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Issue: Vol. 351 No. 2: 1 June 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.351.2.6
Page range: 176–180
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

Asplenium cyrtosorum (Aspleniaceae), a new fern from Yunnan, China

State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Tue-Design Group Corporation Limited, Suzhou 215021, China
Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, U.S.A.; Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 416, Chengdu 610041, China
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
asplenioid fern Critically Endangered species new species Pteridophytes

Abstract

A new species, Asplenium cyrtosorum, is described and illustrated from Pu’er, southwestern Yunnan, China. It was observed to grow in humid and shady conditions in the tropical seasonal rainforest. The new species differs from the morphologically most similar species A. trapezoideum by its shape of rhizome, length of rhizome scales, structure of laminae, pinna pairs and rachis structure.