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Issue: Vol. 236 No. 2: 27 November 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-11-27
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.236.2.8
Page range: 191–195
Abstract views: 14
PDF downloaded: 1

Youngia purpimea (Asteraceae), a new species from Sichuan, China

Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation and Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation and Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation and Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation and Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
Compositae Crepidinae Eudicots China

Abstract

Youngia purpimea, a new species from southern Sichuan, China, is described and illustrated. This species is morphologically most similar to Y. szechuanica and Y. zhenyiana by having capitula with five yellow florets, but differs from the latter two by having leathery and undivided caudical leaves being glabrous on both surfaces and purplish red abaxially, leaf margins sparsely dentate, and also by brown pappus.