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<mods:namePart>Liu, Zhong-Chong</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Liu, Jia</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Zhao, Wan-Yi</mods:namePart>
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="2018-05-03" country="China" county="Yangchun City" elevation="720" latitude="21.866667" location="Nature Reserve" longLatPrecision="1262" longitude="111.416664" municipality="Bajia Town" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Guangdong Province" typeStatus="holotype">
<collectingCountry name="China">China</collectingCountry>
.
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:
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:C638A75AD71556E98B263875DC51DC3D:FCE4CED1D166784B182BAE7A65CF8B5F" country="China" county="Yangchun City" latitude="21.866667" longLatPrecision="1262" longitude="111.416664" municipality="Bajia Town" name="Nature Reserve" stateProvince="Guangdong Province">Nature Reserve</location>
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, a.s.l.
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,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Wan-Yi Zhao, Jia Liu, Qiao-Ling Ding, Fan Ye YC-2018-02</emphasis>
(
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: SYS!, Barcode SYS00236851; isotype: SYS!, Barcode SYS00236852) (Figs
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Argostemma ehuangzhangense A flower B fruit C style and stigma D habit of a mature plant E multicellular trichomes present on the stem, pedicel and ovary F corolla G organization of stamens H stamen (Drawn from living plants by Yun-Xiao Liu)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.214.89276.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/775922" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">2</figureCitation>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Figure 1.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Argostemma ehuangzhangense</emphasis>
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individuals in their natural habitat
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flowering individuals
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fruiting individuals
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">D</emphasis>
side view of an individuals with tuber
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leaf blade adaxial surface view
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leaf blade abaxial surface view
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flower, internal corolla surface view
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folwer, external corolla surface view
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capsule, top view
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stamen
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style and stigma tightly enclosed by stamens
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ovary longitudinal section view. (photographs (
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) were taken by Wan-Yi Zhao in the original habitat area of
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and photographs (
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) were taken by Jia Liu in SYS Herbarium in
<date value="2018-05">May 2018</date>
).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="H. G. Ye, Jia Liu &amp; W. B. Liao" authorityYear="2022" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rubiaceae" genus="Argostemma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Argostemma ehuangzhangense" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ehuangzhangense">
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is similar to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">A. lamxayanum</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">A. laotica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in its habit and pseudo-verticillate leaves, but differs in having terminal solitary 4-merous flowers, short anthers (1.2-1.5 mm long) opening by longitudinal slits.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Argostemma ehuangzhangense</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">A</emphasis>
flower
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fruit
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style and stigma
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habit of a mature plant
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multicellular trichomes present on the stem, pedicel and ovary
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corolla
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organization of stamens
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">H</emphasis>
stamen (Drawn from living plants by Yun-Xiao Liu).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Description.</paragraph>
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perennial herbs, 1-4 cm tall, attached to the substrate by tubers flattened globose, with a few roots.
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erect, densely pubescent, with one pair of scale-like leaves at the lower middle portion.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Leaves</emphasis>
four per individual, clustered at the stem apex, verticillate, anisophyllous, petiole 0.5-2 long mm; blades membranous or thinly papery when dried, ovate to elliptic, 5-25
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3-12 mm, cuneate at base, acute to obtuse at apex, margins entire; adaxial surface green, densely antrorse strigose; abaxial surface grey-white with white particles, sparsely pubescent on the midrib vein and lateral veins; lateral veins 3- or 4-pairs; stipules deciduous.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Flowers</emphasis>
solitary, terminal; pedicels 0.8-1.8 cm, with densely pubescent, trichomes multicellular.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Calyx</emphasis>
densely pubescent, trichomes multicellular, hypanthium portion obovoid; lobes 4, subtriangular, 1-1.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.1-1.4 mm, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Corolla</emphasis>
white, rotate, external surface sparsely pubescent, internal surface glabrous, corolla tube 0.3-0.6 mm long; corolla lobes 4, oblong-lanceolate, 3-4
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1.5-2 mm.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Stamens</emphasis>
4; filaments free, 3.5-4 mm, exserted; anthers 1.2-1.5 mm long, coherent into a tube, dehiscent longitudinally.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Ovary</emphasis>
