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Issue: Vol. 267 No. 3: 7 July 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-07-07
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.267.3.7
Page range: 233–236
Abstract views: 28
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Cardamine kuankuoshuiense (Brassicaceae), a new species from Guizhou, China

Forestry College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou, P. R. China
Hunan Medication Vestibule School, Changsha 410208, Hunan, P. R. China
College of Life Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou, P. R. China
Forestry College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou, P. R. China
Guizhou Kuankuoshui National Nature Reserve Bereau, Suiyang, 563300, Guizhou, P. R. China
Guizhou Kuankuoshui National Nature Reserve Bereau, Suiyang, 563300, Guizhou, P. R. China
Brassicaceae Cardamine kuankuoshuiense China new species Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of the genus Cardamine Linn.(Brassicaceae), Cardamine kuankuoshuiense M. T. An, Yun Lin & Y. B. Yang is described, illustrated and photographed from Suiyang County, Guizhou Province, SW China. This species was found growing on damp precipice or between moist rock crevices in evergreen broad-leaved forests or mixed needle-leaved and evergreen broad-leaved forests in carst mountains at altitudes of 1400–1430 m. The new species is related to both Cardamine griffithii J. D. Hook. & Thomson and Cardamine multijuga Franch., but differs from both of them by herbs 15–25 cm tall, scapose, with a few stolons, stems terete, cauline leaves absent.