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Asplenium cyrtosorum K. W. Xu, Li Bing Zhang & W. B. Liao

  • 1. xukw 10 @ njfu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2239 - 0487
  • 2. Department of Biology, Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 th Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Ha Noi, Vietnam; & vnmngan @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9823 - 2018
  • 3. School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091 Yunnan, China; & xinmao. zhou @ ynu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3555 - 7784
  • 4. Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China; & zhangliang @ mail. kib. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3784 - 3135
  • 5. Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U. S. A.; Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China. & Libing. Zhang @ mobot. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4905 - 040 X

Description

Asplenium cyrtosorum K.W.Xu, Li Bing Zhang & W.B.Liao (Figure 3)

Type:— CHINA. Yunnan: Pu’er City, Pu’er Sun River National Forest Park, elev. ca. 1200 m, 22°34’51.74”N, 101°6’31.57”E, 20 April 2017, Ke-Wang Xu & Lei Jiang XKW318 (holotype SYS!).

Additional specimens examined:— CHINA. Yunnan: Pu’er City, Pu’er Sun River National Park, elev. ca. 1200 m, 22°34’51.74”N, 101°6’31.57”E, 18 May 2016, Lei Jiang & Hua Peng JL00363 (SYS). VIETNAM. Quang Binh: Minh Hoa district, Dan Hoa Commune, Chalo village, 600 m, 17°40’26.43”N, 105°46’39.19”E, 13 November 2014, Li-Bing Zhang, Liang Zhang & Ngan Thi Lu 7440 (MO); Dak Nong: Dak Glong district, Dak P’lao Commune, Ta Dung Nature Reserve, 1200–1400 m, 11°52’17.98”N, 108°1’36.98”E, 13 November 2006, Su-Kong Wu et al. WP1557 (MO-5959537).

Distribution:—Currently only known from southwestern China and Vietnam.

Ecology:—This species grows in broad-leaved forests. It is a lithophyte on rocks in humid and shady conditions.

Note:—One population of 40–50 individuals was first found in China and it was classified as Critically Endangered according to the IUCN guidelines (Xu et al. 2018a). Two small populations were found in Vietnam, in Quang Binh and Dak Nong, respectively. Morphologically, plants from Vietnam are more robust than those from China.

Notes

Published as part of Xu, Ke-Wang, Lu, Ngan Thi, Zhou, Xin-Mao, Zhang, Liang & Zhang, Li-Bing, 2021, Asplenium quangbinhense sp. nov. and three new records of Asplenium (Aspleniaceae) from Vietnam, pp. 113-120 in Phytotaxa 521 (2) on pages 116-117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.521.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5533597

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SYS
Event date
2017-04-20
Verbatim event date
2017-04-20
Scientific name authorship
K. W. Xu, Li Bing Zhang & W. B. Liao
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Aspleniaceae
Genus
Asplenium
Species
cyrtosorum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • Xu, K. - W., Jiang, L., Zhang, L. - B. & Liao, W. - B. (2018 a) Asplenium cyrtosorum (Aspleniaceae), a new fern from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 351: 176 - 180. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / phytotaxa. 351.2.6