Vacciniumchaozhouense (Ericaceae), a new species from East Guangdong Province, China is described and illustrated. This new species is morphologically similar to V.wrightii by having flowers with persistent and leaf-like bracts, long pedicels, and white spherical-urceolate corollas, but is distinguished by having glandular trichomes on the abaxial surface of the leaf blade, shorter pedicels, sparsely pilose corolla ridges, and anther thecae longer than the tubules. A key to the new species and morphologically similar species is also provided.
Keywords: Endangered species; Vaccinieae; Vaccinium sect. Bracteata; morphology; taxonomy.
Yi-Hua Tong, Pei-Zhao Ye, Jian-Hong Ding, Wei-Chao Huang, Wei Huang, Jing-Bo Ni.