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Table 1 in Michaelmoelleria (Gesneriaceae), a new lithophilous dwelling genus and species with zigzag corolla tube from southern Vietnam

  • 1. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guilin Botanical Garden, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China & Gesneriad Conservation Center of China (GCCC), Guilin Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China & Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
  • 2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guilin Botanical Garden, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China & Gesneriad Conservation Center of China (GCCC), Guilin Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China
  • 3. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guilin Botanical Garden, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China
  • 4. Gesneriad Conservation Center of China (GCCC), Guilin Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China & The Gesneriad Society, 2030 Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA
  • 5. Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Vietnam & Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Vietnam

Description

Table 1. Comparison of morphological characters Michaelmoelleria, Cathayanthe, Deinostigma and Tribounia.

CharactersMichaelmoelleriaCathayantheDeinostigmaTribounia
Life formperennialperennialperennialprobably annual
Stemglabrescent to glabrous when ageingrhizomatous, stemlessmultifarious, from short and constrictive to procumbent; from glabrous to pubescent and puberulentwith hairs and often hooked at the tip
Leavesalternate on elongate aeriald stem, 12-20 or morefew, 4-8, basalalternate, numerousopposite, numerous
Lea-bladeovate to elliptic, both surfaces glabrousoblanceolate to obovate or elliptic, adaxially whitish to brownish sericeous, abaxially appressed pubescentmultifarious, slightly peltate or not, glabrous or eglandular pubescent on both surfacesovate, densely pubescent adaxially and abaxially mostly with eglandular pubescents (occasional glandular pubescent present in Tribounia grandiflora)
CalyxActinomorphic, 5-parted to the basezygomorphic, 2-lippeddivided to base, elliptic, those on ventral side slightly longer and widerequally 5-partite almost to base
Corollatube narrowly curving to zigzag infundibuliform-tubular, and bent at about 90° angle in the middle of corolla tube, and gradually slightly swollen from the middle to the base of the tube; dramatically enlarged to be trumpet-shaped from the middle of the corolla tube toward the limbtube tubular, nearly straight to slightly bent, slightly gibbous abaxially toward limb, much longer than limbtube infundibuliform, lower lip 3-lobed, upper lip 2-lobed, lobe apices roundedzygomorphic, of a narrow lower tube which widens into an infundibuliform upper tube which has a prominent boss on the dorsal surfacew
Fertile stamens number4222
Ovarycylindric-linear, glabrous, 3.5-4 cm longnarrowly ellipsoid, ca. 6 mm longfusform, long or short, with different indumentum, from glabrous to glandular- and eglandular-puberulentcylindrical, densely glandular pubescent, ca. 6 mm long in T. venosa, 7.5-11.0 mm long in T. grandiflora
Stigma2-lobed, often gathering togethersubcapitate, lower part developingligulate, upper lip usually vestigial and only lower lip developing, broad, flat and weakly 2-lobedcapitate

Notes

Published as part of Wen, Fang, Xin, Zi-Bing, Fu, Long-Fei, Li, Shu, Su, Lan-Ying, Maciejewski, Stephen, Huang, Zhang-Jie, Do, Truong Van & Wei, Yi-Gang, 2020, Michaelmoelleria (Gesneriaceae), a new lithophilous dwelling genus and species with zigzag corolla tube from southern Vietnam, pp. 89 in PhytoKeys 146 on page 89, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.146.49731

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