Short Communication: Cremanthodium indica (Asteraceae, Senecioneae), a new species from the Eastern Himalaya, India

Dipankar Borah (Department of Botany, Goalpara College. Goalpara 783101, Assam, India)
Rajeev Kumar Singh (Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre. TNAU Campus, Lawley Road, Coimbatore 641003, Tamil Nadu, India)
Lobsang Tashi Thungon (Department of Forestry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology. Nirjuli 791109, Arunachal Pradesh, India)

Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity
Vol. 22 No. 3 (2021)

Abstract. Borah D, Singh RK, Thungon LT. 2021. Short Communication: Cremanthodium indica (Asteraceae, Senecioneae), a new species from the Eastern Himalaya, India. Biodiversitas 22: 1268-1272. Cremanthodium indica D.Borah, R.Kr. Singh & Thungon (Asteraceae, Senecioneae), a new species from Eastern Himalayan state Arunachal Pradesh, India is described and illustrated. The new species is allied to Cremanthodium nobile (Franch.) Diels ex H.Lév. in having elliptic-obovate basal leaves, solitary, nodding capitula and hemispheric involucre, but differs by densely pale yellow tomentose stem, stem leaves 5–9, 1.6–2.1 cm distant, outer phyllaries 2.3–2.8 mm wide, inner phyllaries elliptic, 3–5 mm wide, apex acute, ray lamina creamy, oblong, 2–2.3 cm long, apex truncate, distinctly 3-dentate, ray tube 1.5–2 mm long, tubular florets creamy, 8–9 mm long and pappus 6–8 mm long.