Taraxacum assemanii represents a new section: A revision of the misinterpreted Taraxacum primigenium, and the elucidation of the enigmatic Taraxacum section Primigenia (Compositae, Crepidinae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 520 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
JAN KIRSCHNER ◽  
JAN ŠTĚPÁNEK ◽  
MOSLEM DOOSTMOHAMMADI ◽  
VOJTĚCH ZEISEK
Keyword(s):  
Type Locality ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Narrow Endemic ◽  
The Core ◽  
Sw Iran ◽  
Short Beak

On the basis of new gatherings at the type locality, Taraxacum primigenium was evaluated taxonomically. Its achenes differ substantially from the protologue description that is based on achenes of T. assemanii. Taraxacum primigenium, also on the basis of an nrDNA analysis, is close to T. sect. Piesis, and represents a narrow endemic confined to the Lalezar Mts., SE Iran. Taraxacum assemanii, newly typified, is known from mountains of SE Anatolia and Lebanon, and from the Zagros in SW Iran. It is characterized by large, almost or totally smooth achenes with indistinct cone and a very gradual achene body/beak transition, a thick short beak and a short, slightly brownish pappus. It represents a single member of a newly described section, T. sect. Pristina. The name of T. sect. Primigenia, although with a diagnosis corresponding to the characters of T. assemanii, is to be interpreted according to its type, T. primigenium, and is understood as a synonym of T. sect. Piesis. Another taxon evaluated, T. cylleneum, endemic to several mountain ranges in of Peloponnesos, Greece, is similar to T. primigenium, and very close to the core taxa of T. sect. Piesis. All the species dealt with reproduce sexually.

Feng-shui: Ideology and Ecology

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. N. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Slope Failure ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Feng Shui ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
The Core ◽  
Site Planning ◽  
Chinese Peasant ◽  
Direct Encounter ◽  
The Hill

My first direct encounter with feng-shui came soon after I arrived in Hong Kong in 1965. A new hospital was being built on a hill overlooking Castle Peak Bay, where my family and I lived. The hospital foundations cut deep into the slope. Several old peasants told me, “This is very bad; the construction has cut the dragon’s pulse.” I learned that the hill had a dragon in it, whose blood circulation had been cut by the foundation trench. This seemed strange to me. I noted it down as a fascinating local belief, and thought no more of it. Soon afterward, a typhoon dumped two feet of rain on Hong Kong within a few days. The oversteepened, undercut slope failed, and a torrent of mud descended, washing out the hospital foundations and burying a house or two at the hill foot. “See?” said my friends. “This is what happens when you cut the dragon’s pulse.” A light went on in my head. The Chinese peasants, pragmatic to the core, had described the phenomenon in terms strange to me; but the phenomenon they described was perfectly real. I reflected that the geologists’ terms “oversteepening” and “slope failure” were not much more empirically verifiable than the dragon. Any Chinese peasant would find them even stranger than I had found that eminent serpent, since I had already learned from reading that ancient Chinese saw dragons in the scaly, ridged contours of mountain ranges. As time went on, I learned that I had found more than a different way of talking about obvious facts. Chinese site planning seemed more and more rational. I learned that villages protected the groves of trees that ringed them, because trees attract good influences and also provide shade, firewood, fruit, leafmold, timber, and other goods. I learned that roads to villages were made crooked to discourage evil beings—and that the evil beings included not only demons but also soldiers, government officials, and (other) bandits.

Paratelmatobius mantiqueira Pombal & Haddad, 1999 (Anura: Leptodactylidae): New specimens and rectification of the type locality of a rare species from the Serra da Mantiqueira, southeastern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4845 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-450
Author(s):  
ELSIE ROTENBERG ◽  
EDELCIO MUSCAT ◽  
DANIEL RODRIGUES STUGINSKI ◽  
LUÍS FELIPE TOLEDO ◽  
MATHEUS DE TOLEDO MOROTI
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Congeneric Species ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Serra Do Mar ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Species Type

There are currently seven species of small frogs (up to 30 mm in snout-vent length) in the genus Paratelmatobius Lutz & Carvalho 1958 (Frost, 2020). They are all endemic to mountain ranges in the Atlantic Forest, occurring in the Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueira, southeastern Brazil (Santos et al. 2019). Most congeneric species are considered rare and their distribution is restricted to small areas (Domenico et al. 2014; Santos et al. 2020). Paratelmatobius mantiqueira Pombal & Haddad 1999 is one of the most enigmatic species in the genus. It hadn’t been seen from 1953, when the type series was collected, until 2005, when one specimen was found in the municipality of Resende, state of Rio de Janeiro (Vrcibradic et al. 2010). Recently, we found a new population of P. mantiqueira in the state of São Paulo. While reviewing the scattered information available about the species, we noticed inconsistencies related to the species’ type locality. We propose its rectification in this manuscript. 

