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Issue: Vol. 660 No. 1: 16 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-16
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.660.1.7
Page range: 75-80
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 4

Resurrection and emended description of Reevesia lofouensis (Malvaceae)

Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Management Office of Guangdong Luofu Mountain Provincial Nature Reserve, Huizhou, Guangdong, China
Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Eudicots Synonym Taxonomy Morphological data China

Abstract

Reevesia lofouensis (Malvaceae) from Guangdong, China, has been treated as a synonym of R. thyrsoidea recently. However, R. lofouensis differs from R. thyrsoidea in having densely yellowish stellate-tomentose branchlets and petioles, relatively large inflorescence with more flowers. Therefore, R. lofouensis is reinstated as a distinct species. An emended description of R. lofouensis with a detailed description of the flower is also provided here.

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