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Issue: Vol. 411 No. 4: 24 July 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-24
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.411.4.2
Page range: 264–274
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 3

Primulina lianchengensis (Gesneriaceae), a new species from Danxia landform of Fujian, China: Evidence from morphological and molecular analyses

College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China Office of Scientific Research and Development, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Sanming Landscape Administration, Sanming 365000, Fujian, China
College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Chiritopsis limestone flora phylogenetic analysis taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Primulina lianchengensis B.J.Ye & S.P.Chen (Gesneriaceae) is described and illustrated from Fujian Province in the Southeast of China. Then phylogenetic analyses of the genus were presented using nuclear ribosomal ITS and two plastid markers (atpB-rbcL and rpL32-trnL). Morphological analysis indicates that P. lianchengensis is similar to P. danxiaensis, P. depressa, P. lechangensis and P. yangshanensis, but it differs in the base and margin of leaf, petiole, bract, length and shape of corolla, numbers of staminodes and stigma lobe. Molecular analysis reveals that P. lianchengensis is genetically similar to P. danxiaensis and P. yangshanensis.