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<mods:namePart>Qin, Wei-Hua</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Ding, Dong-Dong</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Li, Zhong-Lin</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Gao, Yun-Feng</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Administration of Yuhe Provincial Nature Reserve, CN- 746000, Longnan, Gansu Province, China</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Li, Shu</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>The Gesneriad Conservation Center of China, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN- 541006, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Hong, Xin</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University, CN- 230601, Hefei, Anhui Province, China &amp; The Gesneriad Conservation Center of China, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN- 541006, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China</mods:affiliation>
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<taxonomicName LSID="5089CC8E-0CDB-5F20-92CC-67120256040F" authority="Xin Hong" authorityName="Xin Hong" authorityYear="2020" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Gesneriaceae" genus="Oreocharis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Oreocharis flavovirens" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="flavovirens" status="sp. nov.">Oreocharis flavovirens Xin Hong</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Oreocharis flavovirens Xin Hong in natural habitat A habitat, growing on the surface of rocks B vegetative part of plants C top view of corolla D lateral view of corolla E bud, showing the shape and indumentum of calyx F young capsule. Scale bars: 2 cm (B); 1 cm (C-F)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys..31732.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/445661" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Figures 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Morphological character of Oreocharis flavovirens Xin Hong A-B different sizes of leaves (A adaxial leaves B abaxial leaves) C indumentum of petiole D abaxial leaf blades, showing veins and indumentum E cyme and infructescence F bracts G dissection of a flower H opened corolla, showing stamens and staminodes I pistils without corolla, showing stigma J young capsule K disc and calyx revolute of the young capsule. Scale bars: 2 cm (A-C); 1.5 cm (D, E); 3 mm (F, I, K), 1 cm (G, H, J)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys..31732.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/445662" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">, 2</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Xin Hong" authorityYear="2020" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Gesneriaceae" genus="Oreocharis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Oreocharis flavovirens" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="flavovirens">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis flavovirens</emphasis>
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can be diagnosed as a new species from all others in the genus by the upturned corolla tube combined with its rare greenish-yellow colour.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Type.</paragraph>
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CHINA. Gansu Province: Yuhe Provincial Nature Reserve, Longnan City, 
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, 
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, 1,193 m a.s.l., 5 September 2018, flowering, Xin Hong: 
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(holotype: IBK; isotype: PE).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Figure 1.</emphasis>
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Xin Hong in natural habitat 
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habitat, growing on the surface of rocks 
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vegetative part of plants 
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top view of corolla 
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lateral view of corolla 
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bud, showing the shape and indumentum of calyx 
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young capsule. Scale bars: 2 cm (
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); 1 cm (
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Description.</paragraph>
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Perennial, rosette herbs. 
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basal, spirally arranged, 4-20, petiolate; petioles terete, 1.4-4 cm long, ca. 2 mm in diameter, densely reddish-brown long woolly and white glandular hairy; leaf blades ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6 
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1.5-3 cm, bases cuneate, slightly unequal, margins crenate to lobulate, apices obtuse, papery, adaxially sparsely rust-brown villous hairy, green, abaxially densely brown villous along veins, pale green; midrib usually vivid when fresh, lateral veins 3-5 on each side of midrib, distinct, concave adaxially, prominent abaxially. 
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cymes, axillary, 1-2(-3)-branched, 1-6(-10)-flowered; peduncles 4-10 cm long, pale green, densely white glandular hairy and sparsely brown pilose; pedicels 1-3(-5) cm long, with indumentum as on the peduncle. 
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2, ca. 3 
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1 mm, lanceolate, margins entire, green, glabrous inside, brown pilose and sparsely glandular hairy outside; bracteoles similar but smaller, ca. 1.5 
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0.5 mm. 
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actinomorphic, 5- sect from base, segments oblong to linear-lanceolate, 2-3.5 
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ca. 1.0 mm, green, glandular hairy outside and glabrous inside, margins entire, sometimes revolute when flowering. 
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zygomorphic, ca. 2 cm long, greenish-yellow to greenish, lobes greenish, becoming white at tube base, outside densely glandular-pubescent, inside glabrous; tube cylindrical, dilated and slightly narrowing gradually ventricose from base to throat and constricted at the throat, ca. 15 mm long, ca. 3 mm in diameter at base and ca. 2 mm in diameter at the throat; limb slightly 2-lipped; adaxial lip rounded, 2.5-3 
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ca. 3 mm, emarginate or rarely undivided, shorter than abaxial lip; abaxial lip 3-sect from above middle, lobes obovate to elliptic, apex rounded, central longer than laterals, 3 
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4-ca. 3 mm. 
