Vaccinium usneoides (Ericaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

By

Guo, Yongjie
Zhang, Ting
Ya, Jidong
Zhang, Wei
Shen, Xiu-Ying
Han, Zhoudong
Ni, Jing-Bo
Su, Jian-Yong
Tong, Yi-Hua

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

236

Pages

187--195

Subjects

Gaoligong Mountain , Morphology , Vaccinieae , Vaccinium arbutoides

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.236.112658

 

Abstract

Vaccinium usneoides (Ericaceae), a new species from Fugong County of Yunnan Province, China is described and illustrated. This new species belongs to Vaccinium sect. Calcicolus and is most similar to V. brachyandrum, but differs in its branches hanging down, much smaller leaf blades, shorter inflorescences and pedicels, non-glandular tomentellate or densely pubescent inflorescence rachis and pedicels, densely white-pubescent hypanthium and pilose filaments.