Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China III: Z. ventricosum, a new species from Yunnan, and notes on three closely related species

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 261 (2) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIN BAI ◽  
JANA LEONG-ŠKORNIČKOVÁ ◽  
NIAN-HE XIA ◽  
YU-SHI YE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Taxonomic Studies ◽  
Wide Geographic Distribution ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Zingiber ventricosum, endemic to Yunnan Province of southwestern China, is described and illustrated. It is similar to Z. oligophyllum, Z. thorelii and Z. xishuangbannaense in having much-reduced ligules, usually elongated petioles, flower shape and glabrous ovaries. Zingiber ventricosum, however, is readily distinguished from its three relatives by having erect peduncles and convex bracts that are inflated at their bases and acuminate and wide-spreading at their apices. These four species belong to Zingiber sect. Cryptanthium and together compose the informal “Z. oligophyllum complex”. This complex has a rather wide geographic distribution that extends from southern China to Thailand, Laos and southern Vietnam and to Taiwan, China. The three previously described species are revised based on a study of herbarium specimens, as well as living plants. Zingiber xishuangbannaense, previously regarded as conspecific with Z. thorelii, is resurrected here. Some of the previous records of Z. thorelii from Thailand are assigned to Z. xishuangbannaense, while the remaining records represent an as-yet unidentified taxon. Zingiber oligophyllum, previously reported as endemic to Taiwan, is now recorded for southeastern mainland China and Hong Kong. Descriptions, colour plates, distribution maps and preliminary IUCN conservations assessments for the four species are provided, together with a key to these species. Lectotypes for Z. oligophyllum and Z. xishuangbannaense are designated here, and the previous lectotypification of Z. thorelii is narrowed to a single specimen. Based on the latest IUCN criteria, Z. ventricosum is proposed to be Critically Endangered (CR), while the other three species qualify as least concern (LC).

Morphology and molecular phylogeny of ornamental freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae) from China with the description of a new species

Crustaceana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (10) ◽  
pp. 1201-1220
Author(s):  
Qinghua Chen ◽  
Wenjian Chen ◽  
Yuanwei Hu ◽  
Ka Yan Ma ◽  
Zhaoliang Guo
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
A New Species

Abstract This study dealt with three species of ornamental palaemonid freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium, based on morphological and molecular analysis. Macrobrachium pentazona He, Gao & Guo, 2009; M. laevis Zheng, Chen & Guo, 2019; and M. bilineare sp. nov. are distinguishable from closely related species by segmental ratios, spination of the second pereiopods and the slender scaphocerite. Macrobrachium bilineare sp. nov. can easily be recognized in the field by its bright colour pattern. Molecular evidence of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI), also supports the characterization of this new species, raising the total number of Macrobrachium spp. known from China to 41. Detailed description, illustrations, colour photographs, habitat information, distribution maps and features of conservation significance are also briefly discussed.

A new species of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Fujian, southeastern China

Zootaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4205 (6) ◽  
pp. 549 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHIYONG YUAN ◽  
YUNKE WU ◽  
JIAJUN ZHOU ◽  
JING CHE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Lateral Side ◽  
Southeastern China ◽  
Amphibian Species ◽  
Long Tail ◽  
Gill Filaments ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Nd2 Gene

New amphibian species have been constantly discovered throughout southern China, including from areas close to heavily populated cities that remain poorly surveyed for amphibian diversity. We describe a new species of the newt genus Paramesotriton from Fujian, a developed province on the southeastern coast of mainland China. The mitochondrial genealogy suggests that the new species is the sister taxon to Paramesotriton hongkongensis, separated by an uncorrected pairwise distances of 5.8% at the ND2 gene fragment analyzed. In addition to the genetic divergence, the new species can be readily differentiated from its congeners by having: a very rough skin; a continuous, orange, vertebral ridge; few warts on each side of the vertebral ridge; numerous small irregular orange-red or yellow spots on the chin, venter, underside of axillae, flanks, lateral side of the tail, base of limbs and cloaca; a small groove at the base of the vomerine tooth series; relatively long tail, relatively flat cloaca in females; normally developed eyes, and the absence of vestigial gills and gill filaments in adults. 

A new species of the genus Aristochroa Tschitscherine, 1898 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pterostichini) from Yunnan, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4286 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
SAEED AZADBAKHSH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the genus Aristochroa Tschitscherine, 1898 (Coleoptera: Carabidae), namely Aristochroa nozari sp. n., is described and illustrated from Yunnan Province, China. The new species is compared with closely related species. 

scholarly journals Phallus haitangensis, a new species of stinkhorn from Yunnan Province, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 280 (2) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUILI LI ◽  
XUELAN MA ◽  
PETER E. MORTIMER ◽  
SAMANTHA C. KARUNARATHNA ◽  
JIANCHU XU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Its Sequence ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
A New Species

Four specimens of Phallus were collected during surveys in a Pinus armandii forest in Baoshan, Yunnan Province, China. Macro- and micro-characteristics, together with Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) sequence data, showed that the four specimens belong to a new species, here named Phallus haitangensis. The ITS phylogenetic analyses, morphological descriptions, color photographs, and line drawings are provided, and compared with closely related species in the genus.

Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of Russula (Russulaceae) from southern China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 202 (2) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Kun Li ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Ye Yuan ◽  
Zheng Cao ◽  
Jun Feng Liang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
A New Species

Russula subrutilans sp. nov., a new species of Russula is described from southern China. It is unique for having buff pink to light congo-pink pileus, distant ventricose to subventricose lamellae with rare lamellulae, globose to broadly ellipsoid spores with bluntly conical warts forming a partial reticulum, and narrowly clavate to clavate cheilocystidia and pleurocysitidia with variable tips. Phylogenetic relationships among the new species and other closely related species in the genus are inferred based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region.

