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Issue: Vol. 298 No. 2: 10 March 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-10
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.298.2.4
Page range: 147–157
Abstract views: 17
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) from Jiangxi Province, China, based on morphological and molecular data

Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, China
2State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Aquifoliaceae Chinese flora Ilex sect. Paltoria Jiangxi flora Eudicots China

Abstract

A new species, Ilex venusta, is described and illustrated from the Luoxiao Mountains, Jiangxi Province, China. It is included in a phylogenetic analysis using nuclear ribosomal nrITS and two plastid DNA markers (the atpB-rbcL and trnL-F spacers). This species is a member of Ilex sect. Paltoria., which can be distinguished from other sections in Ilex by their solitary pistillate inflorescences. The new species is similar to I. viridis and I. triflora, but it differs in its narrow leaves and slender trunk and branches.