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Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-18
Page range: 55–64
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Primulina rubribracteata, a new species of Gesneriaceae from southern Hunan, China

South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhang Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, Guangxi 541006, China
Gesneriaceae IUCN Primulina rubribracteata new species Eudicots China

Abstract

Primulina rubribracteata Z.L. Ning & M. Kang, a new species of Gesneriaceae from southern Hunan, China, is described and illustrated. The new species morphologically resembles P. polycephala (Chun) Mich. Möller & A. Weber and P. porphyria X.L. Yu & Ming Li, but it can be easily distinguished by having ovate or broadly ovate leaf blade, purple red bracts and calyx, shorter peduncle and pedicel, thoroughly purple corolla, unbranched cymes with 1–4 flowers, and densely glandular pubescent inside corolla lobes.