Morphological description The measurements and description of the new species, Oreocharis oriolus, were based on living plants in the field and the specimens at herbarium (CDBI & IBK), the morphological characters were measured using ImageJ v1.53k (Schneider et al., 2012) and are described using the terminology proposed by Harris and Harris (1994), Wang et al. (1998). Studied voucher specimens including the type materials and additional silica-gel dried leaves are stored at CDBI and IBK.