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Issue: Vol. 405 No. 1: 29 May 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.405.1.1
Page range: 1–14
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

Semiaquilegia danxiashanensis (Ranunculaceae), a new species from Danxia Shan in Guangdong, southern China

Hunan Monitoring Center of Forest Resources and Ecological Environment, Hunan Prospecting Designing and Research General Institute for Agriculture Forestry and Industry, Changsha 410007, China
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China
Department Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
Government of Zhoutian Town, Renhua County, Shaoguan 512300, Guangdong, China
College of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China
Dichocarpum ITS morphology taxonomy trnL-F Eudicots

Abstract

Based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic studies, Semiaquilegia danxiashanensis, a new species from Danxia Shan in northern Guangdong, southern China, is described and illustrated. This species is easily distinguishable from each of other three known species in the genus by characters of the flowers and fruits. In addition, molecular phylogenetic analyses of both the nuclear ITS and the plastid trnL-F region strongly supported S. danxiashanensis as a separate species from other species of Semiaquilegia. We provide a detailed morphological and habitat description, distribution, as well as colour photographs and illustrations of the new species.