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Issue: Vol. 626 No. 1: 15 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-15
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.626.1.6
Page range: 51-59
Abstract views: 148
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Tirpitzia meiguensis (Linaceae), a new species from southwest Sichuan (China)

Sichuan Academy of Forestry; 610081; Chengdu; People’s Republic of China.
Sichuan Academy of Forestry; 610081; Chengdu; People’s Republic of China.
Ecological Environment College; Chengdu University of Technology; 610059; Chengdu; People’s Republic of China.
Department of Biology; Zunyi Normal College; 563006; Zunyi; People’s Republic of China.
Department of Biology; Zunyi Normal College; 563006; Zunyi; People’s Republic of China.
Department of Biology; Zunyi Normal College; 563006; Zunyi; People’s Republic of China.
Department of Biology; Zunyi Normal College; 563006; Zunyi; People’s Republic of China.
Endemic herbaceous plant diversity Tirpitzia sinensis wingless seeds Eudicots

Abstract

Tirpitzia meiguensis, a new species from Meigu County, Sichuan Province, China, is herein described and illustrated. Although its herb-like semi-shrub habit, toothed leaf margins, and seeds without a membranous wing are not characteristics that are seen in the three formerly-reported Tirpitzia species, other characteristics are morphologically related to T. sinensis; these include white flowers, terminal cymes, a four-loculed ovary with two ovules per locule, and a four-valvate capsule. Furthermore, phylogenetical analysis based on the internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear genes confirmed that this new species is clearly a member of Tirpitzia.

 

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