A new species of Epirixanthes (Polygalaceaea) from Imbak Canyon, Sabah, Borneo

HIROKAZU TSUKAYA; MONICA SULEIMAN; HIROSHI OKADA

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.266.2.9

Issue: Vol. 266 No. 2: 22 June 2016

Type: Article

Published: 2016-06-22

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.266.2.9

Page range: 146–150

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**A new species of Epirixanthes (Polygalaceaea) from Imbak Canyon, Sabah, Borneo**

HIROKAZU TSUKAYA⁺⁻
MONICA SULEIMAN⁺⁻
HIROSHI OKADA⁺⁻

Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Bio-Next Project, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Yamate Build. #3, 5-1, Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan

Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan Institute of Natural Environmental Sciences, Hyogo Prefectural University, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1546, Japan

Borneo Epirixanthes Imbak Canyon Malaysia mycoheterotrophic plant Polygalaceae Sabah Eudicots

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Abstract

The mycoheterotrophic genus Epirixanthes Blume is a small genus of Polygalaceae. Here, we describe a new species of Epirixanthes, E. confusa Tsukaya, M. Suleiman & H. Okada, discovered in the mostly unexplored Imbak Canyon, Sabah, Borneo. Along with photographs and illustrations of this new species, a revised key to the genus is presented.