Vinod Shimpale

• Professor at The New College Kolhapur

Convolvulus farinosus L. (Convolvulaceae), recently collected from the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu state, is reported here as a new record for the Flora of India. A detailed taxonomic account, including description,illustrations, photographs and field notes are provided to facilitate easy identification of the species in the field.

Ipomoea simoesiana, a new species of Convolvulaceae is described from the Western Ghats of India. The species is morphologically similar to I. ochracea (Lindl.) G.Don but it is distinguished by its hirsute stem and sepals, leaves with an acute apex, globose capsule, and hirsute seeds. A detailed description, distribution, phenological period and re...

The genus Argyreia Lour. (Convolvulaceae) in India is revised, wherein thirty-five species are recognized. This revision provides detailed description, illustrations, photographs, distribution and taxonomic notes. Argyreia

Convolvulaceae are an economically and ecologically important plant family, including the crop sweet potato, ornamental morning glories, bindweeds and dodders. In the past 20 years, much progress has been made in the taxonomy and systematics of the family at several scales. The integration of molecular phylogenetics has revolutionised our understan...

Ipomoeeae, the most diverse tribe in Convolvulaceae, contains 815 species, nearly half of the species diversity of the family. Its largest genus,

Seven nomenclatural novelties in the genus Distimake Raf. are here proposed: five species, two from the Neotropics and three from Eastern Africa, which were incertae sedis following revisionary work of Merremia Dennst. ex Endl. s.l., are here combined in Distimake based on recent taxonomic and phylogenetic progress; and two nomenclatural novelties...

A new species of Convolvulaceae from India, Distimake aparantae, is described and illustrated. The spe cies is restricted to the northern Western Ghats, on sea-facing slopes in coastal regions, at low altitude and may be Critically Endangered. It is morphologically similar to D. rhyncorhiza, differing by the pendulous flowers (vs erect in D. rhyn...

Man in all ages has used plants to cure diseases and relieving physical suffering. Even in this age of modem medicines, Indian system of folk medicine continues to provide medicinal relief for about 75% of our population. The studies on medicinal uses of flowering plants of south-western Maharashtra revealed that some of the medicinal uses of flowe...

The present study aimed to examine in vitro anticancer and apoptotic effects of the 80% ethanolic extract of Hymenodictyon floribundum and isolated compounds on A549 human lung cancer cell lines. Furthermore, isolated compounds and crude extract were investigated for their antimicrobial activity against Aspergillus niger, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Ba...

The present study shows the chemical profile, antimicrobial, antiproliferative, and apoptotic effects of Stemodia viscosa extracts. 13 bioactive compounds were identified in the 80% ethanolic extract by GC-MS analysis. The acetone extract exhibited a higher content of flavonoids and phenols of 805.10 µg QE/mg DW and 89.31 µg GAE/mg DW extracts, res...

A proposal to change the conserved type of Ipomoea was published in December 2020, and recommended by the Nomenclature Committee in 2023. This was done in the light of the possible negative consequences for a name change in the crop sweetpotato, which risk our proposal would significantly minimize. Recently, Muñoz‐Rodríguez & al. have published a r...

Camonea umbellata (Convolvulaceae) previously known as Merremia umbellata ssp. umbellata which is occurs in America from Mexico to Paraguay in the West Indies and tropical East Africa. In India it was previously reported from Andaman Islands. The species is distinct from other species of the genus in having more robust habit, larger leaves, longer...

Scientists have investigated the possibility of employing nanomaterials as drug carriers. These nanomaterials can preserve their content and transport it to the target region in the body. In this investigation, we proposed a simple method for developing distinctive, bioderived nanostructures with mesoporous carbon nanoparticles impregnated with tun...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial, cytotoxic, and antioxidant activities of Stemodia verticillata extract. Antimicrobial activity was assessed using agar well diffusion assay and Broth microdilution method, cytotoxicity effects using the 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay, the 2,2-diphenylpicr...

Distimake vitifolius comb. nov. (Convolvulaceae), currently treated as Camonea vitifolia, is a common and widespread species in South-East Asia. A recent study on the re-delimitation of the genus Merremia classified its species into six genera. The results of molecular phylogenetic analyses and the presence of hexazonocolpate pollen informed the tr...

Schematic illustration of the drug delivery mechanism.

During the taxonomic inventory of flora of the Indian Desert, a rare plant species namely, Ipomoea rumicifolia Choisy (Convolvulaceae) has been recorded after a long time from the Kachchh district of Gujarat state, Western India. The present paper deals witha detailed taxonomic description of the species along with its phenology, ecology, range of...

Argyreia is one of the dominant genera of the family Convolvulaceae and is mainly distributed in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and China. In the present study, Argyreia elliptica (Roth) Choisy (Convolvulaceae) is investigated histologically, which showed the development of various kinds of variant...

Argyreia sharadchandrajii Lawand & Shimpale, a new species from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India is described and illustrated. Argyreia sharadchandrajii is morphologically similar to A. pilosa Wight & Arn. but differs in habit, shape of leaves and bracts, indumentum and size of peduncle, sepal and berries. Notes on taxonomy and conservation...