Rediscovery and Typification of Habenaria polyodon Hook. f., a little known narrow endemic orchid from Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-233
Author(s):  
V. Ravichandran ◽  
◽  
M. Manikandan ◽  
C. Murugan ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Narrow Endemic ◽  
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

Habenaria polyodon Hook.f. is rediscovered after 168 years from the type locality. A short description, colour photographs and typification are provided here.

Chapter 5 Laxfordian Intrusive Rocks

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Keyword(s):  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
The Core ◽  
Gneiss Complex ◽  
Igneous Intrusions ◽  
Intrusive Rocks ◽  
Narrow Belt

Igneous intrusions of Palaeoproterozoic age occur within the outcrop of the Loch Maree Group and also within the Archaean gneiss complex, cutting the 'Scourie' dykes. Since they post-date either the dykes or the c. 2.0 Ga Loch Maree Group (LMG), they are considered to be Laxfordian in age. They are broadly granitoid in composition, and fall into three categories: (a) a suite of gneissose granodiorites and tonalites, including the Ard gneiss and Mill na Claise gneiss, which intrude the LMG; (b) thin granite sheets cutting both Archaean basement and 'Scourie' dykes; and (c) granitoid pegmatites.The Ard gneiss sensu stricto (Park 1964) is a gneissose granodioritic to tonalitic body (Fig. 5.1 A) whose outcrop extends from the type locality on the An Ard peninsula [802 751], where it is 600 m wide, southeastwards to Dubh Loch where it narrows to about 150 m. Similar gneisses, which are grouped with the Ard gneiss for convenience, occur in the core of the Mill na Claise fold (the Mill na Claise gneiss), and form a narrow belt along the SW side of the Mill na Claise amphibolite from Shieldaig Lodge to the SW end of Dubh Loch (the Cloiche gneiss) (see map).All these gneisses enclose numerous sheet-like bodies of amphibolite similar to, though coarser than, the amphibolites associated with the LMG metasediments. In the NW, on An Ard peninsula and NE of Lochan Dubh nan Cailleach, these amphibolites form distinct sheets up to 150 m wide. Further SE, at Druim Ruadh [822

scholarly journals Cordia diffusa K.C. Jacob, the Kovai Manjack (Boraginaceae): a highly threatened steno-endemic species from Coimbatore City, Tamil Nadu, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 14870-4875
Author(s):  
S. Arumugam ◽  
K. Sampath Kumar ◽  
B. Karthik ◽  
V. Ravichandran
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Mass Propagation ◽  
Endemic Plant ◽  
Narrow Endemic ◽  
Distribution Potential ◽  
The City

Cordia diffusa K.C. Jacob, belonging to Boraginaceae, discovered in 1938 and named by K.C. Jacob in 1944, is a little-known and the only narrow endemic but neglected plant of Coimbatore City.  The lectotype of the steno-endemic is determined and the current status, distribution, potential threats, bioprospecting potential, and suggestions for conservation of the species are discussed.  The collection of steno-endemic plant during intensive exploration in its type locality nearly after 90 years is of phytogeographic and conservation significance.  The endemic is proposed the category of Critically Endangered (CR) based on criterion D of IUCN (as per versions 3.1 & 13).  C. diffusa can be protected by promoting awareness of the rarity of native species and mass propagation through vegetative means so as to introduce it in gardens, parks, and avenues, etc. at once in the city. 

