Taxonomic revision of the genus Pseudocodon (Campanulaceae) based on character analysis and molecular phylogeny
Author
Wang, Qiang
Author
Hong, De-Yuan
text
Phytotaxa
2015
2015-03-27
204
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49
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.204.1.4
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.204.1.4
1179-3163
13638837
7.
Pseudocodon
petiolatus
D. Y. Hong & Q. Wang
,
sp. nov.
Fig. 5
.
Type
:—
CHINA
.
Sichuan
,
Muli
,
913 Farm
,
Zhamin
,
2600 m
, thickets,
23 August 1983
,
Qinghai-Xizang Exped. 13331
(
holotype
PE
[No.
1280549
];
isotype
PE
[No.
1280611
])
.
Herbs perennial, glabrous throughout except for ciliate filaments. Roots more or less carrot-shaped, longer than
15 cm
,
1.3 cm
in diameter. Stems twining, slender, over
1 m
long. Leaves alternate; petiole
1.5–2.5 cm
long; leaf blade cordate to ovate, base cordate, truncate to rounded, apex obtuse to acute,
2–3.5 cm
long,
1.5–2.5 cm
wide, margin entire to shallowly crenulate. Flowers solitary, terminal on main stem. Hypanthium obtriangular; calyx lobes 5, strongly reflexed even at anthesis, linear-lanceolate, entire,
7–9 mm
long,
3–3.5 mm
wide. Corolla blue, 5-lobed to near base, rotate; corolla lobes elliptic, ca
2 cm
long,
1 cm
wide. Stamens free; filaments
4 mm
long, basal part strongly dilated into triangular, ciliate; anthers
4 mm
long. Ovary inferior; style glabrous, ca
2 mm
long; stigma 3-fid, stigma lobes elliptic-oblong, ca
4 mm
long,
2.5 mm
wide. Fruit unknown.
Pseudocodon petiolatus
differs distinctly from all other species of the genus in having elongate roots, long petioles, strongly reflexed calyx lobes, and large stigma lobes.
Distribution
:—Endemic to
China
: SW
Sichuan
.