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Issue: Vol. 409 No. 5: 15 July 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-15
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.409.5.3
Page range: 273–282
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 2

Cornus sunhangii (Cornaceae), a new species from Tibet (China)

School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Central Herbarium of Uzbekistan, Institute of Botany, Academy Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent 100025, Uzbekistan
CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Central Herbarium of Uzbekistan, Institute of Botany, Academy Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent 100025, Uzbekistan
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China
molecular evidence morphological evidence taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Cornus sunhangii, a new species from Bari, at an elevation of 1988 m, in north Mêdog County, Tibet, China, is described. It is morphologically similar to C. capitata, but differs in the infructescence size, the length of the peduncle, the number of trichomes. The status of C. sunhangii, which is the earliest divergent in Cornus subg. Syncarpea, was confirmed by phylogenetic analyses using four chloroplast markers (atpB, rbcL, matK and ndhF). It has potential economic benefits, since similar species of Cornus have been used as food, oil, wood production and ornament.