Two new species of Henckelia (Gesneriaceae) from Southeastern Yunnan, China

Lei Cai; De-Tuan Liu; Pin Zhang; Zhi-Ling Dao

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.130.33988

Two new species of Henckelia (Gesneriaceae) from Southeastern Yunnan, China

PhytoKeys. 2019 Aug 29:130:151-160. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.130.33988. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Lei Cai^{1

2

3}, De-Tuan Liu^{1

2}, Pin Zhang^{1

2}, Zhi-Ling Dao^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Yunnan Key Laboratory for Integrative Conservation of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China.
² Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China.
³ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China.

Abstract

Two new species of Gesneriaceae, Henckelia nanxiheensis Lei Cai & Z.L.Dao, sp. nov. and H. multinervia Lei Cai & Z.L.Dao, sp. nov. from southeastern Yunnan, China, are described with color photos. The diagnostic characters of the two new species, together with photographs, detailed descriptions, distribution and habitat, as well as comparisons with morphologically similar species, are also provided.

Keywords: Gesneriaceae; Henckelia; China; flora of Yunnan; new taxon.