Dendrodontia hyphopaxillosa (Basidiomycota, Polyporaceae), a new species with dense hyphal pegs from southern China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 156 (3) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengjie Li ◽  
Haisheng Yuan
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
A New Species

Dendrodontia hyphopaxillosa, a new epithelioid species from southern China in Polyporaceae is described and illustrated. The species is characterized by resupinate, adnate, effused basidiocarps, densely distributed cylindrical hyphal pegs, frequently branched contorted dendrohyphidia and small ellipsoid to subcylindrical basidiospores. Discriminating characters between the new species and closely related species are discussed, and an identification key to the species of Dendrodontia is provided.

Alphaea alfreda, a new species from China and Myanmar (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4623 (2) ◽  
pp. 396-400
Author(s):  
ANTON V. VOLYNKIN ◽  
AIDAS SALDAITIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Wing Pattern ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

The arctiine genus Alphaea Walker, 1855 is distributed in North and North East India, Nepal, southern China and northern Indochina. The genus was recently reviewed by Dubatolov & Kishida (2005). It is subdivided into three subgenera, Alphaea, Flavalphaea Dubatolov & Kishida, 2005 and Nayaca Moore, 1979 and includes 10 valid species. During a lepidopterological expedition to the north-western part of China’s Yunnan Province in May of 2018, an undetermined species of Alphaea was collected. The Chinese specimens have the wing pattern very similar to that of A. (Flavalphaea) khasiana (Rothschild, 1910), but red and black abdomen (that is orange and black in A. khasiana). 

A revision of the dark-bellied, stream-dwelling snakes of the genus Hebius (Reptilia: Squamata: Natricidae) with the description of a new species from China, Vietnam and Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4911 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-61
Author(s):  
PATRICK DAVID ◽  
GERNOT VOGEL ◽  
TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN ◽  
NIKOLAI L. ORLOV ◽  
OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Species Status ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
Full Species ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
A New Species

Species of the genus Hebius Thompson, 1913 with 17 or 19 dorsal scale rows at midbody and an overall dark venter are reviewed, including the two species previously known as Parahelicops annamensis Bourret, 1934 and Pararhabdophis chapaensis Bourret, 1934. Specimens with 17 scale rows are morphologically similar to Hebius venningi (Wall, 1910), which is here redefined based on external morphological characters such as scalation, and dorsal and ventral patterns. Consequently, Natrix nigriventer Wall, 1925 is resurrected from its synonymy with Hebius venningi, whereas Natrix taronensis Smith, 1940, previously considered a subspecies of H. venningi or a full species by some authors but without justification, is here confirmed to full species status. Another group of species, mostly similar in coloration and pattern to the H. venningi group but with 19 dorsal scale rows, includes H. modestus (Günther, 1875), H. deschauenseei (Taylor, 1934) and a new species which is described herein based on specimens from northern Vietnam, southern China and north-eastern Thailand due to distinct morphological differences. We also provide updated taxonomic accounts for the species of this group, including an identification key and distribution maps. 

Verbascum duzgunbabadagensis (Scrophulariaceae), a new species from eastern Anatolia, Turkey

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 181 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faik Ahmet Karavelioğulları ◽  
Ebru YÜCE ◽  
Birol Başer
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Seed Morphology ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
A New Species

Verbascum duzgunbabadagensis (Scrophulariaceae) is described and illustrated as a new species endemic to eastern Anatolia, Turkey. In this study, diagnostic morphological characters of this and closely related species (V. luciliae and V. rupicola) are discussed. Pollen and seed morphology of the new species and of similar taxa are documented. The seeds of this group are brown in color and oblong in V. luciliae and V. rupicola, whereas they are dark brown in color and ovate in shape in V. duzgunbabadagensis. Furthermore, distribution maps for the three taxa are provided.

Aspidistra leucographa sp. nov. (Asparagaceae) from Guizhou, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 306 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
CHUN-YU ZOU ◽  
BO PAN ◽  
MENG-QI HAN ◽  
CHUN-RUI LIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
Se Asia ◽  
A New Species

Aspidistra Ker Gawler (1822: 628) comprises more than 160 species in subtropical SE-Asia, mainly distributed in southern China and adjacent northern Vietnam (Li 2004, Tillich 2005, 2014). In recent years, many new species have been discovered and described from Guizhou Province, southwestern China (He et al. 2011a, 2011b, 2013, Liu et al. 2015, Sun et al. 2014, Xu et al. 2010, 2015a, 2015b). In May 2013, when investigating limestone plants in Guizhou province, we discovered an unusual Aspidistra Ker Gawl. at Dadaihe Karst Tiankeng (Tangbian, Pingtang county), showing dark purplish red flowers, but the pistil was wilted because the plant was at late stage of anthesis. Therefore plants were collected and transferred to the Guilin Botanical Garden, where they flowered next spring. In November 2015, the second author (Meng-Qi Han) collected again the same Aspidistra pecies at Anjiadong Karst Tiankeng (Tangbian). After consulting herbarium specimens and relevant literature on Aspidistra (Huang et al. 2015, Lin et al. 2015, Liang et al. 2016, Ly & Tillich 2016, Pan et al. 2016, Vislobokov et al. 2016), it turned out that the plant represents a new species, which we describe below.

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