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Issue: Vol. 282 No. 1: 26 October 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-26
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.282.1.3
Page range: 28–36
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 1

Periglossum podoptyches (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae), a new species from KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa

School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban, 4000 South Africa. chool of Environmental Sciences and Development, North-West University, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520 South Africa. National Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X101, Pretoria.
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban, 4000 South Africa.
Taxonomy endemic Schizoglossum-complex Asclepiadinae Eudicots South Africa

Abstract

Periglossum podoptyches is described as a new species from the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. As a rare species its conservation status is assessed as Vulnerable. This new species is closely related to both Periglossum mackenii and P. kassnerianum from which it differs mainly in having folded flaps of tissue at the base of the face of the restricted basal stalk of the staminal corona lobes. A comparative table with diagnostic morphological features and a key to the species of Periglossum are provided.