Five new species of the genus Primulina (Gesneriaceae) from Limestone Areas of Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region, China

Shu Li; Zi-Bing Xin; Wei-Chuen Chou; Yi Huang; Bo Pan; Stephen Maciejewski; Fang Wen

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.127.35445

Five new species of the genus Primulina (Gesneriaceae) from Limestone Areas of Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region, China

PhytoKeys. 2019 Jul 19:127:77-91. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.127.35445. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Shu Li^{1

2}, Zi-Bing Xin¹, Wei-Chuen Chou², Yi Huang², Bo Pan^{1

2}, Stephen Maciejewski^{3

4}, Fang Wen^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, CAS & Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China.
² Gesneriad Conservation Center of China (GCCC), Guilin Botanical Garden, CAS, Guilin 541006, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
⁴ The Gesneriad Society, 2030 Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA.

Abstract

Five new species of Primulina (Gesneriaceae) are described and illustrated here, namely P.purpureokylin F. Wen, Yi Huang & W. Chuen Chou, P.persica F. Wen, Yi Huang & W. Chuen Chou, P.cerina F. Wen, Yi Huang & W. Chuen Chou, P.niveolanosa F. Wen, S. Li & W. Chuen Chou and P.leiyyi F. Wen, Z.B. Xin & W. Chuen Chou. The characteristic traits of these species, together with photographs, detailed descriptions, notes on etymology, distribution, and habitat, as well as comparisons with morphologically similar species, are provided.

Keywords: Biodiversity; flora of Guangxi; karst; lithophilic plant; new taxon; taxonomy.

Publication types

Review