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Cuticular studies in some species ofHemigraphis andStrobilanthes

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Cuticular investigations have been carried out in three species ofHemigraphis and nine ofStrobilanthes. The two genera belonging to the family Acanthaceae are generally placed together within the same tribe by taxonomists.Hemigraphis andStrobilanthes show broadly similar epidermal characters though there are significant differences also. On the basis of the present study, the placement of these genera in two different sub-tribes but under the same tribe appears to be justified. The three species ofHemigraphis show more or less uniform epiderma1 characters butH. colorata andH. hirta are more close to each other than toH. alternata.

The epidermal characters of the investigated species ofStrobilanthes, which fall within six of Bremekamp’s new genera do not indicate any striking dissimilarities which would help to separate them under the new genera of Bremekamp.

The variations recorded in the epidermal characters of different species of the two genera are sufficiently pronounced, as to justify their use in making distinctions at species level.

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    Khwaja J. Ahmad

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Communicatedby Dr. L. D. Kapoor,f.a.sc.

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Ahmad, K.J. Cuticular studies in some species ofHemigraphis andStrobilanthes . Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 79, 29–40 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03045434

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