Plant Diversity ›› 1982, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (04): 1-3.

• Articles •    

CLASSIFICATION, DISTRIBUTION AND PHYLOGENY OF THE GENUS ENKIANTHUS

Hsu Ting-zhi   

  1. Kunmming Institute of Botany,Academia sinica
  • Online:1982-08-25 Published:1982-08-25

Abstract: The genus Enkianthus is one of the genera of Ericaceae, It contains 13 species, distributing in eastern Asia. Many studies of the genus Enkianthus made by predecessors did not have divide the infrageneric taxa and discuss evOlutionary trend of the genus. The present author divides the genus into 3 sections(Sect.Ⅰ. Enkianthus, Sect. Ⅱ.Racemuss and Sect. Ⅲ. Monanthus)and also discusses the evolutionary trend of the genus. In this paper 1 new specios has been discribed, with the figure of the type specimen.

Key words: classification, distribution, genus