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<mods:namePart>Chen, Wen-Hong</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Nguyen, Hieu Quang</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Shui, Yu-Min</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="E5FC5358-B6A1-5690-8C45-AB42F71D81A9" authority="W. H. Chen &amp; Y. M. Shui" authorityName="W. H. Chen &amp; Y. M. Shui" authorityYear="2020" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Gesneriaceae" genus="Primulina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Primulina xuansonensis" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="217" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="xuansonensis" status="sp. nov.">Primulina xuansonensis W.H.Chen &amp; Y.M.Shui</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Type.</paragraph>
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Vientam. Phu Tho Province: Xuan Son County, Xuan Son National Park, 
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, 
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, 438 m a.s.l., without flowers and fruits, 8 April 2016, introduced at Kunming Botanical Garden, in flower from October to December 2017, 
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(holotype, KUN!; isotype, CPC!).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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The new species is similar to 
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(W.T. Wang) Mich. 
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&amp; A.Weber in having prominent bracts, with a corolla, the outside of which is white. However, it differs in its bracts 1.6-2.5 
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1.3-1.5 cm (vs. bracts 2.5-3.8 
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2.2-2.8), corolla 3-3.5 cm long (vs. corolla 4.5-5 cm long), corolla tube slightly curved near the base (vs. not curved), inflated on the adaxial surface near the corolla lobes (vs. not inflated) and corolla abaxial lip lobes rounded (vs. triangular).
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Herbs perennial. Stem absent. Leaves basal; petiole 2-5 cm long, strigose; blade carnose and papyraceous when dry, ovate to rounded, 11-18 
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8.5-11 cm, base cuneate, apex round, margin crenate from the base, adaxially sparsely strigose, abaxially sparsely strigose; venation penninerved, lateral veins 5-7 on each side of the midrib. Cymes umbel-like, axillary, ca. 9-flowered; peduncle 6.5-8.5 cm long, densely strigose; bracts 2, triangular-ovate, 1.6-2.5 
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1.3-1.5 cm, both sides densely strigose, margin with ca. 2-minute dentes near apex; pedicel 1-1.2 cm long, glandular-pubescent; bracteoles 2, narrowly ovate, ca. 1.2 
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0.4 cm, both sides densely strigose. Calyx 5-parted to the base, segments lanceolate, 0.8-1 
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ca. 0.3 cm; apex acute, margin entire, outside glandular-pubescent, inside strigose. Corolla funnelform, zygomorphic, 3-3.5 cm long, ca. 0.8 cm wide at the throat, outside white, densely glandular-pubescent, inside white with two yellow stripes along the abaxial lip, glabrous; tube 2-2.3 cm, slightly curved near the base; limb 2-lipped; adaxial lip 2-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, ca. 0.5 
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0.8 cm; abaxial lip ca. 1.2 
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1.7 cm, 3-lobed to the middle, lobes rounded, middle lobe ca. 0.8 
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0.7 cm, lateral lobes ca. 0.6 
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0.7 cm. Stamens 2, adnate to the abaxial side of corolla tube ca. 1.4 cm above base; anthers glabrous; filaments glabrous, ca. 0.5 cm long; staminodes 3, ca. 1 mm long, glabrous, lateral two adnate to ca. 1 cm above the corolla base, central staminode adnate to ca. 0.6 cm above the corolla base. Disc ring-like, 1-2 mm high. Pistil glandular-pubescent, ca. 1.6 cm long; ovary linear, ca. 1 cm long; style linear, ca. 0.6 cm long; stigma cuneate, 2-lobed. Capsule unknown.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Figure 3.</emphasis>
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W.H.Chen &amp; Y.M.Shui, sp. nov. (
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(W.T.Wang) Mich. 
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&amp; A.Weber (
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habit 
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view of adaxial leaf 
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inflorescence 
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bracts 
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face view of flower 
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lateral view of flower 
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birds-eye view of the opened corolla, arrow showing the staminodes (sta.) 
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pistil and calyx, arrow showing the disc ring 
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habitat of 
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face view of flower and bracts.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Flowering from October to December, fruiting from December to January from cultivated plants.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="217">The name refers to the type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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The new species only grows in the limestone 
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rock crevices and distributes in the type locality, Xuan Son National Park of Pho Tho Province, North Vietnam.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Provisional conservation status.</paragraph>
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We observed it in the field with very few individuals (about ten individuals). Due to the similarity of plants without flowers in the genus 
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, we did not pay attention to the species in the field, so the number of mature individuals remains unknown. Provisionally, it is best to consider it as Data Deficient (DD) (
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; IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee 2017).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Note.</paragraph>
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Within the genus 
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, there is a morphological species complex with prominent shell-like bracts, such as 
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B. Pan &amp; S. X.Huang, 
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Hance, 
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(W.T. Wang) Mich. 
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&amp; A.Weber, 
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, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="217">P. maguanensis</emphasis>
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(Z.Yu Li, H.Jiang &amp; H.Xu) Mich. 
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&amp; A.Weber, 
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(D. Fang &amp; W. T. Wang) Yin Z.Wang, 
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(W.T. Wang) Mich. 
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&amp; A.Weber and 
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(W.T. Wang) Mich. 
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&amp; A.Weber (e.g. 
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; 
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; 
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; 
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; 
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). Within the above complex, the new species is different from all the others in its white throat outside the corolla, except for 
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. Furthermore, the new species is different from 
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in its bracts 1.6-2.5 
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1.3-1.5 cm, corolla 3-3.5 cm long, corolla tube slightly curved near the base, inflated on the adaxial surface near the corolla lobes and corolla abaxial lip lobes rounded. 
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, however, has bracts 2.5-3.8 
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2.2-2.8 cm, corolla 4.5-5 cm long, corolla tube not curved, not inflated on the adaxial surface near the corolla lobes and corolla abaxial lip lobes triangular. In a word, the new species is unique in its narrow and curved corolla tube amongst the above complex with prominent bracts (Table 
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Table 2.</emphasis>
Morphological comparison of 
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W.H. Chen &amp; Y. M. Shui and 
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(W.T. Wang) Mich. 
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&amp; A.Weber.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="217">Primulina xuansonensis</emphasis>
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1.6-2.5 
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1.3-1.5 cm
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2.2-2.8 cm
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="217" rowspan="1">3-3.5 cm long, ca. 0.8 cm wide at the throat</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="217" rowspan="1">Slightly curved near the base, inflated on the adaxial surface near the corolla lobes</td>
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