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Issue: Vol. 236 No. 1: 25 November 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-11-25
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.236.1.10
Page range: 94–96
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Polygonatum campanulatum (Asparagaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, CN-410081, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN-100049, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN-100049, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN-100049, China
Asparagaceae China IUCN Red List new species Polygonatum campanulatum Monocots

Abstract

Polygonatum Miller (1754: without pagination) is characterized by thick fleshy creeping sympodial rhizomes with elongated aerial stem and fleshy berries (Tamura et al. 1997). This genus contains 60 or more species in the world and widely distributed in the warm-temperate to boreal zones of the Northern Hemisphere with five species in Europe and three species in North America and concentrated (about 50 species) in East Asia (from Russia and Japan to Himalaya) (Tang 1978, Conran & Tamura 1998, Chen & Tamura 2000, Utech 2002, Judd 2003, Ohara et al. 2007). Chen & Tamura (2000) recognized 39 species for China, 20 of them being endemic to the country (see also Tang 1978). Since then, Floden (2014) and Zhao & He (2014) described two new taxa, both from Yunnan, China.