Material and Methods
One of the authors discovered some intriguing specimens in Jammu and
Kashmir in 2022 while conducting a field study that were remarkably
similar to Psammogeton . These specimens were discovered to be
very distinct from Psammogeton species after thorough analysis in
the Life Science Research Lab of the Government College for Women,
Parade Ground. The specimens were mounted on the herbarium sheets using
the accepted technique (Jain and Rao 1977). The pictures were produced
with the help of a binocular stereoscope. Parts of the specimens,
particularly the blooms, were cooked in warm water for a minute to
enable stereoscopic observations. All measurements are from herbarium
and live specimens. According to descriptions in the taxonomic
literature (Boissier 1872, Clarke 1879, Hiroe and Constance 1958,
Kitamura 1960, Nasir 1972, Babu 1977, Sharma and Kachroo 1981, Hedge et
al. 1987, Assadi et al. 2008, Ghazanfar and Edmondson 2013, Pimenov et
al. 2019) and comparison with the herbarium specimens in POWO 2023 and
different herbaria including K, RRLH, and E, following Thiers (2015)
revealed that specimens indeed represent new taxa both genus as species.
The terminology is used following (Kljuykov et al. 2004, Hickey and
King, 2007 ).