Vacciniumusneoides (Ericaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

Yong-Jie Guo; Ting Zhang; Ji-Dong Ya; Wei Zhang; Xiu-Ying Shen; Zhou-Dong Han; Jing-Bo Ni; Jian-Yong Su; Yi-Hua Tong

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.236.112658

Vacciniumusneoides (Ericaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

PhytoKeys. 2023 Dec 21:236:187-195. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.236.112658. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yong-Jie Guo^{1

2}, Ting Zhang¹, Ji-Dong Ya^{1

3}, Wei Zhang¹, Xiu-Ying Shen⁴, Zhou-Dong Han¹, Jing-Bo Ni^{5

6}, Jian-Yong Su⁷, Yi-Hua Tong^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
³ Academy of Biodiversity, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, 650224, Yunnan, China.
⁴ Fugong Branch of Nujiang Administration of Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Fugong, 673400, Yunnan, China.
⁵ CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, China.
⁶ Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden of Guangdong Province, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China.
⁷ South China National Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China.

Abstract

Vacciniumusneoides (Ericaceae), a new species from Fugong County of Yunnan Province, China is described and illustrated. This new species belongs to Vacciniumsect.Calcicolus and is most similar to V.brachyandrum, but differs in its branches hanging down, much smaller leaf blades, shorter inflorescences and pedicels, non-glandular tomentellate or densely pubescent inflorescence rachis and pedicels, densely white-pubescent hypanthium and pilose filaments.

Keywords: Gaoligong Mountain; Vaccinieae; Vacciniumarbutoides; morphology.

Yong-Jie Guo, Ting Zhang, Ji-Dong Ya, Wei Zhang, Xiu-Ying Shen, Zhou-Dong Han, Jing-Bo Ni, Jian-Yong Su, Yi-Hua Tong.