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Issue: Vol. 282 No. 4: 1 November 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-11-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.282.4.7
Page range: 296–300
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 1

Rhododendron longipedicellatum (Ericaceae), a new species from Southeastern Yunnan, China

Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China Kunming Botanical Garden, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
Dobbies Garden Centre, UK-DD2 Perth, Scotland, UK.
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China Kunming Botanical Garden, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China Kunming Botanical Garden, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
Ericaceae Rhododendron new species China Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of Rhododendron (Ericaceae) in sect. Vireya subsect. Pseudovireya from Malipo County, Southeast Yunnan, China, R. longipedicellatum, is described and illustrated. The new species is most similar to R. rushforthii but differs in its arrangement of leaves, the shape and color of the lamina, length of the petiole and the size of the calyx lobes. It also resembles R. trancongii and R. Datiandingense, but differs in its color and shape of the lamina, the leaf apex, lengths of the petiole, pedicel and stamens, and the indumentum of the ovary.