Monday, December 23, 2024

[Botany • 2023] Cleisostoma mulunense (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae) • A New Species from Guangxi, China

  

Cleisostoma mulunense  Ying Qin & Yan Liu, 

in Qin, Tan, Luo et Liu, 2023. 
木论隔距兰  ||  DOI: doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.616.3.9 
 
Abstract
Cleisostoma mulunense, a new species of Orchidaceae from Mulun National Nature Reserve, Guangxi, China, is described and illustrated. It is close to C. menghaiense, but can be easily distinguished from the latter mainly by its yellowish green to yellow, with purplish brown flowers, suboblong dorsal sepal, broadly oblong and obviously oblique lateral sepals, oblong petals, lip median lobe with 2 basal backward triangular lobules, cylindroid spur. Detailed morphological descriptions, colour photographs and other information of the new species are provided.

Monocots, limestone flora, morphology, new taxon, taxonomy



Cleisostoma mulunense Ying Qin & Yan Liu
mù lùn gé jù lán. 木论隔距兰


Ying QIN, Wei Ning TAN, Liu Juan LUO and Yan LIU. 2023. Cleisostoma mulunense (Orchidaceae), A New Species from Guangxi, China.  Phytotaxa. 616(3); 295-300. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.616.3.9 [2023-09-28] 

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