Homalium glandulosum (Salicaceae), a new species from Vu Quang National Park, North Central Vietnam

Shuichiro Tagane; Viet Hung Nguyen; Nguyen Van Ngoc; Hoang Thanh Son; Hironori Toyama; Chen-Jui Yang; Tetsukazu Yahara

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.58.6816

Homalium glandulosum (Salicaceae), a new species from Vu Quang National Park, North Central Vietnam

PhytoKeys. 2016 Jan 12:(58):97-104. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.58.6816. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Shuichiro Tagane¹, Viet Hung Nguyen², Nguyen Van Ngoc³, Hoang Thanh Son⁴, Hironori Toyama¹, Chen-Jui Yang⁵, Tetsukazu Yahara¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.
² Vu Quang National Park, Ha Tinh, Vietnam.
³ Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan; Department of Biology, Dalat University, 01 - Phu Dong Thien Vuong, Dalat, Vietnam.
⁴ Silviculture Research Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Ha Noi, 10999, Vietnam.
⁵ Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abstract

Homalium glandulosum Tagane & V. H. Nguyen, from Vu Quang National Park in northern Vietnam, is newly described. This species is characterized by distinct glands, often stalked, at the base of the lamina and along the margin of the stipules and bracteoles. Illustrations, DNA barcodes of the two regions of rbcL and matK, and a key to the species of Homalium in Vietnam are also provided.

Keywords: Homalium; Salicaceae; Vietnam; Vu Quang National Park; new species; taxonomy.