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Issue: Vol. 357 No. 2: 22 June 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.357.2.5
Page range: 126–132
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 34

Chamaelirium viridiflorum (Melanthiaceae), a new species from Jiangxi, China

College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou510275, China
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou510275, China
College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou510275, China
China Chamaelirium Melanthiaceae New species Taxonomy Monocots

Abstract

Chamaelirium viridiflorum (Melanthiaceae), a new species from southern Jiangxi, China, is described and illustrated. It is similar to C. koidzumiana in their ellipitic or ovate leaf blade and slender petiole, but differs by its zygomorphic flowers and unequal tepals. Besides Chamaelirium viridiflorum is also similar to C. shiwandashanensis in their actinomorphic flowers, but distinguished by its spatulate to obovate leaf blade, distinct petiole and 0.8–1.1 cm long tepals. This new species has an obvious feature that the color of tepals is still greenish at the end of the flowering period.