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Issue: Vol. 203 No. 3: 25 March 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.203.3.8
Page range: 287–291
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 33

Pueraria grandiflora (Fabaceae), a new species from Southwest China

Centre for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, Chin
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
Panzhihua Cycad Nature Reserve, No. 386 Renmin Road, Panzhihua, Sichuan 617000, China
Panzhihua Cycad Nature Reserve, No. 386 Renmin Road, Panzhihua, Sichuan 617000, China
Dry-hot valley Fabaceae Phaseoleae tuber

Abstract

A new species, Pueraria grandiflora, (Fabaceae, Phaseoleae), is described and illustrated. It resembles Pueraria tuberosa, but differs in lobed leaflets, larger flowers, single or once branched inflorescences, and flowering and fruiting season. This species is only known from dry-hot valleys in Sichuan and Yunnan, and is rare and narrowly distributed.