Published October 30, 2019 | Version v1
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Ottelia fengshanensis, a new bisexual species of Ottelia (Hydrocharitaceae) from southwestern China

  • 1. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China|Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
  • 2. Guangxi Association for Science and Technology, Guangxi, China
  • 3. Guangxi Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, China
  • 4. Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China|Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
  • 5. University of Turku, Turku, Finland
  • 6. Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China|Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
  • 7. Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

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Ottelia fengshanensis, a new species (Hydrocharitaceae) from southwest China is here described and illustrated. Comparing its morphological features to putative close relatives O. guanyangensis, it has 3–4 flowers (vs. 2–5) each spathe, hexagonal-cylindric fruit, white styles (vs. yellow), green leaves (vs. dark green) and fruit tiny winged (vs. winged obviously). Molecular phylogenetic investigation of four DNA sequences (ITS, rbcL, trnK5' intron and trnS-trnG) and the Poisson Tree Processes model for species delimitation (PTP) analysis, further resolves O. fengshanensis as a new species that is close to O. guanyangensis with distinct support.

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