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Issue: Vol. 630 No. 2: 14 Dec. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.630.2.7
Page range: 154-158
Abstract views: 172
PDF downloaded: 20

Primulina liangwaniae (Gesneriaceae), a new species from Guangdong, China

State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden of Guangdong Province; South China Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; China. South China National Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; China. Panyu Central Hospital; Guangzhou 511402; China
State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden of Guangdong Province; South China Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; China. South China National Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; China
Panyu Central Hospital; Guangzhou 511402; China
limestone flora morphology taxonomy Yingde City Eudicots

Abstract

Primulina liangwaniae, a new species of Gesneriaceae endemic to Guangdong, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is close to P. versicolor in having similar shape and color of corollas, but differs in the significantly smaller leaf blades with dense spreading villus and pubescence and crenate margin, much shorter peduncles, smaller bracts with margin being crenate on upper part and entire on lower part, much shorter pedicels, and narrowly cordate stigma. The flowering times of these two species are also different. A provisional conservation status of DD (Data Deficient) is given for P. liangwaniae.

 

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