Vaccinium motuoense (Ericaceae), a new species from Xizang, China

Authors: Tong, Yi-Hua Country: People's Republic of China DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.181.71522 Published: Jan. 1, 2021 Source: PhytoKeys OpenAlex: View in OpenAlex

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Morphology · Topics: Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

Vaccinium motuoense (Ericaceae), a new species from Motuo County, Xizang Autonomous Region, China is described and illustrated. This new species belongs to Vaccinium sect. Calcicolus and is morphologically most similar to V. dunalianum, but differs in having yellowish-brown tomentose young branches, petioles and inflorescence rachis, leaf blades with 2–3(–4) pairs of secondary veins, usually all basal and with fine veins impressed adaxially and urceolate to spherical corollas.

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