A new species of Viola L. (Violaceae) from Sichuan, China |
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| Authors: | YOU-SHENG CHEN QIN-ER YANG |
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| Institution: | Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanxincun 20, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China |
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| Abstract: | Viola muliensis Y.S. Chen & Q.E. Yang, a new species of Viola L. (Violaceae) from Sichuan, China, is described and illustrated. Viola muliensis is endemic to Muli County, south-western Sichuan. This new species has yellow flowers with very short spurs and belongs to subsection Brevicalcaratae W. Beck., section Dischidium Ging. It is distinguished from other related species by having pedatipartite leaves. © 2005 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2005, 149 , 365–368. |
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| Keywords: | endemism IUCN taxonomy |
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