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<mods:namePart>Monro, Alex K.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom &amp; The Herbarium, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW 9 3 AB, United Kingdom</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Wei, Y. G.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Guangxi Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, Guangxi 541006, People's Republic of China</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Chen, C. J.</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="77B4CF58-0A01-534E-A1B3-1509DE4141E7" authority="A. K. Monro, C. J. Chen &amp; Y. G. Wei" authorityName="A. K. Monro, C. J. Chen &amp; Y. G. Wei" authorityYear="2012" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Urticaceae" genus="Pilea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Pilea shizongensis" order="Urticales" pageId="4" pageNumber="55" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="shizongensis" status="sp. nov.">Pilea shizongensis A.K. Monro, C.J. Chen &amp; Y.G. Wei</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="4" pageNumber="55">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Habitats ofspecies described in this manuscript. A, B Pilea cavernicola, Yangzi cave, Fengshan County. Locality for Monro &amp; Wei 6669 A Interior of cave B Exterior view of the cave C Habitat of Pilea shizongensis, Feng Huang Gu gorge, Shizong County. Locality for Monro &amp; Wei 6727 D, E Habitat of Pilea guizhouensis, petaloid travertine wall of Malinghe Gorge E close-up of petaloid travertine formation, Locality for Monro &amp; Wei 6715." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10212" pageId="4" pageNumber="55">Figs 3 C</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Pilea shizongensis. A Habit B Close up of pistillate inflorescence C Close up of a staminate flower. Based on Monro &amp; Wei 6727." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10213" pageId="4" pageNumber="55">, 4 A-C</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Pilea shizongensis. A Habit B Shoot tip C Close up of a staminate flowers D Close up of pistillate inflorescence and flowers. Based on Monro &amp; Wei 6727." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10214" pageId="4" pageNumber="55">, 5 A-D</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="55">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Most similar to
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Urticaceae" genus="Pilea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Urticales" pageId="4" pageNumber="55" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="aquarum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="55">Pilea aquarum</emphasis>
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from which it can be distinguished by the shorter stem, serrate rather than dentate leaves, shorter stipules and glabrous pistillate tepals.
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="55">Type.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="55">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="55">China.</emphasis>
Yunnan: Shizong County, Feng Huang Gu gorge, 1200 m,
<geoCoordinate degrees="024" direction="north" minutes="37" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="54.0" value="24.631666">024°37'54.0&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="104" direction="east" minutes="14" orientation="longitude" precision="1" seconds="43.9" value="104.24552">104°14'43.9&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
(DMS), 14 May 2010,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="55">A. K. Monro &amp; Y. G. Wei 6727</emphasis>
(holotype: IBK; isotypes: BM001001216, MO, PE).
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<subSubSection lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="57" pageId="4" pageNumber="55" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="55">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="57" pageId="4" pageNumber="55">
Herb to 20 cm, epipetric and terrestrial. Stems procumbent and erect, drying dark brown, maroon to dark green when fresh, pubescent, more densely so towards the shoot tips, the hairs 0.5 mm, erect or weakly appressed, curved or crooked, orange-brown peltate glandular, cystoliths absent, the internodes 4-38
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1.5-2.0 mm, angulate in cross-section, striate. Stipules 2.5-3.0 mm, auriculate-cordiform, drying brown. Leaves petiolate, distichous; petioles at each node unequal by ratio 1:3-4.4, 3-20 mm, pubescent, the hairs 0.25-0.375 mm, erect, strongly curved to curved; laminae at each node equal or subequal, 11-35
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7-17 mm, ovate to broad ovate, chartaceous; 3-nerved, the lateral nerves visible for less than 2/3 of the lamina length, secondary nerves 4-6 pairs, borne 45-60° to the midrib, straight or weakly curved; upper surface drying brown or dark brown, dark green with maroon nerves and green flushed maroon when fresh, sparsely pubescent, the hairs 0.50-0.675 mm, appressed, straight or weakly curved, cystoliths absent, midrib raised; lower surface drying grey-brown when fresh, nerves densely pubescent, the hairs 0.375 mm, weakly appressed, curved, orange-brown peltate glandular, midrib and lateral nerves raised, cystoliths fusiform, randomly scattered; base symmetrical, cuneate or obtuse; margin serrate, the basal 1/4 entire; apex symmetrical, subcus
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or cuneate. Inflorescences 4-10 per stem, unisexual, staminate and pistillate inflorescences synchronous, born on separate stems; bracts 0.375 mm; bracteoles 0.3-0.5 mm. Staminate inflorescences solitary, 17.5-25 mm, bearing 7-16 flowers in a loose cyme; peduncle 1/4 or less inflorescence length, 0.5 mm in diameter, pubescent, cystoliths absent; pedicels 0.8-1.0 mm, glabrous. Staminate flowers
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-2.0
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1.5-1.8 mm immediately prior to anthesis, deep pink; tepals 4, imbricate, 1.75 mm, fused for their basal 1/4, ovate or elliptic, glabrous, the subapical appendage 0.375 mm, corniculate, glabrous; stamens 4. Pistillate inflorescences solitary, 2.0-2.5 mm, bearing 17-30 flowers in a compact cyme; peduncle 1/2 to 2/3 inflorescence length, 0.375 mm in diameter, glabrous, cystoliths absent; pedicels 0.25-0.375 mm, sparsely pubescent. Pistillate flowers 0.375-0.50 mm, tepals 3, unequal, glabrous, adaxial tepal 0.5 mm, oblong, the dorsal tepal appendage 0.375 mm, oblong, markedly thickened; the lateral tepals 0.25-0.375 mm, asymmetrically ovate. Infructescences not seen.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Figure 4.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
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.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">A</emphasis>
Habit
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Close up of pistillate inflorescence
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">C</emphasis>
Close up of a staminate flower. Based on
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Monro &amp; Wei 6727</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Figure 5.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
