Subbiah Karuppusamy

• Biodiversity Journal, 4 (3): 395-398

  Selvamony Sukumaran, Subbiah Karuppusamy, Thankappan Sarasabai Shynin Brintha & Solomon Jeeva
  New distribution record of Boucerosia diffusa Wight (Gentianales Apocynaceae) in the Southern Western Ghats, India

  ABSTRACT
  The presence of Boucerosia diffusa Wight (Gentianales Apocynaceae) in the foothills of Southern Western Ghats at Pechiparai, Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary (India) is reported. This succulent asclepiad is frequently treated as Caralluma diffusa (Wight) N.E.Br. by many researchers. Present paper is the first record of the occurrence of this species in Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary and the second in the southern Western Ghats.

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