Agapetesheana, a new species of A.ser.Longifiles (Ericaceae) from Yunnan, China

Yi-Hua Tong; Ying Bai; Jian-Ming Feng; Ji-Dong Ya

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.180.69667

Agapetesheana, a new species of A.ser.Longifiles (Ericaceae) from Yunnan, China

PhytoKeys. 2021 Aug 9:180:133-139. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.180.69667. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Yi-Hua Tong^{1

2}, Ying Bai³, Jian-Ming Feng⁴, Ji-Dong Ya⁴

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization & Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden of Guangdong Province, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou China.
² Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou China.
³ Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Honghe Prefecture, Honghe Avenue, Mengzi, Yunnan, 661100, China Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Honghe Prefecture Mengzi China.
⁴ Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanhei Road 132, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming China.

Abstract

Agapetesheana Y. H. Tong & J. D. Ya (Ericaceae), a new species from Lüchun Xian, Yunnan Province, China is described and illustrated. This new species is assigned to Agapetessect.Agapetesser.Longifiles Airy Shaw. It is closest to A.inopinata Airy Shaw and A.oblonga Craib, but differs in having bead-like tubers, leaf blade with a wholly serrulate margin, subulate and much longer calyx lobes, much larger corollas that are carmine, green at the apex and maroon on angles, and longer stamens without spurs on the back.

Keywords: China-Vietnam border; Huanglian Shan; epiphytic; morphology.

Yi-Hua Tong, Ying Bai, Jian-Ming Feng, Ji-Dong Ya.