Oreocharis wumengensis, a new species of Gesneriaceae from northeastern Yunnan, China

Lei Cai; Fang-Pu Liu; Xiang-Bo Yi; Zhi-Ling Dao

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.157.33071

Oreocharis wumengensis, a new species of Gesneriaceae from northeastern Yunnan, China

PhytoKeys. 2020 Aug 26:157:113-119. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.157.33071. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Lei Cai^{1

2}, Fang-Pu Liu^{3

2}, Xiang-Bo Yi⁴, Zhi-Ling Dao¹

Affiliations

¹ Yunnan Key Laboratory for Integrative Conservation of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations/ Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
⁴ Yunnan Wumengshan National Nature Reserve Administration, Zhaotong 657000, Yunnan, China Yunnan Wumengshan National Nature Reserve Administration Zhaotong China.

Abstract

A new species of Gesneriaceae, Oreocharis wumengensis Lei Cai & Z.L.Dao from Wumeng Mountain area, Yanjin County, Yunnan Province, China, is described. The new species is morphologically similar to O. panzhouensis Lei Cai, Y.Guo & F.Wen in the shape of corolla, number of stigma and stamens, but it can be easily distinguished from this species by the leaf shape and indumentum characters of leaf blade, calyx and stamens. Detailed descriptions with photographs of the plant and holotype, and comparisons with morphologically similar species, are also provided.

Keywords: Oreocharis; Wumeng Mountain; flora of Yunnan; morphology; new taxon.

Lei Cai, Fang-Pu Liu, Xiang-Bo Yi, Zhi-Ling Dao.