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Published: 2014-12-09
Page range: 49–54
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Primulina glandaceistriata (Gesneriaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China

Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P.R. China.
Gesneriad Conservation Center of China (GCCC), Guangxi Institute of Botany, No. 85, Yanshan Town, Guilin, 541006, China.
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China.
Gesneriaceae Guangxi New species Primulina Primulina glandaceistriata Guangxi flora

Abstract

Primulina glandaceistriata from Lingchuan County, Guangxi, is illustrated and described as a new species. It is morphologically close to P. dryas and P. beiliuensis, but can be easily distinguished by its leaf blades oval, ovate or nearly rounded, and both leaf surfaces being sparsely purple strigulose and the hairs with a papillose base; shorter peduncle 7.5–9.5 cm long that is densely erectly purple pilose; bracts inside densely erectly purple pilose; corolla pale purple to purple, inner surface glabrous and  with sparse purple spots and two obviously brown stripes, and the outer surface piloglandulose; staminodes longer, ca. 7.5 mm long. The conservation status of this new species was assessed as “Critically Endangered” (CR).