Plant Diversity ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (05): 563-568.DOI: 10.7677/ynzwyj201514154

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Additional Notes on the Begonia Sect. Petermannia (Begoniaceae) from China

 WANG  Jian-1, CHEN  Wen-Hong-1, HUGHES  Mark2, YANG  Zhen-Zhen-1、3, SHUI  Yu-Min-1   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy
    of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China; 2 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;
    3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2014-11-12 Online:2015-09-25 Published:2015-01-08
  • Supported by:

    The National Natural Science Foundation of China (31070174)

Abstract:

 Begonia pellionioides YM. Shui & WH. Chen, a new species of the genus Begonia L. (sect. Petermannia (Klotzsch) A. DC., Begoniaceae), is described and illustrated. The new species is endemic to limestone areas in Southeastern Yunnan Province, China, and is most similar to Begonia hainanensis Chun & F. Chun but distinguished by its more elongated leaves with cuneate base and acuminate to caudate apex, tepals adaxially with spiny hairs and sharply triangular capsulewings with truncate superior margin. Besides, the unknown flower morphology of previously published Begonia sublongipes YM. Shui in Begonia sect. Petermannia is described.

Key words: Begonia, Begonia pellionioides, Begoniaceae, section Petermannia, Yunnan, China

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