Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 238 No. 3: 16 December 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-12-16
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.238.3.10
Page range: 293–297
Abstract views: 19
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Rhododendron (Ericaceae) from Shangri-La, NW Yunnan, China

Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, P. R. China
Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650204, P. R. China
Dobbies Garden Centre, UK-DD2 Perth, Scotland, UK.
Flower Research Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Kunming 650201, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, P. R. China
Eudicots Ericaceae China

Abstract

Rhododendron Linnaeus (1753: 392) exhibits great diversity and roughly 1,025 species are prized in the temperate parts of the world for their horticultural value (Chamberlain et al. 1996). There are approximately 680 species in six subgenera in China, of which more than 400 are endemic (Fang & Min 1995). However, the number of Rhododendron species known is increasing, with many new species being described after the publishing of Flora of China (Fang et al. 2005, Chen et al. 2012, Mao et al. 2013, Ma et al. 2015, Mao & Bhaumik 2015).