Vaccinium chaozhouense (Ericaceae), a new species from East Guangdong, China

By

Tong, Yi-Hua
Ye, Pei-Zhao
Ding, Jian-Hong
Huang, Wei-Chao
Huang, Wei
Ni, Jing-Bo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

236

Pages

113--119

Subjects

Endangered species , Morphology , taxonomy , Vaccinieae , Vaccinium sect. Bracteata

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.236.108732

 

Abstract

Vaccinium chaozhouense (Ericaceae), a new species from East Guangdong Province, China is described and illustrated. This new species is morphologically similar to V. wrightii by having flowers with persistent and leaf-like bracts, long pedicels, and white spherical-urceolate corollas, but is distinguished by having glandular trichomes on the abaxial surface of the leaf blade, shorter pedicels, sparsely pilose corolla ridges, and anther thecae longer than the tubules. A key to the new species and morphologically similar species is also provided.