Kavi K. Oza, Kishore S. Rajput* and Vinay M. Raole
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda,
Vadodara – 390002, Gujarat, India
Email: ks.rajput15@yahoo.com
Received-01.11.2021, Revised-17.11.2021, Accepted-26.11.2021
Abstract: During a recent field visit to Yawal wildlife sanctuary authors collected an interesting and novel plant specimen from Sirwel Dist. Khargone (Madhya Pradesh). The identification and authentication have been done with the standard literature i.e.,different floras, research papers etc. and it isidentified as Ipomoea parasitica (Kunth.) G. Don. It is a new world species and is collected for the first time in Madhya Pradesh and as per our knowledge, it is notcollected and recorded from Madhya Pradeshso far.Hence, the present collection of Ipomoea parasitica(Kunth.) G. Don, forms a new distributional record for Central India. The voucher specimen of the collection has been deposited at the BARO Herbarium Department of Botany, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat.
Keywords: Central India, Convolvulaceae, Ipomoea, New distribution
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