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Pramod R. Lawand, Rajaram V. Gurav & Vinod B. Shimpale

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Rediscovery, after over a century, of the Argyreia lawii from two localites, endemic climbing vine Argyreia lawii viz., Bhudargad Fort and Patgaon, (Convolvulaceae) from the Western Ghats District of of India State. A relevant literature study ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) (Clarke 1883; Cooke 1908; Biju ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Pramod R. Lawand 1 , Rajaram V. Gurav 2 & 1997) revealed that the species PLATINUM Vinod B. Shimpale 3 was re-collected afer a lapse of OPEN ACCESS more than 100 years. The species 1,3 Department of Botany, The New College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra was described by Clarke (1883) 416012, India. 2Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra based on collectons made by J.S. 416004, India. Law and named the species to honour his botanical 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected], contributons. Law collected the specimens from 3 [email protected] (corresponding author) populatons of the species in Malabar, Konkan Province and Bababudhan Hills of Karnataka State. Afer the type collectons made by Law prior to 1883, no collectons Argyreia Lour., a taxonomically complex genus of the from the Konkan Province have been reported. Cooke family Convolvulaceae is represented by 135 taxa (Staples (1908) mentoned that he had not seen any specimen & Traiperm 2017) distributed in south eastern Asia, from the Bombay Presidency in Flora of the Presidency China, and the Indian subcontnent. In India, the genus is of Bombay. It was further writen that Talbot might not represented by about 40 species and is the second most have collected it as he did not menton about locality. species-rich genus of Indian Convolvulaceae. The genus Singh et al. (2001) in fora of Maharashtra State cited has not been revised in its entrety which has resulted the species on the authority of Talbot (1902). The digital in the ambiguous identfcatons of many taxa. Some fora of Karnataka(htp://forakarnataka.ces.iisc.ac.in, species are known only from their type localites and accessed on 04 July 2018)by Sankara Rao et al. (2012) partcularly, endemic species are poorly represented reports the occurrence of A. lawii from Chikkamagaluru in the herbaria. So the authors have undertaken the District of Karnataka State based on the reference of revisionary studies in the genus Argyreia with a critcal Sharma et al. (1984). But it is clearly mentoned in the appraisal on an exploraton and nomenclature; the fora of Karnataka analysis that the species was not present communicaton is the outcome of it. collected by them from Chikkamagaluru District. We The Western Ghats of India, one of the eight hotest searched at another type locality, Bababudhan Hills hotspots of biodiversity (Myers et al. 2000), harbors in Chikkamagaluru District and found populatons of endemic and threatened biodiversity of India. An the species locally abundant. Therefore, the present exploraton of the northern Western Ghats of India collectons are the recollecton afer the type collecton. in the year 2016–2017 resulted in the collecton of

DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4419.11.14.14917-14920

Editor: Aparna Watve, Biome Conservaton Foundaton, Pune, India. Date of publicaton: 26 November 2019 (online & print)

Manuscript details: #4419 | Received 20 July 2018 | Final received 12 October 2019 | Finally accepted 07 November 2019

Citaton: Lawand, P.R., R.V. Gurav & V.B. Shimpale (2019). Rediscovery, afer over a century, of the endemic climbing vine Argyreia lawii (Convolvulaceae) from the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(14): 14917–14920. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4419.11.14.14917-14920

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Acknowledgements: The authors are thankful to the Principal, The New College, Kolhapur for providing laboratory facilites. PRL is grateful to the Council of Scientfc and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi (File No. 08/631(0001)2015-EMR-I) for providing fnancial assistance towards the research work.

