Primulina jiuyishanica (Gesneriaceae), a new species from Hunan, China

Kun Liu; De-Chang Meng; Zhang-Jie Huang; Stephen Maciejewski; Zi-Bing Xin

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.162.53763

Primulina jiuyishanica (Gesneriaceae), a new species from Hunan, China

PhytoKeys. 2020 Oct 7:162:37-44. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.162.53763. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Kun Liu¹, De-Chang Meng², Zhang-Jie Huang^{2

3}, Stephen Maciejewski^{3

4}, Zi-Bing Xin^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Jindong Forest Farm, Yongzhou 426191, China.
² Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China.
³ Gesneriad Conservation Center of China (GCCC), Guilin Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China.
⁴ The Gesneriad Society, 2030 Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA.

Abstract

Primulina jiuyishanica K. Liu, D.C. Meng & Z.B. Xin, a new species of Gesneriaceae from Hunan, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically similar to Primulina fimbrisepala (Hand.-Mazz.) Yin Z. Wang, but differs in its elliptic to broadly elliptic leaf blade with broadly cuneate base, peduncle densely pubescent with sparse glandular hairs, corolla throat with no purple spots inside, the yellow patch in the throat densely glandular-pubescent and pistil densely glandular-pubescent. Photographs and descriptions of the new species are provided below.

Keywords: Didymocarpoideae; Primulina fimbrisepala; flora of Hunan; taxonomy.

Kun Liu, De-Chang Meng, Zhang-Jie Huang, Stephen Maciejewski, Zi-Bing Xin.