2-locular, ovules numerous in each locule; style filiform, ca. 4 mm, with short pubescence, stigma capitate, exserted.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Capsule</emphasis>
obovoid, 2-5 mm in diameter, 1-3 mm long, pubescent, crowned by a persistent calyx, without ribs or furrows.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">This species is recorded flowering in March-May and fruiting in May-September.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Argostemma ehuangzhangense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is endemic to
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ehuangzhang">E'huangzhang</normalizedToken>
Nature Reserve, southwestern Guangdong Province. It is currently known only from two populations recorded in county of Dianbai and city of Yangchun.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Growing along river on wet sandstone under the evergreen broad-leaf forest at 400-750 m a.s.l.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
The specific epithet
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is derived from the type locality,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ehuangzhang">E'huangzhang</normalizedToken>
Nature Reserve of the Guangdong Province, in China. This area is the oldest geological platform in the Guangdong Province, in which many endemic species occur (
<bibRefCitation author="Wang, FM" journalOrPublisher="2). The Mission Press, Serampore" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" refId="B23" refString="Wang, FM, Ye, HG, Zhao, NX, 2003. Studies on the spermatophytic flora of E'huangzhang Nature Reserve in Yangchun of Guangdong Province. Guihaia 23(6): 495-504, 522." title="Studies on the spermatophytic flora of E'huangzhang Nature Reserve in Yangchun of Guangdong Province. Guihaia 23 (6): 495 - 504, 522." year="2003">Wang et al. 2003</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Wang, FM" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of Botanical Research," pageId="0" pageNumber="75" pagination="292 - 296" refId="B24" refString="Wang, FM, Ye, HG, Ye, YS, Zhou, LX, 2004. A preliminarily study on the pteridophytic flora of E'huangzhang Nature Neserve in Yangchun, Guangdong. Bulletin of Botanical Research, 24 (3): 292 - 296" title="A preliminarily study on the pteridophytic flora of E'huangzhang Nature Neserve in Yangchun, Guangdong." volume="24" year="2004">2004</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.381.1.14" author="Ding, QL" journalOrPublisher="Phytotaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" pagination="107 - 115" refId="B5" refString="Ding, QL, Zhao, WY, Yin, QY, Ye, HG, Song, HZ, Liao, WB, 2018. Begonia ehuangzhangensis (sect. Diploclinium, Begoniaceae), a new species from Guangdong, China. Phytotaxa 381 (1): 107 - 115, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.381.1.14" title="Begonia ehuangzhangensis (sect. Diploclinium, Begoniaceae), a new species from Guangdong, China." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.381.1.14" volume="381" year="2018">Ding et al. 2018</bibRefCitation>
). The new species is also expected to occur in the Yunkaishan National Nature Reserve, Maoming City, because this area shares a similar tectonic history with
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ehuangzhang">E'huangzhang</normalizedToken>
. Therefore, we proposed for the vernacular name of the species as
<normalizedToken originalValue="yuèxīxuěhuā">yuexīxuehua</normalizedToken>
(粤西雪花).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Preliminary conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">
The species is endemic to the Guangdong Province. According to our field survey, there are only two localities in which
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Argostemma ehuangzhangense</emphasis>
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is recorded and each population consists of 100-250 individuals. The number of mature individuals of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Argostemma ehuangzhangense</emphasis>
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is more than 400, but less than 1000. Thus, we believe that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Argostemma ehuangzhangense</emphasis>
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would be considered VU (Vulnerable) in an official IUCN Red List assessment (
<bibRefCitation author="Ding, QL" journalOrPublisher="Phytotaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="75" publicationUrl="https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/redlistguidelines" refId="B6" refString="2022. . https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/redlistguidelines" url="https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/redlistguidelines" year="2022">IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee 2022</bibRefCitation>
) according to the D criterion.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Paratypes.</paragraph>
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China. Guangdong Province: Yangchun City, Bajia Town,
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Nature Reserve,
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="111" direction="east" minutes="25" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="111.416664">111°25'E</geoCoordinate>
, a.s.l. 704 m, 29 Apr. 2017,
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,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Zhong-Chong Liu YHG-06</emphasis>
(SYS); same locality, 5 Aug. 2017,
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,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Wan-Yi Zhao</emphasis>
,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="75">Zhong-Chong Liu YC2017-35</emphasis>
(SYS); Yangchun City, Bajia Town,
<geoCoordinate degrees="21" direction="north" minutes="52" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="21.866667">21°52'N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="111" direction="east" minutes="25" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="111.416664">111°25'E</geoCoordinate>
, a.s.l. 750 m, 1 Aug. 2001,
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(IBSC); Dianbai County, Luokeng Town, Shuangjifeng,
<geoCoordinate degrees="21" direction="north" minutes="52" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="21.866667">21°52'N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="111" direction="east" minutes="21" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="111.35">111°21'E</geoCoordinate>
, a.s.l. 400 m, 8 Aug. 2001,
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(IBSC).
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