Kleinia subrahmanianii

Kleinia subrahmanianii Chandrasseril Narayanan Sunil, V V Naveen Kumar, Thyppokkath Sundaram Rajeev, M K Ratheesh Narayana, V P Prasad, Telopea Vol 20 (2017);

Kleinia subrahmanianii (Asteraceae),: 1 image.
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Kleinia subrahmanianii (ID help from Mr.Pieter Prins on Dec 2020) Nov 2017, Silent Valley (core area, found near Kunthi river bank), Palakkad, Kerala. Shrub.
Identified (In Dec 2020)-recently described species called Kleinia subrahmanianii (Asteraceae), endemic to this region of Kerala.
Since it a rare species I am enclosing the photo. Hopefully you will get more to append.

Kleinia subrahmanianii…photo: 1 image.
Kleinia subrahmanianii (ID help from Mr.Pieter Prins on Dec 2020) Nov 2017, Silent Valley (core area, found near Kunthi river bank), Palakkad, Kerala. Shrub.
Identified (In Dec 2020)-recently described species called Kleinia subrahmanianii (Asteraceae), endemic to this region of Kerala.
Since it a rare species I am enclosing the photo. Hopefully you will get more to append.

Kleinia subrahmanianii (Asteraceae: Senecioneae), a new species from Kerala : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – Kleinia subramanyamii.pdf- 1 MB.

Please find attached a PDF of a recently published paper as above which may be found useful.

References:

Kleinia subrahmanianii (Asteraceae: Senecioneae), a new species from southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India (Abstract- Kleinia subrahmanianii, a new species of Asteraceae from southern Western Ghats is described and illustrated. Kleinia subrahmanianii is allied to Kleinia grandiflora but differs in having green, terete branchlets, elliptic–oblong to linear–lanceolate non-glaucous leaves, 30–95 cm long dark–purplish scape, 7–22 drooping capitula per scape, 16–20 mm long dark–purple phyllaries, 1.3–1.7 cm long corolla tube, 2.3–3 mm long corolla lobes, 2.5–3 mm long anthers and short pappus)

Updated on November 3, 2025

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