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Issue: Vol. 329 No. 2: 28 November 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-11-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.329.2.13
Page range: 193–196
Abstract views: 497
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Paris qiliangiana (Melanthiaceae), a new species from Hubei, China

Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resource, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar
Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resource, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar
Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resource, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
Paris qiliangensis Melanthiaceae New species Hubei China Monocots

Abstract

Paris Linnaeus (1753: 367) comprises 28 species of perennial herbs, mainly distributed in eastern Asia (Osaloo & Kawano 1999, Liang & Vitor 2000, Li et al. 2017, Ji et al. 2017, Wang et al. 2017). These species are also known as chong-lou in Chinese and are used as traditional medicines, the thick rhizome being used as analgesic, haemostatic, anticarcinogen, antineoplastic and anti-inflammatory (Wang et al. 2015, Li et al. 2015, 2017, Ji et al. 2017). This genus traditionally was placed in Liliaceae or Trilliaceae, which was divided into two genera based on floral merosity, namely Trilliun Linnaeus (1753: 340) and Paris (Li 1984; Zomlefer 1997; Li 1998). Paris was revised recently by molecular phylogenetic approaches and placed in Melanthiaceae (Ji et al. 2006, APG IV 2016, Kim et al. 2016).