Material and Methods
The study is based on the material collected from natural population in Bari Brahmana town of District Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, India (Fig. 1). Apart from the collection of plants, field data including locality, habitat and associated plants, altitude, and collection date were recorded. Detailed morphological characters and measurements were recorded with vernier caliper. For comparison of the new species with its congeneric taxa, the regional, national and international floras (Duthie 1915, Oomachan 1977, Singh and Kachroo 1976, Sharma and Kachroo 1981, Chowdhary and Wadhwa 1984; Babu 1977; Kandwal and Gupta 2009) were consulted. Furthermore, the diagnostic features used for the comparison of new species were examined with vouchers submitted viz., RRLH, HBJU, K, E, W, CUKH, GUH (acronyms as perĀ ThiersĀ 2023) and databases such aswww.gibf.org.,www.eFloras.org.www.eFloraofIndia. Herbarium vouchers were prepared by applying the standard herbarium specimen preparation protocol (Singh 2019). Illustration of the plant and floral parts and line drawings were prepared by using binocular stereoscope. The threat status of the new species was assessed based on the Criteria and category of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN 2019).