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Issue: Vol. 265 No. 2: 14 June 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.265.2.10
Page range: 169–172
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

Oreorchis yachangensis (Orchidaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China

Flower Research Institute of Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning 530007, China
Administrative Bureau of Yachang Orchid National Nature Reserve, Baise 533209, China
Guangxi Yachang Forestry Farms, Baise 533209, China
Administrative Bureau of Yachang Orchid National Nature Reserve, Baise 533209, China
Administrative Bureau of Yachang Orchid National Nature Reserve, Baise 533209, China
Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China
Oreorchis yachangensis Orchidaceae Monocots

Abstract

Oreorchis yachangensis, a new species of Orchidaceae from Yachang Orchid National Nature Reserve, Guangxi, China, is described and illustrated. The new species most closely resembles Oreorchis patens in having samll flowers, yellow sepals and petals, both the petals and the lip with purple spots, but is distinguished from O. patens and the other species in Oreorchis by having lip oblong, mid-lobe 2-lobed. O. yachangensis is restricted to a wet valley in Yachang Orchid National Nature Reserve, southern China.