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Issue: Vol. 230 No. 1: 6 October 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-10-06
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.230.1.4
Page range: 54–60
Abstract views: 20
PDF downloaded: 1

Aristolochia weixiensis, a new species of Aristolochiaceae from Yunnan, China

College of Life Sciences, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, Henan, China Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai 201602, China
College of Life Sciences, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, Henan, China
Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai 201602, China
Department of Life Sciences of Lijiang Teachers College, Lijiang 674100, Yunnan, China
Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai 201602, China
Aristolochia weixiensis China new species taxonomy Magnoliids

Abstract

Aristolochia weixiensis, a new species from northwest Yunnan, China, is described. A. weixiensis is affinis to A. moupinensis with similar leaf shape, but differs from the latter in the limb with dark purple colour and dense papillae, ca. 3.5 cm in diam., throat with light brown colour and dense brownish red patches, 13–16 mm in diam. Meanwhile, A. weixiensis is similar to A. wuana with similar leaves in shape, but differs in fruit and the size of leaf.