Tuesday, October 1, 2024

[Botany • 2024] Euphorbia zhongiana (Euphorbiaceae, subgenus Esula) • A New Species from Danxia Landform Areas in Zhejiang Province, Eastern China

  

 Euphorbia zhongiana  

in Li, Xu, F. Chen, Pu, Xie, ... et Liang, 2024.
 
Abstract
Euphorbia zhongiana (Euphorbiaceae), from Zhejiang Province, eastern China, is described and illustrated as a new species. It is morphologically similar to E. fauriei, however, differs in its winter green habit, whole plant being glabrous; cyathophylls 2, broadly ovate, yellow-greenish; involucre 2.5–3.0 × 2.5–3.0 mm; the surface of ovary usually smooth, rare sparsely microtuberous; styles connate at middle towards base; apex slightly 2–lobed; capsules smooth without tuberculate or conical verrucae, rare sparsely and inconspicuously rugose; seed coat with reticulate wrinkle.

Euphorbia zhongiana, new species, morphological characters, phylogenetics analysis, Eastern China, Eudicots


Jun-Ping LI, Pan XU, Feng CHEN, Jin-Bao PU, Wen-Yuan XIE, Jun-Feng WANG, Jian-Sheng WANG, Hua-Min ZHU, Zheng-Hai CHEN and Wei-Qing LIANG. 2024. Euphorbia zhongiana (Euphorbia section Helioscopia, subgenus Esula, Euphorbiaceae), A New Species from Danxia Landform Areas in Zhejiang Province, Eastern China. Phytotaxa. 665(2); 96-108. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.665.2.2