Popowia bachmaensis (Annonaceae), a new species from Bach Ma National Park, Central Vietnam

Nguyen Van Ngoc; Shuichiro Tagane; Hoang Thi Binh; Hironori Toyama; Norikazu Okabe; Chinh Nguyen Duy; Tetsukazu Yahara

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.65.8792

Popowia bachmaensis (Annonaceae), a new species from Bach Ma National Park, Central Vietnam

PhytoKeys. 2016 Jul 12:(65):125-31. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.65.8792. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Nguyen Van Ngoc¹, Shuichiro Tagane¹, Hoang Thi Binh¹, Hironori Toyama¹, Norikazu Okabe¹, Chinh Nguyen Duy¹, Tetsukazu Yahara¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.

Abstract

A new species, Popowia bachmaensis Ngoc, Tagane & Yahara, sp. nov. is described from Bach Ma National Park in Thua Thien Hue Province, Central Vietnam. This species is morphologically similar to Popowia pisocarpa (Blume) Endl. ex Walp., but can be readily distinguished from it by its lower stems, smaller leaves, shorter flowering pedicels, shorter carpels, longer sepals and inner petals. A detailed description, comprising illustrations, and supplemented with DNA barcodes of the two regions of rbcL and matK, are provided.

Keywords: Annonaceae; Bach Ma National Park; Popowia; Vietnam; new species.