Marsdenia tirunelvelica A.N.Henry & Subr. (1976:186)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1972 (Kottaimuthu et al., 2011)
Rediscovered on 31 January 2008 (Kottaimuthu et al., 2011)
Distribution
Tamil Nadu, India
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Henry, A. N. and Subramanyam, K. (1976). A new Marsdenia R. Br. (Asclepiadaceae) from South India. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 73: 186-187.
Other references:
Annamalai, R., Muthukumar, K., Jacob, C. T., Knight, J. D. M. and Senthil, D. (2009). Endemic plants of Tamil Nadu. Envis Newsletter 5(4): 1-16.
Gopalan, R. and Henry, A. N. (2000). Endemic Plants of India: CAMP for the strict endemics of Agasthiyamalai Hills, SW Ghats. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun.
Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [692].
Jagtap, A. P. and Singh, N. P. (1999). Asclepiadaceae & Periplocaceae. Fasc. Fl. India. 24: 1-317. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
Kottaimuthu, R., Ganesan, R., Kumuthakalavalli, R. and N. Manikandan, N. (2011). On the rediscovery of Marsdenia tirunelvelica (asclepiadaceae) - a rare and little known endemic species from Western Ghats. Bio Diversity 38: 4243-4244.