Begonia bachulkarii (Begoniaceae, sect. Reichenheimia), a new species from the southern Western Ghats with notes on sect. Reichenheimia in India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 423 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-283
Author(s):  
MAKARAND MOHANRAO AITAWADE ◽  
JOSEPH JOHN KATTUKUNNEL ◽  
SHRIRANG RAMCHANDRA YADAV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Narrow Endemic ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
Identification Of Species ◽  
Southern Western Ghats ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Begonia, B. bachulkarii has been described from the southern Western Ghats of India, which appears to be a narrow endemic restricted to its type locality. It is closely allied to B. floccifera. Morphological similarities and differences between both species and with the remaining species of sect. Reichenheimia from India are discussed. An artificial key is provided for the identification of species of sect. Reichenheimia from India.

Begonia handibadaganathensis (Begoniaceae), a new species from Western Ghats, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 423 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-210
Author(s):  
MAKARAND MOHANRAO AITAWADE ◽  
MADHUKAR YALLAPA BACHULKAR ◽  
SHRIRANG RAMCHANDRA YADAV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Vegetative Propagation ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Flower Size ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
Fruit Morphology ◽  
Narrow Endemic ◽  
Stamen Number ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Begonia, B. handibadaganathensis has been described from the northern Western Ghats of Karnataka. The species differs from all other Indian species of the genus in possessing axillary tubercles, a means of vegetative propagation. Begonia handibadaganathensis is closely allied to B. dipetala but differs mainly in the presence of tubercles in the leaf axils, flower size, stamen number and fruit morphology. The species appears to be a narrow endemic restricted to its type locality.

scholarly journals Noctuidae moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) with Iranian type locality

Check List ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asghare Shirvani
Keyword(s):  
Original Description ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Noctuid Species

A list of 358 noctuid species with Iranian type locality, is proposed belonging to 21 subfamilies. Moreover, the original combination, citation of the original description and synonymy of each species are presented. Xyleninae, Noctuinae and Hadeninae subfamilies constitute the greatest part of the Iranian fauna. The highest numbers of species of these three subfamilies have been recorded from the provinces located in the Zagros and Elburz mountain ranges, by 95 (26.5%), 81 (22.7%) and 46 (12.9%) species, respectively. The genus Hadena Schrank 1802, represented by 29 species and subspecies, composes the highest number of taxa in the list. The map indicates the locations of the country and its main mountain chains.

scholarly journals Cordia diffusa K.C. Jacob, the Kovai Manjack (Boraginaceae): a highly threatened steno-endemic species from Coimbatore City, Tamil Nadu, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 14870-14875
Author(s):  
S. Arumugam ◽  
K. Sampath Kumar ◽  
B. Karthik ◽  
V. Ravichandran
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Mass Propagation ◽  
Endemic Plant ◽  
Narrow Endemic ◽  
Distribution Potential ◽  
The City

Cordia diffusa K.C. Jacob, belonging to Boraginaceae, discovered in 1938 and named by K.C. Jacob in 1944, is a little-known and the only narrow endemic but neglected plant of Coimbatore City.  The lectotype of the steno-endemic is determined and the current status, distribution, potential threats, bioprospecting potential, and suggestions for conservation of the species are discussed.  The collection of steno-endemic plant during intensive exploration in its type locality nearly after 90 years is of phytogeographic and conservation significance.  The endemic is proposed the category of Critically Endangered (CR) based on criterion D of IUCN (as per versions 3.1 & 13).  C. diffusa can be protected by promoting awareness of the rarity of native species and mass propagation through vegetative means so as to introduce it in gardens, parks, and avenues, etc. at once in the city. 

scholarly journals Herpetofauna of the Amarkantak Plateau in central India

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-410
Author(s):  
Mukesh Ingle
Keyword(s):  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Central India ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Sacred Grove ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
The Core ◽  
Narmada River ◽  
Landscape Level

I conducted herpetofaunal surveys in poorly explored sections of Central India: The Amarkantak Plateau; The Son, Johila, and Narmada river lowlands; parts of the Maikal Mountain Range; and pockets of the core zone area of Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve. I recorded a total of 61 species (17 amphibian and 44 reptilian). Noteworthy findings included the rediscovery of the Critically Endangered Sacred Grove Bush Frog (Philautus sanctisilvaticus) at its type locality after 54 years, new state records for Dobson’s Burrowing Frog (Sphaerotheca dobsonii) and Beddome’s Grass Skink (Eutropis beddomii), and significant new distributional records for a number of species. This study highlights the importance of landscape-level, long-term fieldwork to untangle the hidden diversity of the Amarkantak Plateau.

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