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Issue: Vol. 676 No. 2: 10 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-10
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.676.2.5
Page range: 169-180
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Ophioglossum hongii (Ophioglossaceae), a new species from Xizang, China

College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China. Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China.
State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China
Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China
Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China
Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
chloroplast genome Himalayas phylogeny pteridophytes taxonomy

Abstract

Ophioglossum hongii (Ophioglossaceae) is described as a new species from the plateau area of Xizang, China. It was recorded as the species O. nudicaule previously, but obviously differs in its shorter sporophores and the conspicuous persistent petiole bases at the top of rhizome. O. hongii is similar to O. polyphyllum in morphology, but it can be distinguished from the latter by plant size, trophophyll shape, fertile stalk and exospore ornamentation. O. hongii is the sister to the clade (O. polyphyllum, O. engelmannii) according to molecular phylogenetic analysis of seven plastid fragments (atpB, matK, psbA-trnH, rbcL, rps4, rps4-trnS, and trnL-F). Detailed taxonomic description, distribution, ecology, conservation status and chloroplast genome resources are provided.

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