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<mods:title>A revision of the genus Lasianthus Jack (Rubiaceae) from Vietnam</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Dang, Van-Son</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Iriomote Station, Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, 870 Uehara, Taketomi-cho, Yaeyama-gun, Okinawa, 907 - 1541 Japan. &amp; Institute of Tropical Biology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 85 Tran Quoc Toan Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. &amp; Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Ha Noi, Vietnam. &amp; dvsonitb @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8681 - 4141</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Naiki, Akiyo</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Iriomote Station, Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, 870 Uehara, Taketomi-cho, Yaeyama-gun, Okinawa, 907 - 1541 Japan. &amp; Iriomote Station, Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, 870 Uehara, Taketomi-cho, Yaeyama-gun, Okinawa, 907 - 1541 Japan. &amp; naiki @ lab. u-ryukyu. ac. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3235 - 2823 * Author for correspondence</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:date>2023</mods:date>
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Hook.f. (1880: 180)
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— 
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11
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(
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K! [K000031598]; isotypes L! [L0000706, L0000705], LE! [
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.
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<emphasis box="[136,312,774,795]" italics="true" pageId="123">Lasianthus tsangii</emphasis>
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. Type:— 
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. Kwangsi (
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23940
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(
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!).
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<emphasis box="[136,336,810,831]" italics="true" pageId="123">Lasianthus baviensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[136,371,882,903]" italics="true" pageId="123">Lasianthus langkokensis</emphasis>
(Drake) 
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(
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P!).
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examined:
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— 
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elev., 
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, 
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237
</emphasis>
(
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(Japan)); 
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City, 
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<elevation box="[335,418,1058,1085]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.267" pageId="123" unit="m" value="1267.0">1267 m</elevation>
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elev., 
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<collectingDate box="[489,706,1058,1084]" pageId="123" value="2018-11-17">17 November 2018</collectingDate>
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, 
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<collectorName box="[715,826,1059,1085]" pageId="123">Dang V.S.</collectorName>
&amp; 
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, 
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281
</emphasis>
(
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, the herbarium of 
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(
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))
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.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,345,1130,1156]" pageId="123">Distribution:</emphasis>
—Widespread in the tropical and subtropical regions in Asia (
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, 
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, 
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, 
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, 
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, 
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). In 
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, 
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<emphasis box="[537,795,1166,1192]" italics="true" pageId="123">Lasianthus sikkimensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
occurs in 
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, 
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, and 
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,424,1202,1228]" pageId="123">Habitat &amp; Ecology:</emphasis>
—Growing in the shade of evergreen forest or the hill of evergreen montane forest at 
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elev.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,323,1274,1300]" pageId="123">Phenology:</emphasis>
—Flowering and fruiting from July to November.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,405,1310,1336]" pageId="123">Vernacular name:</emphasis>
—Xú hưƠng ba vì, Xú hưƠng lăng cốc.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,265,1346,1372]" pageId="123">Notes:</emphasis>
— 
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<emphasis box="[294,553,1346,1372]" italics="true" pageId="123">Lasianthus sikkimensis</emphasis>
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was described in 1880 by Hooker. It was clarified in the revision by 
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Zhu 
<emphasis box="[1394,1452,1346,1372]" italics="true" pageId="123">et al.</emphasis>
(2012)
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and two Vietnamese species, 
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<emphasis box="[542,716,1382,1408]" italics="true" pageId="123">L. langkokensis</emphasis>
(Drake) Pit. (1924: 397)
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and 
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<emphasis box="[1043,1176,1382,1408]" italics="true" pageId="123">L. baviensis</emphasis>
(Drake) Pit. (1924: 380)
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were treated as the synonyms of 
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This species is easily identified in the field by having densely brown-tomentose on branches, leaf blade ellipticlanceolate or elliptic, 
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long, bracts linear to lanceolate, 
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long, brown-tomentose, and fruits ellipsoid, blue when ripe.
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