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TABLE 2 in Gynostemma verrucosum (Cucurbitaceae), a new species with verrucose stem from Guangxi, China

  • 1. Guangxi TCM Resources General Survey and Data Collection Key Laboratory, 530023 Nanning, China & Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants, 530023 Nanning, China
  • 2. Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants, 530023 Nanning, China
  • 3. National Engineering Research Center for Southwest Endangered Medicinal Materials Resources Development, 530023 Nanning, China
  • 4. Guangxi TCM Resources General Survey and Data Collection Key Laboratory, 530023 Nanning, China
  • 5. State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herb, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 100700 Beijing, China

Description

TABLE 2. Morphological comparison of Gynostemma verrucosum, G. caulopterum, G. compressum and G. guangxiense.

CharacterG. verrucosumG. caulopterumG. compressumG. guangxiense
Stemsubcylindrical, striate and sulcate, conspicuously verrucose except for shoot, puberulent at nodes3-angled, angles winged, glabrous or sparsely puberulent at nodessubcylindrical, striate and sulcate, glabroussubcylindrical, striate and sulcate, glabrous
Leaves(5–)9(–11)-foliolate, leaflets oblong or obovate-elliptic, papery; central leaflet 7–15 × 2–4 cm; petiole 10–22 cm7-foliolate, leaflets rhombic-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, papery; central leaflet 6–12 × 2–4 cm; petiole 5–8 cm7-foliolate, leaflets elliptic or elliptic-ovate, membranous; central leaflet 3.5–6.5 × 2–2.5 cm; petiole 5–12 cm3–7-foliolate, leaflet ovate-elliptic or obovate, papery or membranous; central leaflet 3–4.5 × 1.5–2.5 cm; petiole 4–8 cm
Fruitcapsule, 2-compressed obtriangular lobed, 8–10 × 14–18 mm; fruit stalk 3–7 cm; tip slightly convexcapsule, 2–3-compressed globose lobed, 2.5–3 × 5–6 mm; fruit stalk 0.3–0.6 cm; tip slightly concaveCapsule, 2-compressed obtriangular lobed,5–8 × 5–7 mm; fruit stalk 1.3–2.5 cm; tip slightly concavecapsule, 2–3-compressed globose lobed, 4–5 × 5–6 mm; fruit stalk 0.7–1.8 cm; tip slightly concave
Seedseeds 2, obtriangular, 5–6 × 7–8 mm, spiniform-tuberculate, margin serrate and sulcate, acute verrucae inside grooveseeds 2–3, broadly cordate, ca. 2 × 3 mm, spiniform-tuberculateseeds 2, obtriangular, ca. 3 × 3.5 mm, tuberculate, margin crenate and sulcateseeds 2–3, oblong or subglobose, ca. 2.5 × 2.2 mm, verruculose, margin crenate and sulcate

Notes

Published as part of Huang, Xue-Yan, Nong, Dong-Xin, Huang, Bao-You, Yao, Li-Xiang, Yao, Ji-Jun, Yu, Li-Ying & Huang, Lu-Qi, 2024, Gynostemma verrucosum (Cucurbitaceae), a new species with verrucose stem from Guangxi, China, pp. 297 in Phytotaxa 649 (3) on page 297, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13216169

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