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PHYTOTAXA
Volume 606, Issue 3, Pages 211-219Publisher
MAGNOLIA PRESS
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.3.4
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Pleione; Morphology; Mt; Wulingshan Region; taxonomy
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Pleione xiushanensis, a new orchid plant from China, is described based on morphological comparisons and phylogenetic analyses. It is similar to P. bulbocodioides and P. pleionoides but differs in the characteristics of its lip. Phylogenomic evidence shows that P. xiushanensis is closely related to P. jinhuana.
Pleione xiushanensis, a new orchid plant from the Mt. Wulingshan Region of China, is illustrated and described based on morphological comparisons and phylogenetic analyses. The species is similar to P. bulbocodioides and P. pleionoides but differs from the former in that its lip lacks central lamellae and from the latter in that its lip exhibits fuchsia punctata. Additionally, the lip of P. bulbocodioides and P. pleionoides has 2 or 4 denticulate lamellae, but the lip of the new species has 2 internal integer lamellae and 2 external denticulate lamellae. Our phylogenomic evidence based on the nrITS sequence resolved P. xiushanensis as sister to P. jinhuana. P. jinhuana has 2 denticulate lamellae and shows margin erosion at the apical edge of the lip, but P. xiushanensis has 4 denticulate lamellae and shows no margin erosion of the lip.
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