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Petrocodon retroflexus sp nov (Gesneriaceae) from a karst cave in Guizhou, China

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NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 159-164

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/njb.00941

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41161011, 31100176]
  2. Guangxi Natural Science Foundation [2012GXNSFBA053067]
  3. Fundamental Research Fund of Guangxi Institute of Botany [GZY 15007]
  4. Fund of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Functional Phytochemicals Research and Utilization [ZRJJ2013-9]

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Petrocodon retroflexus Q. Zhang & J. Guo, a new species of Gesneriaceae from Guizhou, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically similar to Petrocodon viridescens W. H. Chen, Mich. Moller & Y. M. Shui, but differs by its leaf blade being ovate, broadly ovate to elliptic, 8-20 x 5-15 cm and densely pilose on both surfaces, narrowly triangular, 9 mm long, densely pilose bracts, white corolla that is decurved near the middle, with adaxial lip shallowly 4-partitioned and retroflexed, and pistil ca 1.3 cm long and densely pilose and glandular-pilose.

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