Vaccinium motuoense (Ericaceae), a new species from Xizang, China

By

Tong, Yi-Hua
Zhao, Wang-Lin
Wang, Bing-Mou
Liu, En-De
Cai, Jie
Guo, Yongjie

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

181

Pages

105--111

Subjects

Morphology , new species , Vaccinium dunalianum

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.181.71522

 

Abstract

Vaccinium motuoense (Ericaceae), a new species from Motuo County, Xizang Autonomous Region, China is described and illustrated. This new species belongs to Vaccinium sect. Calcicolus and is morphologically most similar to V. dunalianum, but differs in having yellowish-brown tomentose young branches, petioles and inflorescence rachis, leaf blades with 2–3(–4) pairs of secondary veins, usually all basal and with fine veins impressed adaxially and urceolate to spherical corollas.