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).