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Issue: Vol. 309 No. 2: 13 June 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-13
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.309.2.3
Page range: 127–134
Abstract views: 17
PDF downloaded: 1

Novelties in Fimbristylis (Cyperaceae) from Zhejiang, China: two new species and a new variety

College of Life & Environment Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 16 Xuelin Street, Xiasha Higher Educational District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, People’s Republic of China.
College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, No. 588 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, People’s Republic of China.
College of Life & Environment Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 16 Xuelin Street, Xiasha Higher Educational District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, People’s Republic of China.
Administration of Fengyangshan Station, Zhejiang Fengyangshan-Baishanzu National Natural Reserve, Longquan, Zhejiang, 323700, People’s Republic of China.
Administration of Fengyangshan Station, Zhejiang Fengyangshan-Baishanzu National Natural Reserve, Longquan, Zhejiang, 323700, People’s Republic of China.
College of Life & Environment Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 16 Xuelin Street, Xiasha Higher Educational District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, People’s Republic of China.
Cyperaceae Fimbristylis new species new variety taxonomy Zhejiang of E China Monocots

Abstract

In preparation for the second edition of Flora of Zhejiang, two new species and a new variety of Fimbristylis, F. longquanensis, F. minuticulmis and F. stolonifera var. cylindrica, are described and illustrated in the present paper. Fimbristylis longquanensis is similar to F. complanata, but differs in being an annual habit with rhizomes absent, leaves 2–2.5 mm wide, bracts longer than or nearly equal to inflorescence, and nutlets smooth. Fimbristylis minuticulmis is simiar to F. diphylloides, but differs in having culms 2–12 cm tall, much shorter than leaves, spikelets broadly ovoid, obtuse at apex, scales acute at apex, stigmas 2, and nutlets biconvex. Fimbristylis stolonifera var. cylindrica differs from its autonymic variety in having the inflorescence simple, and spikelets cylindrical, 8–15 × 2.5–3 mm.