Lycoris wulingensis, a dwarf new species of Amaryllidaceae from Hunan, China

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Amaryllidaceae · Topics: Chemical synthesis and alkaloids, Plant and animal studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution

Lycoris wulingensis S.Y. Zhang, a new species from Hunan Province (central South China), is described and illustrated. This new species is a fertile diploid plant and its karyotype is 2n = 22. It is most similar to L. × haywardii in morphology, but the latter is a hybrid species and distributed in East China and the plant is much larger. Amongst the original species, L. wulingensis is similar to L. radiata, but differs from it in its flowers being rose-red (vs. red) and stamens and tepals are nearly the same length (vs. stamens significantly longer than tepals).

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