diff --git a/data/03/EB/F9/03EBF943D46FFFF2FF38FF6D62B9FC59.xml b/data/03/EB/F9/03EBF943D46FFFF2FF38FF6D62B9FC59.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c9ee0376211 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/03/EB/F9/03EBF943D46FFFF2FF38FF6D62B9FC59.xml @@ -0,0 +1,201 @@ + + + +Youngia baoxingensis, a new species of Asteraceae (tribe Cichorieae) from Sichuan, China + + + +Author + +Chen, You-Sheng + +text + + +Phytotaxa + + +2018 + +2018-12-11 + + +382 + + +2 + + +239 +242 + + + + +http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.382.2.10 + +journal article +10.11646/phytotaxa.382.2.10 +1179-3163 +13724421 + + + + + +Youngia baoxingensis +Y. S. Chen + +, + +sp. nov. + +( +Figs. 1 +& +2 +) + + + + +Type +:— + +CHINA +. +Sichuan +: +Baoxing county +, +Longdong Xiang +, +Ganyanggou +, +30°26’36.24”N +, +102°29’52.8”E +, +grassy slope in ravine +, + +2940– 3200 m + +, + +5 August 2007 + +, + +Y. S. Chen +7280 + +( +holotype +PE + +; + +isotype +PE + +). + + + + +Herbs perennial, +18–30 cm +tall, glabrous, with rhizomate rootstock bearing fleshy fibrous roots; caudex short, leafy. Caudical leaves 6–8, ascending, blade oblong, 3–7 × +0.8–1.4 cm +, margin remotely denticulate to subentire, apex acute, base cuneate, glabrous on both surfaces, petioles +2–3 cm +; cauline leaves 2–3, linear, bract-like, borne at the base of branchlets. Stem erect, slender, glabrous, branched above middle. Synflorescence corymbiform; capitula (3–)10–15; peduncles very slender, +1–2 cm +, glabrous. Involucres cylindrical, +3–5 mm +in diameter, +9–10 mm +high, glabrous; outer phyllaries ca. 5, ovate, dark green, 1–1.5 × ca. +1 mm +; inner phyllaries 5–7, lanceolate, nearly equal, 9–10 × +1.5–2 mm +, dark green, scarious-margined, crested with a narrow curved claw near tip; florets 6–7, ligules ca. 10 × +4 mm +, 5-toothed, teeth +0.5–0.6 mm +, tube +3–4 mm +; anther tube ca. +4 mm +; style branches ca. +1 mm +. Achene blackish brown, fusiform, ca. 4 × +0.3 mm +, compressed, strongly attenuate to the narrow neck, with conical summit, 12–14-ribbed. Pappus brown, +4–6 mm +, 1-seriate, persistent. + + + + +Distribution and habitat +:— + +Youngia baoxingensis + +is currently known only from its +type +locality, i.e. Baoxing county, +Sichuan province +, +China +. It grows on grassy slopes at the margins of mixed forests in a ravine at elevations of +2950–3200 m +. + + + + +Phenology +:—Flowering and fruiting from August to September. + + + + +Etymology +:—The epithet indicates the +type +locality, i.e. Baoxing county, +Sichuan province +, +China +. + + + + +Discussion +:— + +Youngia baoxingensis + +, characterized by small, 6–7-flowered heads and outer phyllaries ca. 1/9 as long as inner ones and achenes ca. +4 mm +long, belongs to + +Youngia +sect. +Mesomeris +Babcock & Stebbins (1937: 26) + +. In general appearance it is similar to + +Y. yilingii +Shih (1995: 181) + +, but distinct by its oblong and entire (vs. spathulate, elliptic or oblanceolate, more or less pinnatifid) leaf blade, brownish (vs. white) pappus, and 6–7 (vs. 9–15) florets. + + + + \ No newline at end of file