The Cucurbitaceae of India: Accepted names, synonyms ...
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Cucurbitaceae</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>India</strong> 75<br />
35. Hemsleya macrocarpa (Cogn.) C. Y. Wu ex C. Jeffrey, Kew Bull. 36: 739. 1982.<br />
Gomphogyne macrocarpa Cogn. in Engl. Pflanzenr. IV. 275, 1 (Heft 66): 40. 1916.<br />
Holotype: <strong>India</strong>, Manipur, Laimatak, alt. 1300 m, November 1907, A. Meebold 6522<br />
(Wroclaw University, Poland: BRSL, not seen).<br />
Distribution in <strong>India</strong>: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland (Naithani, 1990).<br />
Distribution outside <strong>India</strong>: China (Yunnan).<br />
Image: Nothing reliable found online.<br />
GenBank: Sequences from Li et al. (2010) and Li et al. (2011), e.g., JF976573,<br />
JN044854.<br />
Comments: Hemsleya is thought to comprise 30 species mostly in China, a few in Indochina<br />
and East Malesia (Schaefer and Renner, 2011a). Further <strong>synonyms</strong> <strong>of</strong> H.<br />
macrocarpa are listed in Lu et al. (2011).<br />
36. Herpetospermum darjeelingense (C.B. Clarke) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner, Taxon<br />
60(1): 134. 2011.<br />
Edgaria darjeelingensis C.B. Clarke, J. Linn. Soc. 15: 114. 1876.<br />
Type: <strong>India</strong>, West Bengal, Darjeeling, 1 Oct 1875, C.B. Clarke 26857 (CAL photo<br />
available from SSR, K).<br />
Edgaria darjeelingensis var. clarkeana S. N. Biswas, J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 18(1): 173, f.<br />
A-1-6. 1994 (as clarkiana).<br />
Type: <strong>India</strong>, West Bengal, Darjeeling, alt. 2100 m, 9 Sep. 1875, Griffith s.n. (K).<br />
Distribution in <strong>India</strong>: Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal.<br />
Distribution outside <strong>India</strong>: Bhutan, Nepal, China (Xizang).<br />
Image: See above, photo <strong>of</strong> type collection.<br />
GenBank: Sequences from Kocyan et al. (2007), e.g., DQ536550.<br />
Comments: <strong>The</strong> genus Herpetospermum has three species in <strong>India</strong>, Myanmar, Nepal,<br />
Tibet, and China (Yunnan). In the herbarium, H. darjeelingense can be confused<br />
with H. pedunculosum, from which it is distinguished by its narrow and glabrous<br />
calyx-tube with filiform lobes (Chakravarty, 1982).<br />
37. Herpetospermum pedunculosum (Ser.) Baill. Hist. Pl. 8:445. 1885.<br />
Bryonia pedunculosa Ser., Prodr. 3: 306. 1828.<br />
Isotypes: Nepal, Wallich s.n. (G-DC, K), Wallich 6761 (K-W).<br />
Distribution in <strong>India</strong>: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur,<br />
Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.<br />
Distribution outside <strong>India</strong>: Bhutan, Nepal, China.
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