23.930208)" href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=74.8&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.930208">Kharmor area</a>
                 ) 23°55’48.75”N / 74° 48’ 0”E, 10 October 2015, A. P. Tiwari 75595 (BSA)  ;   Gujarat, Rajkot,  Saurashtra University 10 th October 1977 Bharkava 50 (BSI!)  . 
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            <p> Notes:— Deshpande et al. (1978) reported  P. bellariensis from Rajkot, Gujarat based on Bharkava 50 (BSI!). After studying specimen present in BSI we have concluded that it is not  P. bellariensis but the different species which we are describing here as  P. khannae . </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/370B5106FFB8FFEBFF5607A7FDA4F148	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, Arjun Prasad;Chorghe, Alok R.;Landge, Shahid Nawaz;Mujaffar, Shaikh	Tiwari, Arjun Prasad, Chorghe, Alok R., Landge, Shahid Nawaz, Mujaffar, Shaikh (2020): A new species of Parahyparrhenia (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) from India. Phytotaxa 446 (1): 55-60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.446.1.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.446.1.7
