Open AccessA new species of Chirita (Gesneriaceae) from Yunnan, China
Author(s) -
XU HAN,
LI ZHENYU,
JIANG HONG
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
botanical journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.872
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1095-8339
pISSN - 0024-4074
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00913.x
Subject(s) - gesneriaceae , bract , biology , calyx , botany , white (mutation) , southern china , china , genetics , gene , inflorescence , political science , law
A new species of Gesneriaceae, Chirita maguanensis Z.Y.Li, H.Jiang & H.Xu, is described from Southern Yunnan, China. It is similar to C. eburnea Hance in its large, fleshy, white and parallel‐veined bracts, but differs by having broad and oblique leaves with a repand–crenate or crenate margin, suborbicular bracts, membranous, white calyx, purple corolla‐tube, 2‐parted lower lip of stigma and lower disc. © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2008, 158 , 269–273.