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4, adnate to corolla 1-4 mm above base, included; filaments slender, the long two ca. 8 mm long, the short two ca. 6 mm long, sparsely glandular-pubescent, free, white to greenish; anthers yellow, basifixed, coherent in pairs, thecae divergent at base, oblong, ca. 0.5 mm long, 2-loculed, dehiscing longitudinally from arcuate slits, connective not projecting, glabrous; staminode 1, glabrous, 0.5-1.5 mm long, adnate to 1 mm above corolla tube base. 
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ring-like, 1-1.5 mm high, glabrous, entire or subentire, greenish-yellow. 
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1-1.2 cm; ovary narrowly oblong, 1-loculed, ca. 1 cm long; placentas 2, parietal, projecting inwards, 2-cleft, style 1-2 mm long, glabrous; stigma orbicular, emarginated, ca. 2 mm in diameter. 
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oblong lanceolate to oblanceolate, straight, 2-4 cm long, dehiscing loculicidally to base; valves 2, glabrous. 
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unknown.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Figure 2.</emphasis>
Morphological character of 
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Xin Hong 
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different sizes of leaves (
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adaxial leaves 
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abaxial leaves) 
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indumentum of petiole 
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abaxial leaf blades, showing veins and indumentum 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">E</emphasis>
cyme and infructescence 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">F</emphasis>
bracts 
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dissection of a flower 
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opened corolla, showing stamens and staminodes 
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pistils without corolla, showing stigma 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">J</emphasis>
young capsule 
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disc and calyx revolute of the young capsule. Scale bars: 2 cm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">A-C</emphasis>
); 1.5 cm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">D</emphasis>
, 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">E</emphasis>
); 3 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">F, I, K</emphasis>
), 1 cm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">G</emphasis>
, 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">H</emphasis>
, 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">J</emphasis>
).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">The specific epithet is derived from its greenish-yellow corolla.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
To date, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis flavovirens</emphasis>
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is only found at the type locality, Yuhe Provincial Nature Reserve, Gansu Province, which is located at the intersection of the Qinling Mountains and the Minshan Mountains. This species grows amongst moss on moist shady surfaces of stones near waterfalls, at an elevation of 950-1200 m a.s.l. The average temperature is 21°C, the average annual precipitation has been calculated as ca. 780 mm. The forest is a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Notes.</paragraph>
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As is known, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Benth. is a genus (more than 120 species) in the angiosperm family 
<taxonomicName family="Gesneriaceae" lsidName="" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rank="family">Gesneriaceae</taxonomicName>
, which are mainly distributed in southern and south-western China, at the same time with a few species extending into Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Japan and Thailand (
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, 
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Möller">Moeller</normalizedToken>
et al. 2016
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, 
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, 
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). SW China is rich in species diversity of the genus in China, especially on the north-facing shady slope nearby the summit of southern Yunnan Province and most species occur in relatively restricted and geographically isolated localities with very few widely distributed (
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, 
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, 
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et al. 2011
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). Only three species of this genus were found in S. Gansu province before 2019, viz. 
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(W. G. Craib) M. 
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&amp; A. Weber, 
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(Batalin) M. 
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&amp; A. Weber and 
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Oliv. 
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was first published as 
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base on the type specimens: 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Farrer et Purdom 262</emphasis>
[E, barcode no. 00135136, Fig. 
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], which grows at low elevations on rather cool rocks or very steep banks of cool clammy soil that grows a fine film of moss in S. Gansu Province (
<bibRefCitation author="Craib, WG" journalOrPublisher="Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" pagination="233 - 254" refId="B8" refString="Craib, WG, 1920. Gesneracearum novitates. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 11: 233 - 254" title="Gesneracearum novitates." volume="11" year="1920">Craib 1920</bibRefCitation>
). 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">O. glandulosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was first described as 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Didissandra glandulosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by A.T. Batalin in 1892, based on the specimens [LE, barcode no. 01043081, Fig. 
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] from G.N. 
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trip from 1884 to 1886, collected on the way from Songpan County, Tibetan Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Ngawa, NE Sichang Province to Wenxian County, Longnan City, S. Gansu Province on 17 August 1885 (
<bibRefCitation author="Batalin, A" journalOrPublisher="- Peterburgskago Botaniceskago Sada" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" pagination="163 - 178" refId="B1" refString="Batalin, A, 1892. Notae de planus asiaticis. Trudy Imperatorskago S. -Peterburgskago Botaniceskago Sada 12: 163 - 178" title="Notae de planus asiaticis. Trudy Imperatorskago S." volume="12" year="1892">Batalin 1892</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation author="Bretschneider, E" journalOrPublisher="- Peterburgskago Botaniceskago Sada" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" refId="B2" refString="Bretschneider, E, 1898. History of European Botanical Discoveries in China Vol. 1-2. Sampson Low Marston and Company, London, England, 1-1167." title="History of European Botanical Discoveries in China Vol. 1 - 2. Sampson Low Marston and Company, London, England, 1 - 1167." year="1898">Bretschneider 1898</bibRefCitation>
). 
