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Issue: Vol. 238 No. 1: 9 December 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-12-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.238.1.5
Page range: 92–96
Abstract views: 18
PDF downloaded: 1

Acranthera burmanica, a new species of Rubiaceae from Kachin State, Myanmar

Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
Forest Research Institute, Forest Department Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
Forest Research Institute, Forest Department Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
Acranthera biodiversity Kachin morphology Myanmar taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Acranthera burmanica, a new species of Rubiaceae from Kachin, Myanmar, is here described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to A. sinensis, but can be easily distinguished from the latter by its stem and branches densely strigose throughout; ovate leaves; calyx distinctly shorter than corolla tube, lobes lanceolate, apex attenuate; stipules triangular, apex acute not cuspidate; lower part of filaments connate into a tube.