Lobelia hongiana (Campanulaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China

By

Li, Zhizhong
Wei, Neng
Liu, Xiaoyan
Chen, Jinming
Hu, Guangwan
Wang, Qingfeng.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

95

Pages

27-36

Subjects

Hypsela , Lobelia chinensis , Lobelia loochooensis , Southern China

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.95.20245

 

Abstract

Lobelia hongiana, a new species of Campanulaceae from Guangxi, South China, is described and illustrated here. This new species is most similar to L. chinensis and L. loochooensis, but differs by its elliptic-obovate or oblanceolate leaf, 2.5–3 mm long greenish-carmine hypanthium, 5 or 6 calyx lobes, purplish-white corolla, with yellowish-green blotches at the base of lower lobes, glabrous filaments, 7–8 mm long broadly obconic capsule. Molecular phylogenetic analysis has been conducted based on ITS and two chloroplast sequences (atpB and rbcL) and 14 taxa in Lobelia are included. L. hongiana is well supported as a new species by the evidence from both morphology and molecular phylogeny.