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Argostemma phyllocharis, a new species of Rubiaceae from Northern Thailand

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Argostemma phyllocharis Sridith, a new species from Ban Pha Sue, Mae Hong Son province, Northern Thailand, is described and illustrated, and a chromosome number count is given.

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The author would like to express his gratitude to the European Commission (EU) and the former ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC) at Los Baňos, the Philippines for their financial support of the project “The genus Argostemma Wall. (Rubiaceae) of Malay Peninsula and Peninsular Thailand" (project no. RE-THA-002), which has made all the field surveys of natural populations of Argostemma in Thailand possible. I would like to thank also to Dr Sahut Chantanaorrapint, a colleague at PSU, for his kind help with the image and illustration used in this contribution. The Author's former student, Mrs Saitip Apinyanund, is thanked for the chromosome count and chromosome photograph used here. The illustration used here was drawn by Mr Monraj Intarasiri.

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  1. Herbarium (PSU), Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum, Centre for Biodiversity of Peninsular Thailand, Department of Biology, Fac. of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, 90112, Thailand

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Sridith, K. Argostemma phyllocharis, a new species of Rubiaceae from Northern Thailand. Kew Bull 67, 85–87 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-012-9326-z

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