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.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">A</emphasis>
Habit
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">B</emphasis>
Shoot tip
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">C</emphasis>
Close up of a staminate flowers
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">D</emphasis>
Close up of pistillate inflorescence and flowers. Based on
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Monro &amp; Wei 6727</emphasis>
.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="57" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Yunnan Province, Feng Huang Gu gorge, ca 1200 m, in limestone karst, growing on the floor of the gorge in deep shade.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="57" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">The species name refers to county of the locality of the only known collection of this species, Shizong.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="57" type="discussion">
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">
Comparison of the holotype material with type specimens from the herbaria listed in the methods section recovered
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Urticaceae" genus="Pilea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Urticales" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="aquarum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea aquarum</emphasis>
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Dunn as most similar to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It can be distinguished from
<taxonomicName authorityName="A. K. Monro, C. J. Chen &amp; Y. G. Wei" authorityYear="2012" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Urticaceae" genus="Pilea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Urticales" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="shizongensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
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based on pubescence, leaf margin morphology and pistillate tepal and flower morphology as summarised in
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">
<taxonomicName authorityName="A. K. Monro, C. J. Chen &amp; Y. G. Wei" authorityYear="2012" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Urticaceae" genus="Pilea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Urticales" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="shizongensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
falls within
<bibRefCitation author="Weddell, HA" journalOrPublisher="American Journal of Botany" pageId="7" pageNumber="58" refId="B9" refString="Weddell, HA, 1869. Pilea. In: deCandolle ALLP (Ed) Prodromus 16(1), Treuttel and Wurtz, Paris, 104-163." title="Pilea. In: deCandolle ALLP (Ed) Prodromus 16 (1), Treuttel and Wurtz, Paris, 104 - 163." year="1869">
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(1869)
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Dentatae-Gerontogeae subdivision and
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Chens">Chen's</normalizedToken>
(1982)
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Urticella Section of the genus.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">
There is some confusion over the delimitation of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea aquarum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and this is relevant to the delimitation of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
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. It would appear that the relatively rare character trait of pubescent pistillate tepals has been overlooked by several authors and that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea aquarum</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">sensu strictu</emphasis>
encompass a relatively narrow range of morphological variation which would exclude the subspecies
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea aquarum</emphasis>
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subsp.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">brevicornuta</emphasis>
and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea aquarum</emphasis>
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subsp.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">acutidentata</emphasis>
.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Table 3.</emphasis>
XX
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Character</emphasis>
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName authorityName="A. K. Monro, C. J. Chen &amp; Y. G. Wei" authorityYear="2012" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Urticaceae" genus="Pilea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Urticales" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="shizongensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Urticaceae" genus="Pilea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Urticales" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="aquarum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea aquarum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
subsp.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">aquarum</emphasis>
</th>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">Stem height</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">10-20 cm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">30-40 cm</td>
</tr>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">Leaf margin</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">serrate</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">dentate</td>
</tr>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">Pistillate tepal pubescence</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">glabrous</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="57" rowspan="1">pubescent</td>
</tr>
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</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="57" type="conservation status">
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="57">
Using IUCN criteria (
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)
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is considered Endangered (E).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
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is known from a single locality (IUCN criteria D2, number of locations &lt;5). At these localities the populations of this species comprises ca 100-200 mature individuals (IUCN criteria D1, number of mature individuals &lt;250). Using the IUCN methodology our Global Conservation Assessment for
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="57">Pilea shizongensis</emphasis>
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is Endangered (E) based on criteria D1 and D2: population size and number of locations combined with a plausible future threat that could drive this taxon to Endangered in a very short time. Plausible threats include the location of the only known population within a tourist site and close to the only path used by visitors to access the gorge bottom. Any expansion of the path, fire or dumping of refuse by visitors could destroy this population.
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