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Amorphophallus nicolsonianus species nova, with cylindrical or napiform corms, is the only representative of the sect.Rapyogkos in India. All the other hitherto known species of this region have globose or depressed globose corms. The new species is related to some Indochinese species and toA. hildebrandtii ( Engl.)Engl. & Gehrm. from Madagascar.
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Sivadasan, M. Amorphophallus nicolsonianus (Araceae), a new species from India. Pl Syst Evol 153, 165–170 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00983684
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