Summary. Two new species of Brachystelma: B. mahajanii Kambale & S. R. Yadav from Ebbanad, Nilgiri District, Tamil Nadu and B. vartakii Kambale & S. R. Yadav from Periya, Kasargod District, Kerala are described and illustrated.
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SSK thanks the University Grant Commission (UGC- MANF-BUD-MAH-6838), New Delhi for financial assistance. SS thanks the Council for Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR – SRA 8492) and Department of Science and Technology (DST - SR/FT/LS-100/2011) for funding. The authors are grateful to Dr Ulrich Meve, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Dr Peter Bruyns, Bolus Herbarium, Cape Town, South Africa and Dr Siro Masinde, National Museum of Kenya, Kenya for their critical comments on the identity of the species. The authors are thankful to Dr K. N. Gandhi, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, USA for his suggestions on the specific epithets. The authors would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their comments on improving this manuscript. The authors are also grateful to the Head, Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur and Dr Praveen Karanth, Centre for Ecological Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for the laboratory facilities. Dr Shrikant P. Sutar, Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur is thanked for the illustrations. Mr K. Raja Kullayi Swamy, Department of Botany, SK University, Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh is thanked for providing some samples in this study.
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Kambale, S.S., Surveswaran, S. & Yadav, S.R. Two new species of Brachystelma Sims (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae-Ceropegieae) from the Western Ghats of India. Kew Bull 69, 9493 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-014-9493-1
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