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Phlogacanthus yangtsekiangensis C. Xia & Y. F. Deng, comb. nov.

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China

Description

Phlogacanthus yangtsekiangensis (H. Lév.) C. Xia & Y. F. Deng, comb. nov.

Basionym: Strobilanthes yangtsekiangensis Léveillé (1915: 7).⎯ Cystacanthus yangtsekiangensis (H. Lév.) Rehder (1935: 315). Type:⎯ CHINA. Yunnan: Dêqên Xian, Rives du fleuve Bleu à Ta-Tchai, 400–450 m, May–June 1912, E. E. Maire s.n. (holotype E!)

Cystacanthus affinis Smith (1916: 103), syn. nov. Type: ⎯ CHINA. Yunnan: Lijiang Shi, Fengkow Valley, Lat. 27°40’N ”, 8000 ft., June 1914, G. Forrest 12493 (holotype E!; isotype A!, K!).

Cystacanthus yunnanensis Smith (1916: 104), syn. nov. Type:⎯ CHINA. Yunnan: Dengchuan Xian, Tengchwan Valley, Lat. 26°5’N, 7000 ft, May 1913, G. Forrest 10007 (holotype E!).

Distribution:— Phlogacanthus yangtsekiangensis is endemic to China and occurs in Sichuan and Yunnan.

Ecology:—This species grows in thickets in the valley at the elevation of 400–2200 m.

Conservation status:— Phlogacanthus yangtsekiangensis was collected from more than thirty localities and has a large area of occurrence in Jinsha Jiang Valley in N Yunnan and SW Sichuan Provinces which cover more than 20000 km 2. It is thus considered to be of Least Concern (LC) according to the IUCN (2001, 2011) Red List criteria and categories.

Notes

Published as part of Xia, Chun & Deng, Yunfei, 2013, Phlogacanthus yangtsekiangensis, a new combination in Chinese Acanthaceae, pp. 58-60 in Phytotaxa 104 (1) on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.104.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4776608

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
E , E, A, K , G
Scientific name authorship
C. Xia & Y. F. Deng
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Lamiales
Family
Acanthaceae
Genus
Phlogacanthus
Species
yangtsekiangensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
holotype

References

  • Leveille, A. A. H. (1915) Catalogue des Plantes de Yun-Nan 1. Chez l'Auteur, Le Mans, pp. 1 - 16.
  • Rehder, A. (1935) Notes on the ligneous plants described by Leveille from Eastern Asia. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 16: 311 - 340.
  • Smith, W. W. (1916) Diagnoses specierum novarum in herbario Horti Regii Botanici Edinburghensis cognitum CLI - CCL. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 9: 71 - 144.
  • IUCN (2001) IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, Version 3. 1. Prepared by the IUCN Species Survival Commission. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, United Kingdom, 30 pp.
  • IUCN (2011) Guidelines for using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 9. Prepared by the Standards and Petitions Subcommittee. Available from: http: // www. iucnredlist. org / documents / RedListGuidelines. pdf (accessed 1 April 2013).