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Issue: Vol. 660 No. 2: 18 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-18
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.660.2.7
Page range: 171-180
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Synotis carnosifolia (Asteraceae, Senecioneae), a new species from Yunnan, China

Plant Science Research Center, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China
Plant Science Research Center, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China, State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Plant Conservation and Utilization in Southern China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
Plant Science Research Center, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China, State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Plant Conservation and Utilization in Southern China
Eudicots Compositae Yunnan morphology molecular phylogeny new taxon

Abstract

Synotis carnosifolia (Asteraceae, Senecioneae), a new species from Baoshan in western Yunnan province, China, is described and illustrated. By its habit S. carnosifolia is most closely similar to S. cavaleriei and S. changiana. It differs from S. cavaleriei in its petioles 1–3 cm long, leaf blade elliptical, orbicular or obovate and carnose. It can readily be distinguished from the latter by its leaf blade elliptical, orbicular or obovate, 4–7 × 2–6 cm, carnose in texture, abaxially arachnoid or subglabrous, adaxially glabrous, and blades base rounded. The taxonomic position of the new species within Synotis is also corroborated by evidence from phylogenetic analyses based on ITS and ETS sequence data.

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