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Legume additions to the flora of China

Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China; Ningbo Botanical Garden, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, China
Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China
Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China; Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
Desmodium Fabaceae Flemingia Mucuna new record Pueraria Stizolobium taxonomy Teyleria Yunnan Eudicots

Abstract

Six legume taxa are added to the flora of China. Among them, two native taxa, Pueraria bella and Teyleria barbata, and one naturalized species, Desmodium uncinatum, are reported as newly recorded species, while Flemingia vestita is rediscovered and Flemingia yunnanensis is reinstated based on morphological evidence. Mucuna pruriens var. hirsuta is also newly recorded to China, and M. incurvata is considered as a new synonym of it. Comprehensive descriptions, photographs, conservation status assessments, and some taxonomic notes on these taxa, as well as updated keys to the taxa of Desmodium, Flemingia, Pueraria, and Mucuna subg. Stizolobium distributed in China are also given.

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