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Argyreia lawii C.B. Clarke like stem. Flowers sub-sessile, bracteate. Bracts 2, 1–2 cm in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4:190. 1883 (Images 1–4). long, linear-lanceolate, apex acute, bract of fower in fork Lectotype (designated by Lawand and Shimpale): larger, lance-ovate, midvein prominent, persistent, green, Karnataka, Bababoodan (Bababudhan) Hills s.d., Law 28 purple at margin, white hairy on both the sides. Calyx 5, Argyreia, (K000830722 digital image!). polysepalous, sepals, sub equal, 0.7–1.0 cm long, ovate, Descripton: A semi-woody 1–1.5 meters high climber apex acute, inner three wider than the outer two, strigose or sometmes prostrate shrub. Stem older semi-woody, outer, glabrous inside, outer sepal purple margined, inner young purple, strigose-villous, hairy, terete. Leaves hyaline on margins. Corolla funnel form, pink-purple, simple, alternate, 7–11 × 3–6 cm, base cordate, apex 4–5 cm long × 4–5 cm wide, hairy outer on midpetaline acute, strigose on both the surfaces, secondary veins 6–7 bands, throat purple ca. 1 cm wide, corolla lobes twisted pairs, conspicuous below; petole 2–4 cm long, dorsally in bud and shortly apiculate in fower. Stamens 5, grooved, purple in colour, hairy like stem. Inforescence inserted in corolla tube, unequal in length, 2.5–3.5 cm a compact 4–9 fowered cyme; peduncle 6–12 cm long, long, flaments pink, dilated and glandular hairy at base, longer than the petole, purple coloured, terete, hairy anthers basifxed, pale pink. Ovary 1–3 mm in diameter

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C D Image 1. Argyreia lawii: A—habit | B—habit closeup | C—Corolla front view | D—Corolla side view. © V.B. Shimpale.

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Image 2. Argyreia lawii: A—fowering twig | C—an inforescence | E—bracts | F—sepals | H—reproductve parts. Argyreia elliptca: B— fowering twig | D—an inforescence | G—sepals | I—reproductve parts. © P.R. Lawand. encircled by an annular disc; style-1; stgma biglobose, , Maharashtra coll. P.R. Lawand (Image pink. Fruit a berry, ca.1cm across, yellow. 3); PRLawand50 (SUK), 10.x.2017, Patgaon, Kolhapur Specimens examined: K000830722, K000830721 District, Maharashtra, coll. P.R. Lawand (Image 4). (K), 00135003 (GH), 00584825 (P) digital image!, s.d., Phenology: Flowering: August­–October; Fruitng: Bababoodan Hills, Karnataka, India, coll. Law 28 Argyreia; November–January. PR Lawand1 (SUK), 15.ix.2017, 700 m Bhudargad Fort, Habitat and Distributon: The populatons of Argyreia

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Image 3. Herbarium of Argyreia lawii [# PRLawand1 (SUK)]. Image 4. Herbarium of Argyreia lawii [(# PRLawand50 (SUK)].

