Bioscience Discovery, Volume 11, Number 2, Page Number 67-110, Month & Year: April - 2020

Occurrence of a Tinospora subcordata (Menispermaceae): a New Record to Flora of India, from Khandwa District, India

Shakun Mishra and Deepika Mishra*

Department of Botany, S.N. Govt. P.G. College, Khandwa 450001, Madhya Pradesh, India
*Research Scholar, School of Studies of Biotechnology, D.A.V.V., Indore, India
Email: [email protected]

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Abstract

Received: 10-12-2019,
Revised: 24-02-2020,
Accepted: 26-02-2020

The present paper enumerates the occurrence of Tinospora subcordata (Miq.)Diels an Australian (Southeast Asia and North of Australia) species collected for the first time from Khandwa District, Madhya Pradesh in India. Description, distribution, photographs and with the respective holotype images accessed on Kew Herbarium of this newly recorded species are provided to aid easy identification.

Keywords: Tinospora subcordata, Central India, Khandwa district, new record, India

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Shakun Mishra and Deepika Mishra,  2020. Occurrence of a Tinospora subcordata (Menispermaceae): a New Record to Flora of India, from Khandwa District, India. Bioscience Discovery, 11(2):85-89.

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