Lycoris wulingensis, a dwarf new species of Amaryllidaceae from Hunan, China

By

Zhang, Si-Yu
Huang, Ying
Zhang, Pei
Zhu, Ke-run
Chen, Yong-bing
Shao, Jian-wen

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

177

Pages

1--9

Subjects

Amaryllidaceae , China , Lycoris wulingensis , Morphology , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.177.62741

 

Abstract

Lycoris wulingensis S.Y. Zhang, a new species from Hunan Province (central South China), is described and illustrated. This new species is a fertile diploid plant and its karyotype is 2n = 22. It is most similar to L. × haywardii in morphology, but the latter is a hybrid species and distributed in East China and the plant is much larger. Amongst the original species, L. wulingensis is similar to L. radiata, but differs from it in its flowers being rose-red (vs. red) and stamens and tepals are nearly the same length (vs. stamens significantly longer than tepals).