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Issue: Vol. 336 No. 1: 26 January 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-01-26
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.336.1.8
Page range: 95–99
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 2

Hemiboea crystallina, a new species of Gesneriaceae from karst regions of China and Vietnam

Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, Yunnan, China
Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, Yunnan, China University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
Center for Plant Conservation (CPC), Vietnam Union of Sciences and Technology Associations, No 25/32, lane 191, Lac Long Quân Rd, Nghia Dô, Cau Giay district, Ha Noi, Vietnam
Center for Plant Conservation (CPC), Vietnam Union of Sciences and Technology Associations, No 25/32, lane 191, Lac Long Quân Rd, Nghia Dô, Cau Giay district, Ha Noi, Vietnam
Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, Yunnan, China
China Gesneriaceae Hemiboea crystallina inflated node Vietnam Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of Gesneriaceae, Hemiboea crystallina Y.M.Shui & W.H.Chen from China and Vietnam, is described and illustrated. The new species is diagnostic by the combination of its inflated nodes, glabrous stem, glabrous and lanceolate leaves, 4-winged involucre, margin-reflected calyx segments and the glabrous surface inside corolla. Among the species without hairy ring inside corolla, its morphological distinctiveness from the most similar species, Hemiboea flaccida Chun ex Z.Y.Li, is discussed.