Neanotis Lewis 1966
Creators: name: Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan
name: Salim, Pichan Mohammed
name: Narayanan, Matalai Kokkarammath Ratheesh
name: Nithya, Vadassery Madhanan
name: Sanilkumar, Malayil Gopalan
name: Anilkumar, Nadesapanicker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Neanotis

description: Key to the species of Neanotis in Western Ghats
1a. Capsule indehiscent ............................................................................................................................................................................2
1b. Capsule dehiscent ...............................................................................................................................................................................4
2a. Stem broadly winged, the wings 1–1.5 mm broad, inflorescence dichasial corymbose cyme; flowers heterostylous..... N. prabhuii
2b. Stem not winged or narrowly winged; inflorescence capitate; flowers homostylous........................................................................3
3a. Calyx lobes and capsules villous................................................................................................................................. N. nummularia
3b. Calyx lobes and capsules glabrous .................................................................................................................................. N. wightiana
4a. Leaves fleshy...................................................................................................................................................................... N. carnosa
4b. Leaves membranous .......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
5a. Flowers in clusters or capitate ............................................................................................................................................................6
5b. Flowers in dichasial cyme or solitary.................................................................................................................................................8
6a. Ovary 3–4-locular.............................................................................................................................................................. N. tubulosa
6b. Ovary 2-locular...................................................................................................................................................................................7
7a. Leaves sessile, linear; capsule cells 4 – 5-seeded................................................................................................................ N. subtilis
7b. Leaves petioled, ovate or lanceolate; capsule cells 1 – 3-seeded .................................................................................. N. montholoni
8a. Leaves sessile or subsessile ................................................................................................................................................................9
8b. Leaves with distinct petiole more than 5 mm long...........................................................................................................................11
9a. Seeds 20–40 per capsule.................................................................................................................................................... N. calycina
9b. Seeds up to 16 per capsule................................................................................................................................................................10
10a. Branchlets villous; flowers in tomentose cyme; calyx lobes strigose without...................................................................... N. indica
10b. Branchlets glabrous; flowers in glabrous cyme; calyx lobes glabrous.......................................................................... N. sahyadrica
11a. Capsule dehiscing septicidally .........................................................................................................................................................12
11b. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally........................................................................................................................................................13
12a. Procumbent herb; capsule broader than long ............................................................................................................. N. monosperma
12b. Erect herb; capsule longer than broad ........................................................................................................................... N.richardiana
13a. Flowers in dense–flowered villous cyme ........................................................................................................................ N. longiflora
13b. Flowers solitary or in loose – flowered glabrous cyme or panicle...................................................................................................14
14a. Pilose herbs; stipule inconspicuous; corolla lobes with two parallel pink lines.............................................................. N. prainiana
14b. Glabrous or sparsely hairy herbs; stipule conspicuous; corolla lobes without two parallel pink lines ............................................15
15a. Annual herbs with quadrangular stem..............................................................................................................................................16
15b. Perennial herbs with terete stem.......................................................................................................................................................17
16a. Corolla lobes hairy; anthers oblong; seeds 2–4 in each cell............................................................................................... N. latifolia 16b. Corolla lobes glabrous; anthers linear; seeds many in each cell .......................................................................................... N.rheedei
17a. Capsule subglobose; calyx lobes triangular, sub erect in fruit ......................................................................................... N. decipiens
17b. Capsule broader than long; calyx lobes lanceolate, deflexed in fruit................................................................................ N.lancifolia
description: Published as part of Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan, Salim, Pichan Mohammed, Narayanan, Matalai Kokkarammath Ratheesh, Nithya, Vadassery Madhanan, Sanilkumar, Malayil Gopalan & Anilkumar, Nadesapanicker, 2021, Neanotis prabhuii, a new species of Rubiaceae from Western Ghats, India, pp. 234-238 in Phytotaxa 527 (3) on pages 237-238, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.527.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5751425