Bonnaya sanpabloensis (Linderniaceae) previously reported from South China, Thailand and Philippines, is newly reported for the flora of India from Maharashtra. The species is distinct from other species of the genus in having flowers in terminal racemes, pedicels almost vertical in fruiting and densely pilose staminodes.

Proposal to change the conserved type of Ipomoea, nom. cons. (Convolvulaceae)

Total 35 species of Genus Argyreia from India are reported. All are documented in the form of herbaria, illustrations and photographs. All are updated for nomenclature. Also present IUCN status for each species is presented in the work.

Confusion regarding the identity of Argyreia hookeri C.B.Clarke and A. boseana Santapau & V.Patel, two closely similar species found in India are discussed. Notes on its distribution, morphological comparison and photographic images are provided for comparison and easy identification in the field.

Argyreia lawii C.B. Clarke, an endemic to Western Ghats of India is reported here as an after century collection. Detailed description and photo plates are given for easy identification and IUCN status of the species has been accessed.

Total 59 taxa of Genus IPOMOEA are reported from India. All are well illustrated with line drawing and photographs.

Ipomoea fulvicaulis (Hochst. ex Choisy) Boiss. ex Hallier f. (Convolvulaceae), recently collected from Nandi hills of Karnataka state, is reported here as a new record for the flora of India. A detailed taxonomic account, including description, illustrations and photographs are provided to facilitate easy identification.

Ipomoea acanthocarpa (Choisy) Hochst. ex Schweinf. & Asch. an African species is reported for the first time from India. Ipomoea laxiflora H.J.Chowdhery & Debta hitherto recorded from North India, is reported for the first time from Peninsular India. Detailed description, illustrations, photographs and taxonomic notes for both the species are provi...

In the earlier systems of classification only external morphological characters (phenetic),especially those of flower characters were utilized for the classification. But during last 8-10decades data from anatomy, embryology, palynology, cytology and more recentlyphytochemistry have been profitably utilized in taxonomic classification at various le...

Presented a poster in an International Symposium held at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Bonnaya sanpabloensis (Linderniaceae) previously reported from South China, Thialand and Philippines, is newly reported for the flora of India from Maharashtra. The species is distinct from other species of the genus in having flowers in terminal racemes, pedicels almost vertical in fruiting and densely pilose staminodes.

Bonnaya milindii (Linderniaceae), a new species from the Western Ghats of India is described and illustrated. The species is similar to Bonnaya sanpabloensis but differs in its petaloid staminodes and glabrous corolla.

The thesis carries screening of two endemic plants of family asteraceae viz., Adenoon indicum and Lamphrachaenium indicum. Both the species are endemic to Western Ghats of India. Both the species were screened for their phytochemical parameters like saponon, metals, anti-oxidant activities and anti-microbial and anti-tuberlosis activity. Also diffe...

In this study, karyotypes of three taxa in the genus Argyreia Lour. were examined. The chromosome counts for A. osyrensis and A. setosa were reported for the first time while somatic chromosome count of A. cuneata was confirmed. The three taxa studied were diploid with 2n = 2x = 30. Highest total chromosome length in Argyreia osyrensis was 54.25 μm...

The thesis contains phytochemcial analysis of three endemic species of Western Ghats of India viz., Barleria gibsonii, Pleocaulus ritchiei and Pinda concanensis. It also highlights the chemical parameters of essential oil of Pinda concanensis and its anti-microbial activities and also have antimicrobial activities of different solvent extracts of t...

The names Hyphaene dichotoma and Arenga wightii are typified. Citation anomaly in H. dichotoma has been clarified.

The names Hyphaene dichotoma and Arenga wightii are typified. Citation anomaly in H. dichotoma has been clarified.

The names Hyphaene dichotoma and Arenga wightii are typified. Citation anomaly in H. dichotoma has been clarified.

The names Ipomoea clarkei Hook.f. and I. barlerioides (Choisy) Benth. ex C.B. Clarke are lectotypified.

Added a species to flora of Maharashtra

Ipomoea aculeata and Ipomoea Deccan var. lobata is added to the Flora of Goa.

This paper presents a cyto-palynological study of four species of Convolvulaceae from the northern Western Ghats of India. Ipomoea clarkei and Operculina tansaensis are endemic to the region, whereas I. diversifolia and O. turpethum show wide distribution. A new cytotype with 2n = 28 was reported for I. diversifolia. The chromosome number 2n = 30 i...

Ipomoea salsettensis Santapau & Patel (Convolvulaceae) is rediscovered from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, after a lapse of 58 years. A detailed taxonomic description, illustration, photographs and relevant notes are provided.

Merremia rhyncorhiza (Dalzell) Hallier f. (≡ Ipomoea rhyncorhiza Dalzell) (Convolvulaceae) is lectotypified here.

India is one of the 12 mega diversity regions of the World. As India shows wide and richest floristic composition there are many large and diverse families of Angiosperms of which the family Convolvulaceae is one of them. There are about 55 genera and 1600 species of the family Convolvulacae throughout the world, while in India the family is repres...

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Typifications for three species of Argyreia from India.

