title: Sonerila nairii (Melastomataceae) - a new species from the southern Western Ghats, India.
abstract: The new species Sonerila nairii (Melastomataceae) is here described from Pothumala of the Nelliampathy hill ranges of Western Ghats of Kerala, India. Morphologically it most closely resembles Sonerila erecta and Sonerila pulneyensis from which differs by the form of the stem, leaves, peduncle, pedicel, inflorescence, pubescence of the stem, leaves and hypanthium, and by the form of stamens and stigma.
authors.affiliation: Environmental Resources Research Centre, Peroorkkada, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, PIN 695005, Indias.
authors.forename: Soumya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Murugan
authors.affiliation: Post Graduate and Research Department of Botany, Govt. Victoria College (University of Calicut), Palakkad, Kerala, PIN 678001, India.
authors.forename: Maya C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Nair
keywords: India; Kerala; Nelliampathy; Palakkad; Sonerila; Western Ghats; critically endangered