Hemiboea lutea sp. nov. (Gesneriaceae) from Guangxi, China. (9th December 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wen, Fang; Zhao, Bo; Liang, Gui‐You; Wei, Yi‐Gang
• Is Part Of: Nordic journal of botany. Volume 31:Number 6(2013:Dec.)
• Page Start: 720
• Page End: 723
• Publication Date: 2013-12-09
• Subjects: Botany -- Periodicals; Mycology -- Periodicals; 580
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.01697.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0107-055X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p> <italic>Hemiboea lutea</italic> F. Wen, G. Y. Liang &amp; Y. G. Wei, a new species in Gesneriaceae is described and illustrated from Guangxi, China. It differs from the similar species <italic>H. cavaleriei</italic> by having sessile or subsessile leaves, longer peduncles (6–10 cm), spheroidal or triangular‐spheroidal subinvolucre, 5‐divided calyx with lobes fused for 1/3 of their length, revolute and uncinate apex of calyx lobes, larger bright yellow corolla (5–7 cm long), longer staminodes with indistinctively uncinate anther and longer pistil (3.5–3.7 cm).</p> </abstract>