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A new species, Ceropegia concanensis Kambale, Chandore & S. R. Yadav is described from the Sindhudurg and Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra, India.
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The authors thank the University Grant Commission (UGC- MANF-BUD-MAH-6838), New Delhi and Department of Biotechnology (DBT) for financial assistance. Thanks are due to J. F. Veldkamp, National Herbarium Netherland, Leiden University, The Netherlands for the Latin diagnosis. We are thankful to the Head Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, for the laboratory facilities and to Shrikant P. Sutar, for preparing the illustrations.
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Kambale, S.S., Chandore, A.N. & Yadav, S.R. Ceropegia concanensis, a new species (Apocynaceae: Ceropegieae) from Western Ghats, India. Kew Bull 67, 843–848 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-012-9406-0
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