Vacciniummotuoense (Ericaceae), a new species from Xizang, China

Yi-Hua Tong; Wang-Lin Zhao; Bing-Mou Wang; En-De Liu; Jie Cai; Yong-Jie Guo

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.181.71522

Vacciniummotuoense (Ericaceae), a new species from Xizang, China

PhytoKeys. 2021 Sep 10:181:105-111. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.181.71522. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Yi-Hua Tong^{1

2}, Wang-Lin Zhao³, Bing-Mou Wang⁴, En-De Liu⁵, Jie Cai⁶, Yong-Jie Guo^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization & Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden of Guangdong Province, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China.
² Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China.
³ Motuo Observation and Research Center for Earth Landscape and Earth System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Linzhi, 860712, China.
⁴ Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, 511402, China.
⁵ CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China.
⁶ Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China.
⁷ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China.

Abstract

Vacciniummotuoense (Ericaceae), a new species from Motuo County, Xizang Autonomous Region, China is described and illustrated. This new species belongs to Vacciniumsect.Calcicolus and is morphologically most similar to V.dunalianum, but differs in having yellowish-brown tomentose young branches, petioles and inflorescence rachis, leaf blades with 2-3(-4) pairs of secondary veins, usually all basal and with fine veins impressed adaxially and urceolate to spherical corollas.

Keywords: Vaccinium dunalianum; Morphology; new species.

Yi-Hua Tong, Wang-Lin Zhao, Bing-Mou Wang, En-De Liu, Jie Cai, Yong-Jie Guo.