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Issue: Vol. 479 No. 3: 13 January 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-01-13
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.479.3.5
Page range: 287–294
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 1

Trichosanthes sunhangii (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from Hubei, China

School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, Yunnan, China
College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan, China
College of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Jishou University, Jishou 416000, Hunan, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Administration of Shennongjia National Park, Shennongjia 44241, Hubei, P.R. China
Central Herbarium of Uzbekistan, Institute of Botany, Academy Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent 100025, Uzbekistan
School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, Yunnan, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, Yunnan, China
new species Trichosanthes morphology molecular phylogeny Shennongjia Eudicots

Abstract

Trichosanthes sunhangii D.G.Zhang, Z.M.Li, Qun Liu & T.Deng, a new species of Cucurbitaceae, is described and illustrated. It was collected in Shennongjia Forestry District, Hubei province, east-central China. T. sunhangii is morphologically similar to T. kirilowii Maxim. and T. rosthornii Harms, but can be easily distinguished from them by its bracts, tendrils and fruits. Phylogenetic analyses based on three DNA barcode markers (ITS, matK and rpl20-rps12) indicated that two accessions of T. sunhangii were grouped together (PP=1.00, BP=100 and LP=100) in Sect. Foliobracteola.