Abstract
Based on field investigations and a review of relevant literature and specimens, Agapetes leiocarpa is shown to be conspecific with A. atrosanguinea and thus is reduced as a synonym under the latter. The floral morphology of A. camelliifolia is described for the first time based on living collections from the wild. Revised descriptions, color plates and taxonomic notes of these two species are also provided.
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Tong, Y.H., Wang, B.M. & Xia, N.H. (2019) Agapetes yingjiangensis (Ericaceae), a new epiphytic species of A. ser. Longifiles from Yunnan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany 37 (1): e02171. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.02171
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Banik, D. (2012) A note on Agapetes atrosanguinea Airy Shaw: an endemic species in India. In: Maiti, G. & Mukherjee, S.K. (Eds.) Multidisciplinary approaches in angiosperm systematics, vol. 2. Publication Cell, University of Kalyani, pp. 517–519.
Banik, D. & Sanjappa, M. (2014) Agapetes. In: Sanjappa, M. & Sastry, A.R.K. (Eds.) Fascicles of Flora of India, Fascicle 25, Ericaceae. Botanical Survey of India, St. Joseph’s Press, pp. 287–389.
Don, G. (1834) A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, vol. 3. J.G. & F. Rivington, London, 867 pp.
Fang, R.Z. & Stevens, P.F. (2005) Agapetes. In: Wu, Z.Y. & Raven, P.H. (Eds.) Flora of China, vol. 14. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, pp. 504–517.
Huang, S.H. (1987) New taxa of the genus Agapetes D. Don ex G. Don from Xizang. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 25 (4): 314–318.
Huang, S.H. (1991) Agapetes. In: Fang, R.C. (Ed.) Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, vol. 57 (3). Science Press, Beijing, pp. 165–207.
Marquand, C.V.B. (1929) The botanical collection made by Captain F. Kingdon Ward in the eastern Himalaya and Tibet in 1924–1925. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 48 (321): 149–229. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1929.tb00587.x
Tong, Y.H. (2014) A systematic study of the genus Agapetes D. Don ex G. Don (Ericaceae). PhD Thesis, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, pp. 1–224.
Tong, Y.H. (2016) Agapetes xiana sp. nov. (Ericaceae) from Xizang, China. Phytotaxa 252 (4): 289–292. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.252.4.6
Tong, Y.H., Wang, B.M. & Xia, N.H. (2019) Agapetes yingjiangensis (Ericaceae), a new epiphytic species of A. ser. Longifiles from Yunnan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany 37 (1): e02171. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.02171
Wang, L.Y., Tan, Y.H. & Yang, B. (2021) Agapetes nana, a newly recorded species of Ericaceae from China. Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Botany 29 (4): 409– 412. https://doi.org/10.11926/jtsb.4326
Yang, B., Li, J.W., Li, H.T., Zhou, L.M. & Tan, Y.H. (2021) Agapetes putaoensis, a newly recorded species of Agapetes (Ericaceae) from China. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica 41 (5): 889–891. https://doi.org/10.7606/j.issn.1000-4025.2021.05.0889