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Issue: Vol. 677 No. 1: 12 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.677.1.7
Page range: 102-108
Abstract views: 15
PDF downloaded: 2

Pittosporum napoense (Pittosporaceae), a new species from limestone areas of Guangxi, China

State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Functional Phytochemicals Research and Utilization, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, Guangxi, 541006, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Functional Phytochemicals Research and Utilization, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, Guangxi, 541006, China
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Functional Phytochemicals Research and Utilization, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, Guangxi, 541006, China
State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China. Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Plant Conservation and Utilization in Southern China, Guangzhou, 510650, China.
limestone flora morphology new taxon Pittosporum south-western Guangxi Eudicots

Abstract

Pittosporum napoense, a new species of Pittosporaceae is described and illustrated from limestone areas of Guangxi, China. Morphologically, it is most similar to P. kerrii in paniculate inflorescences with many corymbs, inflorescence axis with ferruginous pubescence, and oblate capsule dehiscing by 2 valves, but it can be easily distinguished from the latter by the indumentum of leaf blade and calyx, the colour of petals, the quantity of ovules and the length of filament. Photographs of this new species, as well as a table to distinguish it from P. kerrii, are provided. The threatened status of the new species is also assessed.

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