The newest published taxa of Gesneriaceae from China before 31 December 2015 (19)
2017-06-17 New taxa in China

No.19   LEI CAI, RUN-ZHENG CHEN, ZHI-JIAN YIN, GUO-XUE ZHANG, WEN-HONG CHEN & YU-MIN SHUI

Tremacron hongheense, a new species of Gesneriaceae from Southeastern Yunnan, China

Plant Diversity and Resources 37(6)：733—736.

ABSTRACT

A new species of Gesneriacea from Honghe County, Southeastern Yunnan, China, Tremacron hongheense W.H.Chen & Y.M. Shui, is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to Tremacron forrestii Carib, but differs by its leaf blade adaxially sparsely long setose (vs. densely white appressed pubescent and sparsely rusty-brown villous), corolla tube outside short white glandular (vs. nearly glabrous), corolla lobes red and thickening at apex, especially adaxial lip (vs. yellow and not thickening), stamens 1.6-1.8 cm long (vs. 0.4-1.2 cm long), staminode 0.5-1.4 cm long (vs. 0.2-0.4 cm long)(Cited from Cai et al., 2015).

The newest published taxa of Gesneriaceae form China before 31 December 2015 (19)

Fig. 1 Tremacron hongheense A. plant with flowers and young fruits; B. Flower with stamens and style; C. opened corolla with stamens and staminode, D. Calyx and pistil with disc. Drawn by Mrs Wang Ling(Cited from Cai et al., 2015).