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Issue: Vol. 461 No. 1: 30 September 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-09-30
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.461.1.8
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 50
PDF downloaded: 3

Caryopteris alternifolia (Ajugoideae, Lamiaceae), a distinct new species from Guangdong, China

South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China.
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
Labiatae taxonomy molecular data Eudicots

Abstract

Caryopteris alternifolia (Ajugoideae, Lamiaceae), a new species from eastern Guangdong, China, is described based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic data. Both molecular and morphological evidence indicates that C. alternifolia is closely related to C. incana, but it is easily distinguished from the latter by its leaves alternate, mostly entire, 1–3 cm long, 0.15–0.4 cm wide and sessile, and cymes with 5 flowers (vs. leaves opposite, dentate, 3–4.5 cm long, 0.4–0.8 cm wide and with petioles 0.3–1.7 mm long, and cymes with more than 10 flowers).