No. 12  SHI-LIAN HUANG, LONG-FEI FU, JING-JIAN LI, YU-ZHEN GE, WEN MA, FANG WEN and SHOU-BIAO ZHOU

Primulina duanensis sp. nov. (Gesneriaceae) from Guangxi, China

Nordic Journal of Botany 33: 209–213.

ABSTRACT

A new species of Gesneriaceae, Primulina duanensis Fang Wen & S. L. Huang is described and illustrated from Guangxi, China. It differs from P. ronganensis (D. Fang & Y. G. Wei) Mich. Möller & A. Weber in having broadly lanceolate bracts, being 1–3-flowered and possessing hairs on the upper part of the anthers where connected with the filaments; from P. sclerophylla (W. T. Wang) Yan Liu in having narrowly ovate to ovate leaf blade, leaf blade margin interrupted shallowly crenate, broadly lanceolate bracts, being 1–3-flowered and possessing hairs on the upper part of the anthers where connected with the filaments; from P. shouchengensis (Z. Y. Li) Z. Y. Li in having narrowly ovate to ovate leaf blade, leaf blade margin interrupted shallowly crenate, broadly lanceolate bracts and possessing hairs on the upper part of the anthers where connected with the filaments.

Figure 1. Primulina duanensis sp. nov. (A) habit, (B) bracts, (C) opened corolla exposing stamens and staminodes, (D) pistil, (E) stigma, (F) stamen, (G) lateral view of anther showing the pubescence. Drawn from the holotype by S. Q. He and F. Wen.

Figure 2. Primulina duanensis sp. nov. (A) – (B) habitat, (C) habit, (D) lateral view of corolla, (E) frontal view of corolla, (F) top view of the corolla, (G) pistil, (H) opened corolla, (I) abaxial and adaxial surfaces of leaf. Photo by L. F. Fu and F. Wen.

Figure 3. (A) Primulina shouchengensis, (B) P. ronganensis, (C) P. sclerophylla. (1) habit, (2) flower. Photo (A) – (B) by F. Wen and (C) by X. Hong.