Table 1. Morphological comparison of Argyreia lawii and A. elliptca. References Character Argyreia lawii Argyreia elliptca Biju, S.D. (1997). Taxonomic and Morphologic Studies on the Climber up to height of Huge climber up to height Habit Family Convolvulaceae of Southern Peninsular India 1–1.5 meters of 10–12meter . PhD Thesis (unpublished), University of Calicut, India. 70pp. 1–2 cm long, persistent 3–4 mm long, early Bracts Flora of Britsh in fower caducous Clarke, C.B. (1883). Convolvulaceae. In: Hooker, J.D. (ed.) India: Vol. 4. L. Reeve and Co., London. 190pp. A lax (loosely arranged), Inforescence Cooke, T. (1908). Flora of the Presidency of Bombay Vol. 2. Taylor and dichotomously branched Compactly arranged cyme architecture cyme Francis, London, 257pp. Lawand, P.R. & V.B. Shimpale (2017). Typifcatons in Argyreia (Convolvulaceae). Taiwania 62(3): 335–336. htp://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/ taiwania/pdf/tai.2017.62.335.pdf lawii were encountered along forest roadsides at 700– Sankara Rao, K., A. N. Sringeswara, Deepak Kumar, Sandeep Pulla & 800 m elevaton. The species grows sympatrically with A. R. Sukumar (2012). A digital herbarium for the fora of Karnataka. elliptca (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) Choisy. A. lawii can be Current Science 102(9): 1268–1271. htp://forakarnataka.ces.iisc. ac.in/hjcb2/index.php readily distnguished by the presence of linear-lanceolate, Sharma, B.D., N.P. Singh, R.S. Raghavan & U.R. Deshpande (1984).Flora persistent bracts while in A. elliptca bracts are very early of Karnataka analysis. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata, 179pp. caducous (Table 1). Till date, the species is known from Singh, N.P., P. Lakshminarsimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna three localites from two diferent states, i.e., Bababudhan (2001). Flora of Maharashtra State: Dicotyledons Vol. 2. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata, 445pp. Hills from Karnataka, and Bhudargad Fort and Patgaon Staples, G. & P. Traiperm (2017). A nomenclatural review of Argyreia from Maharashtra, India. (Convolvulaceae). Taxon 66(2): 445–477. Talbot, W.A. (1902). The Trees, Shrubs and Climbers of the Bombay In the two subpopulatons at Bhudargad Fort and Presidency. The Government Central Press, Bombay, 249pp. Patgaon in Kolhapur District of Maharashtra, we could observe 4–6 mature individuals. The populatons are frequent at Bababudhan Hills, Karnataka but the total Threatened Taxa area may not exceed 10km2.

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November 2019 | Vol. 11 | No. 14 | Pages: 14787–14926 Date of Publicaton: 26 November 2019 (Online & Print) www.threatenedtaxa.org DOI: 10.11609/jot.2019.11.14.14787-14926

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The Sally Walker Conservaton Fund -- an appeal for support Vertebrate prey handling in the Indian Grey Hornbill Ocyceros birostris – P. 14787 (Aves: Bucerotformes: Bucerotdae) – James A. Fitzsimons, Pp. 14891–14894 Communicatons Impact of cyclone Fani on the breeding success of sandbar-nestng birds Complementary bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) survey techniques uncover two along the Mahanadi River in Odisha, India new country records for Nigeria – Subrat Debata, Pp. 14895–14898 – Iroro Tanshi, Anthony Ekata Ogbeibu & Paul Jeremy James Bates, Pp. 14788–14801 First record of the micromoth Ethmia lineatonotella (Moore, 1867) (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae: Ethmiinae) from Bhutan Bone fractures in roadkill Northern Tamandua Tamandua mexicana – Jatshwor Singh Irungbam & Meenakshi Jatshwor Irungbam, (Mammalia: Pilosa: Myrmecophagidae) in Costa Rica Pp. 14899–14901 – Randall Arguedas, Elisa C. López & Lizbeth Ovares, Pp. 14802–14807 Additonal distributon records of the rare Nepal Comma Barilius torsai (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), a new freshwater fsh Polygonia c-album agnicula (Moore, 1872) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: from the Brahmaputra drainage, India Nymphalidae) from Rara Natonal Park, Nepal – Kavita Kumari, Manas Hoshalli Munivenkatappa, Archana Sinha, – Sanej Prasad Suwal, Biraj Shrestha, Binita Pandey, Bibek Shrestha, Prithivi Lal

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New distributon records in the orchid fora of Tripura, India On the foral biology and pollinaton of a rare Twining Liana – Arjun Adit, Monika Koul & Rajesh Tandon, Pp. 14876–14885 Sarcolobus carinatus Wall. (Asclepiadoideae: Apocynaceae) in Coringa Mangrove Forest, Andhra Pradesh, India Notes on the extended distributon of Humboldta bourdillonii (Fabales: – A.J. Solomon Raju, Pp. 14923–14926 Fabaceae), an Endangered tree legume in the Western Ghats, India – Anoop P. Balan, A.J. Robi & S.V. Predeep, Pp. 14886–14890

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