<taxonomicName lsidName="O. henryana" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rank="species" species="henryana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">O. henryana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described and illustrated, based on the type specimens: 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">A. Henry 8999</emphasis>
[K, barcode no. 000858129, Fig. 
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], growing on shady and damp rocks in montane regions of Sichuan Province (
<bibRefCitation author="Hooker, JD" journalOrPublisher="Phytotaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" refId="B11" refString="Hooker, JD, 1890. Icones Plantarum, or figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks, of new or rare plants, selected from the author's herbarium. Vol. 23, ser. 4, 3. Longman, Reese, Orne, Brown, Green &amp;Longman, Kew, Bentham-Moxon Trust, London, t.2254." title="Icones Plantarum, or figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks, of new or rare plants, selected from the author's herbarium. Vol. 23, ser. 4, 3. Longman, Reese, Orne, Brown, Green &amp; Longman, Kew, Bentham-Moxon Trust, London, t. 2254." year="1890">Hooker 1890</bibRefCitation>
). No new species of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were described from between the early 19th and late 20th Century in the regions, the new findings complementing the species richness of the genus in Central China. Due to the high endemism in the genus (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.26492/gbs69(2).2017-08" author="Chen, WH" journalOrPublisher="Gardens' Bulletin (Singapore)" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" pagination="295 - 305" refId="B6" refString="Chen, WH, Middleton, DJ, Nguyen, HQ, Nguyen, HT, Averyanov, LV, Chen, RZ, Nguyen, KS, Moeller, M, Shui, YM, 2017b. Two new species of Oreocharis (Gesneriaceae) from Northwest Vietnam. Gardens' Bulletin (Singapore) 69 (2): 295 - 305, DOI: https://doi.org/10.26492/gbs69(2).2017-08" title="Two new species of Oreocharis (Gesneriaceae) from Northwest Vietnam." url="https://doi.org/10.26492/gbs69(2).2017-08" volume="69" year="2017 b">Chen et al. 2017b</bibRefCitation>
, 
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), Table 
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details the differences between these species growing in the same regions.
</paragraph>
<caption doi="10.3897/phytokeys..31732.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/445663" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" start="Figure 3" startId="F3">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Figure 3.</emphasis>
Type of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis farreri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(W. G. Craib) M. 
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&amp; A. Weber, stored in Herbarium of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, No. E 00135136.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption doi="10.3897/phytokeys..31732.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/445664" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" start="Figure 4" startId="F4">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Figure 4.</emphasis>
Type of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">O. glandulosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Batalin) M. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Möller">Moeller</normalizedToken>
&amp; A. Weber, stored in Herbarium of Komarov Botanical Institute, No. LE 01043081.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption doi="10.3897/phytokeys..31732.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/445665" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" start="Figure 5" startId="F5">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Figure 5.</emphasis>
Type of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis henryana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Oliv. stored in Herbarium of Royal Botanic Gardens, No. K 000858129.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
Obviously, the genus is special for its remarkable floral diversity and it has made this genus to be one of the most taxonomy-difficult groups in the family. The new species, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis flavovirens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
which has a light-yellow cylindrical corolla with a distinct upturned tube, is a good example. The shape of the corolla tube, cylindrical and upturned, is a distinct character that not many species in 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
possess. If we only consider the similarity of corolla tube shape, it is close to 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Gesneriaceae" genus="Oreocharis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Oreocharis tubiflora" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="tubiflora">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis tubiflora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
K.Y. Pan and 
<taxonomicName lsidName="O. argyreia" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rank="species" species="argyreia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">O. argyreia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Chun ex K.Y. Pan, including constriction at the mouth but the latter two are lacking the upturned corolla tube. Given the corolla shape, the corolla of several species of former 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Gesneriaceae" genus="Ancylostemon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Ancylostemon" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Ancylostemon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Craib are similar too, except the tubes are straight or slightly turned down, but not up, though the flowers are predominantly yellow (rarely pink in 
<taxonomicName lsidName="A. ronganensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rank="species" species="ronganensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">A. ronganensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
K. Y. Pan= 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis ronganensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(K.Y.Pan) Mich. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Möller">Moeller</normalizedToken>
&amp; A.Weber), but not greenish-yellow. On the other hand, the upturned tube is more reminiscent of former 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Gesneriaceae" genus="Opithandra" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Opithandra wentsaii" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="wentsaii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Opithandra wentsaii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Z.Yu Li (= 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis wentsaii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Z. Yu Li) M. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Möller">Moeller</normalizedToken>
&amp; A. Weber) and former 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Opithandra pumila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(W.T.Wang) Wang (= 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis pumila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(W.T.Wang) Mich. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Möller">Moeller</normalizedToken>
&amp; A.Weber), only here the tubes of previous 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Gesneriaceae" genus="Opithandra" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Opithandra" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Opithandra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are slightly more trumpet-shaped in dark pink or pink and have two fertile stamens rather than four (
<bibRefCitation author="Wang, WT" editor="Wu, ZY" journalOrPublisher="18. Scrophulariaceae through Gesneriaceae. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" pagination="244 - 401" refId="B21" refString="Wang, WT, Pan, KY, Li, ZY, Weitzman, AL, Skog, LE, 1998. Gesneriaceae. In: Wu, ZY, Raven, PH, Eds., Flora of China. 18. Scrophulariaceae through Gesneriaceae. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis: 244 - 401" title="Gesneriaceae." volumeTitle="Flora of China." year="1998">Wang et al. 1998</bibRefCitation>
