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Type: Article
Published: 2020-09-29
Page range: 277–284
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Taxonomic notes on the Alocasia-Colocasia Clade (Araceae) in China I: Alocasia yunqiana, a new species from Tongbiguan Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province

Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison 53706, USA. Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison 53706, USA.
Bazi Art Collection & Botanical Garden, Mengzi 661199, China.
Dehong Institute of Forestry Science, Ruili 678600.
Dehong Forestry and Grassland Bureau, Mangshi 678400.
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
Herbarium, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla 666303, China.
Aroideae Pistia clade Colocasia-Alocasia clade flora of China plant taxonomy Monocots

Abstract

A new Alocasia species, Alocasia yunqiana, is described and compared with its morphologically related taxa. The novelty is characterized by an oblong-naviculiform-shaped spathe-limb that is strongly hooded and slightly glaucous to glossy during its entire anthesis, a spadix with a sterile interstice and an appendix that are much shorter and thinner than the staminate zone, as well as the dimorphic synandroidia. Detailed information containing description, colored plates and illustration are provided herein.