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Issue: Vol. 428 No. 2: 9 January 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-01-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.428.2.10
Page range: 153–158
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Ilex sect. Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) from Guangdong, China

Guangzhou Linfang Ecology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China. Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
Guangzhou Linfang Ecology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China.
Gudoushan Provincial Nature Reserve, Jiangmen 529222, Guangdong, China.
Gudoushan Provincial Nature Reserve, Jiangmen 529222, Guangdong, China.
Gudoushan Provincial Nature Reserve, Jiangmen 529222, Guangdong, China.
Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
Guangdong flora Ilex jiangmenensis shrub South China Eudicots

Abstract

A new species, Ilex jiangmenensis, is described from Gudoushan Provincial Nature Reserve of Jiangmen City, a coastal city in southern Guangdong, China. It was observed to grow in rock crevices or beside the evergreen broad-leaved forests in the mountains of Gudoushan and Nanfengshan at an elevation of 50–550 m. The new species differs from its morphologically most similar species I. pingheensis by its much smaller leave blade, acute or short acuminate apex of leave blade, pistillate inflorescences with fascicles 1–2(–4)-flowered, and staminate inflorescences with individual branches of the fascicles (1)–3-flowered.