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Issue: Vol. 650 No. 3: 29 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.3.6
Page range: 262-268
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 2

Peliosanthes yangchunensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from Guangdong, China

College of Life Sciences, Zaozhuang University, Zaozhuang 277160, Shandong, China
Qingyuan Forestry Bureau, Qingyuan 511500, Guangdong, China
Qingyuan Forestry Bureau, Qingyuan 511500, Guangdong, China
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yatsen University, 510275 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yatsen University, 510275 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Asparagaceae Peliosanthes South China western Guangdong Monocots

Abstract

A new species named Peliosanthes yangchunensis are described, which is endemic to Yangchun, western Guangdong, South China. The new species is closely related to P. macrostegia, but differs from the latter in that the flowers smaller, star-like and with strongly revolute, spreading and narrowly oblong tepals, style conical, ovary hexagonal in cross section, and fruit ovoid-globose, flower period September to October. Comparisons with other closely related species are also provided.

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