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Issue: Vol. 311 No. 1: 23 June 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-06-23
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.311.1.10
Page range: 97–100
Abstract views: 171
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Bulbophyllum menglaense (Orchidaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan. CN-666303, P.R.China.
Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan. CN-666303, P.R.China.
State Key Lab of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanxincun 20, Xiangshan, Beijing, CN-100093, P. R. China.
Bulbophyllum new species section Lemniscata Taxonomy Monocots

Abstract

Bulbophyllum menglaense, a new species of Orchidaceae from China are described and illustrated by colorful photos. Bulbophyllum menglaense is similar to B. cariniflorum and B. triste, but can be easy distinguished from them by pseudobulbs conical (vs. pseudobulbs ovoid in B. cariniflorum; subglobose in B. triste); scape longer than leaves (vs. scape shorter than leaves both in B. cariniflorum and B. triste); petals narrowly lanceolate, marings ciliate (vs. petals entire both in B. cariniflorum and B. triste); stelidia lanceolate (vs. stelidia deltoid in B. cariniflorum, narrowly lanceolate in B. triste).