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Issue: Vol. 616 No. 2: 26 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.616.2.3
Page range: 139-148
Abstract views: 126
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Sinosenecio qii (Asteraceae, Senecioneae), a hitherto imperfectly known species from southern Hunan, China

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization; South China Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; Guangdong; China; Center of Conservation Biology; Core Botanical Gardens; South China Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; Guangdong; China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049; China
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization; South China Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; Guangdong; China; Center of Conservation Biology; Core Botanical Gardens; South China Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; Guangdong; China
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization; South China Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; Guangdong; China; Center of Conservation Biology; Core Botanical Gardens; South China Botanical Garden; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510650; Guangdong; China
chromosome number Compositae morphology taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Sinosenecio qii (Asteraceae, Senecioneae) was described on the basis of a fruiting plant from Jianghua county in southern Hunan province, China. This species has been imperfectly known because of the scantiness of material. Based on the results of our careful observations of the morphological characters of living plants within a population of this species at its type locality and the examination of its chromosome number, here we determine that S. qii is related to S. globiger in having epappose and glabrous achenes, polar and radial anther endothecial cell wall thickenings and a chromosome number of 2n = 48, but it is distinctive in having scapiform (vs. leafy) stems with only radical (vs. radical and cauline) leaves subentire (vs. shallowly 3–5-lobed), and fewer ray florets (8 vs. 13). The morphological description of S. qii is amended.

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