Hydrostachys flabellifera (Hydrostachyaceae), a new species from Madagascar

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Aquatic plants · Topics: Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and animal studies

Hydrostachys flabellifera, a new species of Hydrostachyaceae found in a stream in Manandriana, Madagascar, is described and illustrated herein. It is similar to H. verruculosa and H. laciniata in morphology, but can be distinguished from them by its leaves with sparsely arranged, flabelliform and palmately parted emergences, obvious rachis and the pattern of segments arranged on the male bracts. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) dataset provides a robust support for it as a new species as well.

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