A new species of Saxifraga in section Ciliatae subsection Gemmiparae (Saxifragaceae) from Sichuan province, China

QINGBO GAO; ZHUOXIN ZHANG; SHILONG CHEN; RICHARD J. GORNALL

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.6

Issue: Vol. 333 No. 2: 9 January 2018

Type: Article

Published: 2018-01-09

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.6

Page range: 228–234

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**A new species of Saxifraga in section Ciliatae subsection Gemmiparae (Saxifragaceae) from Sichuan province, China**

QINGBO GAO⁺⁻
ZHUOXIN ZHANG⁺⁻
SHILONG CHEN⁺⁻
RICHARD J. GORNALL⁺⁻

Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University

Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

University of Leicester, Department of Genetics, Leicester

Saxifraga section Ciliatae subsection Gemmiparae floral morphology trnL-F ITS DNA sequences Eudicots

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Abstract

Saxifraga viridipetala Z-X. Zhang & Gornall (Saxifragaceae) is described as a new species. Originating from south-western Sichuan province in China, morphological and molecular evidence (based on chloroplast trnL-F and nuclear ITS DNA sequences) indicate that S. viridipetala is closely related to S. gemmipara, in section Ciliatae. The new species can be diagnosed by its narrowly elliptic, pale green petals spotted purple in the proximal 4/5 part.