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Issue: Vol. 296 No. 2: 15 February 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-02-15
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.296.2.10
Page range: 197–200
Abstract views: 33
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Clematis wuxiensis (Ranunculaceae), a new species from Chongqing, China

Key Laboratory of Eco–Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, Chongqing, China
Key Laboratory of Eco–Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, Chongqing, China
Key Laboratory of Eco–Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, Chongqing, China
Administrative Bureau of Yintiaoling National Nature Reserve, Wuxi 405800, Chongqing, China
Key Laboratory of Eco–Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, Chongqing, China
Clematis section Cheiropsis morphology taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Clematis wuxiensis (Ranunculaceae), a new species from Wuxi, Chongqing, China, is described and illustrated. It is closely similar to both C. montana and C. gracilifolia in having one or several flowers together with leaves arising from axillary buds of old branches, four spreading sepals, glabrous stamens and linear filaments, but differs from them in the usually 2-pinnate leaves with nine leaflets (vs. always ternate or ternate to 1-pinnate with three to five leaflets).