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Issue: Vol. 689 No. 1: 20 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-20
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.689.1.4
Page range: 40-52
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Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China VII: the identity of Z. bambusifolium and a new subspecies

State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 510650, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. South China National Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé carbonate rock Liliaceae Tupistra bambusifolia Zingiber bambusifolium subsp. magenteum Zingiber lingyunense Zingiber tenuifolium Monocots

Abstract

Zingiber bambusifolium (≡Tupistra bambusifolia), a species described by Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé in 1906, is re-collected from its type locality in Guizhou Province, China, 121 years after it was originally collected. Zingiber lingyunense, which was originally described from Guangxi Province, is confirmed to be conspecific with Z. bambusifolium. A new subspecies, Z. bambusifolium subsp. magenteum, which occurs in southwest Guizhou Province and eastern Yunnan Province is described. It differs from the typical subspecies by labellum and lateral staminodes being pale yellow with a pale to dark purplish red tinge (vs consistently cream in Z. bambusifolium subsp. bambusifolium), broader lamina (3–5 cm vs 1.8–3.5 cm), pale yellow (vs beige to peach coloured or dark purplish black) rhizome and vegetative rhizome units sometimes with a pseudo-neck 1–10 cm long (vs vegetative rhizome units without pseudo-neck).

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How to Cite

Bai, L. (2025) Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China VII: the identity of Z. bambusifolium and a new subspecies. Phytotaxa 689 (1): 40–52. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.689.1.4