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Issue: Vol. 436 No. 2: 17 March 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-03-17
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.436.2.1
Page range: 97–103
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 49

Alocasia lihengiae, a new species of Araceae from Southern Yunnan

College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China Key Laboratory of Ethnomedicine (Minzu University of China), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100081, China
Alocasia lihengiae A. odora A. hypnosa Xishuangbanna New taxa Monocots

Abstract

Alocasia, a new species of Araceae from Jinuo Mountains, Yunnan, China is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to A. odora and A. hypnosa but differs from A. odora by purple-pink spathe and seasonally dormant habit, while differs from A. hypnosa by leaf blade with upwards basal lobes, milky yellow spadix and persistent purple-black stigma. The new species is terrestrial and grows in open roadside karst area.