The paper presents the SEM of Pollen of 34 species of five genera of Convolvulaceae.

Now a day there is a growing interest of pharmaceutical industries to replace synthetic chemicals by natural products with bioactive properties that are of plant origin. The aim of present study was to assess the endemic medicinal plant Adenoon indicum Dalz. of Western Ghats of India for its Phytochemicals, antioxidant properties and to determine p...

The species is restricted to high altitude plateaus and resembles F. nilgheriensis (Baker) Wight ex Cooke, a weak stemmed species, but differs in its erect, robust habit, broader, longer, lanceolate-acuminate stipules, and larger inflorescence (Billore and Hemadri 1982). The present work provides a detailed description of F. rollae, notes on typifi...

During the study of pteridophytes of Maharashtra authors were collected an interesting fern Cyclosorus interruptus (Willd.) H. Ito, which is recorded as new distributional record for Maharashtra. Their description, photographs and range of distribution is described here.

Essential oil of Pinda concanensis were extracted by hydrodistillation. Liquid chromatography mass spectroscopy (LCMS) analysis of the essential oil of seeds identified 30 compounds such as wightin, violanthin, tomentosanol D, Fraxin, Daphnin, Coumarin which are responsible to antioxidant activity. And the compounds like Voriconazole, Tridemorph, T...

Sixteen species of the tribe Merremieae Austin (Convolvulaceae) from India were morphometrically analyzed with the help of Principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis to explain the relationship between them. PCA showed that quantitative characters like corolla breadth, fruit breadth and length of paracot leaf play important role in bri...

Ipomoea tenuipes Verdc., an African species is recollected after a long gap from Maharashtra and the present collection confirms its existence in India. Brief description and relevant notes are provided here for easy identification.

Marchantia L. is the typical genus of the Marchantiaceae. Marchantia polymorpha L. is the only species recorded from North Konkan of Maharashtara. Marchantia linearis Lehm et Lindenb. is little known previously only from Lakkidi palam in Western Ghats of Kerala is newly reported from Maharashtra part of the Western Ghats of India.

Sixteen species of the tribe Merremieae Austin (Convolvulaceae) from India were morphometrically analyzed with the help of Principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis to explain the relationship between them. PCA showed that quantitative characters like corolla breadth, fruit breadth and length of paracot leaf play important role in bri...

Ipomoea tenuipes Verdc., an African species is recollected after a long gap from Maharashtra and the present collection confirms its existence in India. Brief description and relevant notes are provided here for easy identification.

Ipomoea ochracea (Lindl.) G. Don (Convolvulaceae), an African species is reported here for the first time from the Western Ghats of India. A detailed description, illustration and relevant notes are provided for easy iden-tification.

Diversity needs to be "conserved through use." Owing to the global need, the present study includes two underutilized berries, Carissa carandus and Eleagnus conferta, to explore their potential as supplementary food by evaluating their antioxidant activity and approximate chemical composition. Berries of E. conferta are a richer source of carotene,...

A new species of Eriocaulon, E. belgaumensis (Eriocaulaceae) is described and illustrated from the Western Ghats, India.

Summary A new species of Eriocaulon, E. belgaumensis (Eriocaulaceae) is described and illustrated from the Western Ghats, India.

Eriocaulon baramaticum Shimpale, Bhagat, R. B. Deshmukh et S. R. Yadav a new species from Baramati Tahsil of Pune District of Maharashtra is described and illustrated. It is similar to E. rajendrababui R. Ansari & N. P. Balakr. and differs in having male fl owers with two free sepals and eglandular petals.

The genus Sidastrum Baker f. represented by S. micranthum (A. St.-Hil.) Fryxell (Malvaceae) is reported fi rst time for Asia from Kolhapur district of Maharashtra State, India. Detailed description, illustration and notes on occurrence and distribution of the species are provided in the present paper.

It includes detailed information with coloured photographs of plants found in Baramati Tehsil of Pune district.It represents the eastern part flora of region with total 937 species and 424 coloured photo

Reference book, “Flora of Baramati” containing 994 taxa belonging to 938 species with 42 varieties & 14 sub-species, 577 genera & 136 families of flowering plants. Book is published with the auspicious hands of Shri. Sharadchandraji Pawar, Union Agricultural Minister, Govt. of India and in presence of Prof. Narendra Jadhav, Vice-Chancellor, Univers...

Five species of the genus Mussaenda L. are reported from Great Nicobar Island. Out of these M. nicobarica is described as a new species, M. wallichii G. Don is collected after Kurz's collection, M. frondosa L. and M. macrophylla Wall. are widely distributed species while for the Indian fl ora M. villosa Wall. ex Hook.f. is confi ned to Great Nicoba...

Artabotrys nicobarianus D. Das, endemic to the Great Nicobar Island, was recollected from the Campbell Bay National Park after a lapse of 33 years. Fruit of this species is described for the first time based on the present collection. Detailed description along with illustrations and field notes are provided.

Rennellia speciosa (Wallich ex Kurz) Hook. f. is reported for the first time from Great Nicobar Island. A detailed description, illustration and relevant notes are provided.