, 
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, 
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). All in all, the upturned corolla tube combined with its greenish-yellow colour could be used alone to differentiate the new species from others in the genus.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
Furthermore, although the genus 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was redefined to accommodate species with distinctive floral morphologies from ten other genera, based on molecular phylogenetic studies in the last two decades, the evolutionary trends of the floral characters have not yet been understood comprehensively. The major causes of the incongruence and conflict between classical taxonomy and molecular phylogenetic studies for 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Gesneriaceae" genus="Oreocharis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Oreocharis" order="Lamiales" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">s.l.</emphasis>
remain largely unexplored. There are other similar examples in 
<taxonomicName family="Gesneriaceae" lsidName="" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rank="family">Gesneriaceae</taxonomicName>
of Asian, for example, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Primulina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">s.l.</emphasis>
(
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, 
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) and 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Petrocodon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">s.l.</emphasis>
(
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, 
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Additional specimens examined (paratypes).</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
Gansu Province: Yuhe Provincial Nature Reserve, Longnan City, 24 September 2019, in fruit, Yun-Feng Gao et al.: 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">WF19092401</emphasis>
(AHU).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Table 1.</emphasis>
Diagnostic character differences amongst 
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, 
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</taxonomicName>
and 
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</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Characters</emphasis>
</td>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">Oreocharis viridifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName lsidName="O. glandulosa" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rank="species" species="glandulosa">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">O. glandulosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName lsidName="O. humilis" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rank="species" species="humilis">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="101">O. humilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</td>
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<taxonomicName lsidName="O. farreri" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rank="species" species="farreri">
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</taxonomicName>
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Shape of leaf blade</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">ovate to obovate or elliptic</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">lanceolate-ovate</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">elliptic to lanceolate</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">rhombic-ovate to obovate or elliptic</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Indumentum of leaf blade</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">adaxially sparsely rust-brown villous hairy</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">adaxially densely brownish villous</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">adaxially sparsely brown villous, glabrescent</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">gray pubescent</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Number of lateral veins on each side of midrib</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">3-4</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">5-6</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">3-5</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">4-6</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Size of Bracts</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">3 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">5 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">2-4 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">3.5-5 mm</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Shape of tube</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">campanulate-tubular, laterally compressed at mouth</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">tubular to subcampanulate</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">tubular</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">campanulate-tubular</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Size of corolla</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">ca. 20 mm long</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">10-15 mm long</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">11-15 mm long</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">9-11 mm long</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Color of corolla</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">greenish-yellow to greenish</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">pale purple</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">yellow-white</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">purple-pink to orange-pink</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Shape and size of adaxial lip</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">emarginate or rarely undivided, 2.5-3 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">emarginate or rarely undivided, 4 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">2-lobed, 2 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">emarginate</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">size of abaxial lip</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">3-4 mm, longer than to nearly equalling abaxial lip</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">2 mm, shorter than to nearly equalling abaxial lip</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">3.5 mm, longer than to nearly equalling abaxial lip</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">2 mm, shorter than abaxial lip</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Staminodes</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">adnate to 1 mm above corolla tube base</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">adnate to 0.5 mm above corolla tube base</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">adnate to 3.5 mm above corolla tube base</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">adnate to 1 mm above corolla tube base</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Ovary</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">10 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">3-7 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">6-8 mm</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">4 mm</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="101">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">Stigma</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">peltate, orbicular</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">emarginate</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">2-lobed</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="101" rowspan="1">oblate</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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