Lysimachia tianmaensis (Primulaceae), a new species from Anhui, China

Ying Wang; Wen Ma; Shoubiao Zhou; Kun Liu

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.98.23751

Lysimachia tianmaensis (Primulaceae), a new species from Anhui, China

PhytoKeys. 2018 May 16:(98):117-124. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.98.23751. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Ying Wang¹, Wen Ma², Shoubiao Zhou^{1

3}, Kun Liu¹

Affiliations

¹ Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resources, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
² College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China.
³ Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Water and Soil Pollution Control and Remediation, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, China.

Abstract

A new species of Lysimachia (Primulaceae), Lysimachia tianmaensis K. Liu, S.B. Zhou & Ying Wang sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Jinzhai County, Anhui, China. It is endemic to Dabieshan Mountain, China. The new species has yellow flowers and belongs to the subgenus Lysimachia section Nummularia series Grammicae. It is very easily distinguishable from other related species by having alternate leaves with brown patches beneath and an auriculated leaf base.

Keywords: China; Lysimachia; species nova; taxonomy.