<Emphasis Type="Italic">Croton borbensis</Emphasis>, a new species of Euphorbiaceae from white sands of Amazonian Brazil

A new species of Euphorbiaceae, Croton borbensis, is described and illustrated from western Amazonian Brazil. It shares features similar to another white sand Amazonian species, C. dissectistipulatus, but differs in having leaves with a serrulate-glandulose margin, no evident stipules, staminate flowers with six stamens and glabrous pedicels, pistillate flowers with few, shortly stipitate glands on the calyx, and a glabrous ovary. Croton borbensis is tentatively placed in section Barhamia.     

A new species of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Comocladia</Emphasis> (Anacardiaceae) from Belize and Guatemala

Comocladia mayana, a new species of Anacardiaceae, is described, mapped and illustrated. The species is endemic to western Belize and adjacent Guatemala and is restricted to semi-deciduous moist forest on karstic limestone formations. It differs from all other Comocladia species by the combination of entire to subentire, acuminate leaflets and tetramerous staminate flowers.     

Eriogonum soliceps (Polygonaceae: Eriogonoideae), a new species from east-central Idaho and southwestern Montana

Eriogonum soliceps, a new species of subg.Eucycla sect.Capitata, is described. It may be readily distinguished from all other taxa of the subgenus by its reduced inflorescence. From its presumed nearest relative,E. mancum, this new species differs in its solitary (vs. 2–5) involucre, presence of a peduncle but no scape, lack of bracts at the base of the involucre, and distinctly pustulose midribs of the mature flowers.     

Listera fugongensis (Orchidaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

Listera fugongensis, a new species from Yunnan, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is probably related to Listera nipponica, but differs from it by having green flowers, petals slightly wider than lateral sepals, and a toothed lip with ciliate margins.     

Tropaeolum sparrei sp. nov. (Tropaeolaceae) from western Ecuador

A new species, Tropaeolum sparrei Ståhl (Tropaeolaceae), is described from submontane cloud forest habitat in western Ecuador. It differs from T. papillosum Hughes (the species it resembles most) by having thinner, tomentose stems, smaller, glabrous or subglabrous leaves with the petiole inserted relatively closer to the lower leaf margin, and flowers with uniformly coloured and straight calyx spurs. In leaf shape it is also similar to T. repandum Heilborn, from which it differs in its larger flowers with entirely black petals and blue anthers.     

Spiradiclis densa sp. nov. (Rubiaceae) from limestone areas in Guangxi,China

A new species of Rubiaceae, Spiradiclis densa, is described and illustrated from southwestern China. It is similar to S. tomentosa, but differs in the elliptic or oblong leaf blades, distylous flowers and inner sides of corolla tube with dense pubescence near throat. The conservation status of the new species is preliminarily assessed as ‘Vulnerable’ according to IUCN categories and criteria.     

A new species of Acanthosyris (Santalaceae) from Bolivia and a key to the woody South American Santalaceae

Acanthosyris asipapote, a new species from the vicinity of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, is described and illustrated. It is most similar to A. paulo-alvinii Barroso, known only from the state of Bahia, Brazil, but differs by leaf characters, pilose filaments, and smaller seeds. A key to the five woody genera and nine species of Santalaceae in South America is provided. Cervantesia, Jodina, and Myoschilos are probably monotypic; Santalum (in South America) has a single species, and Acanthosyris has five species.     

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Bazzania okaritana, a new species from South Island, New Zealand, is described and illustrated, and a comparison with similar species is made. The new species is most similar to Bazzania hochstetteri (Reichardt) E.A. Hodgs. and Bazzania exempta J.J. Engel, but differs in several respects from both these species.     

Magnolia nuevoleonensis sp. nov. (Magnoliaceae) from northeastern Mexico and a key to species of section Macrophylla

We describe and illustrate Magnolia nuevoleonensis A. Vázquez & Domínguez‐Yescas, a new deciduous tree species that belongs to M. sect. Macrophylla Figlar & Nooteboom. It is morphologically similar to M. ashei Weath., but differs from the latter in being a larger tree, with smaller flowers, larger and broadly ovoid (vs cylindrical to ellipsoid) fruits, prominently beaked (vs shortly beaked) carpels, and firm and short (vs flexible and elongated) styles.     

A new species of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Mentzelia</Emphasis> section <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bartonia</Emphasis> (Loasaceae) from the Grand Canyon,Arizona

Mentzelia hualapaiensis, a new species of Mentzelia sect. Bartonia, is described from the Grand Canyon region of Arizona. The new species is closely related to M. puberula, which is found west of M. hualapaiensis along the Colorado River, and to M. oreophila, M. polita, and M. tiehmii. It shares with these species a suffrutescent shoot system characterized by a subterranean, branching caudex, multiple annual branches, and similar leaves that have shallowly lobed or toothed to entire laminas. The flowers of M. hualapaiensis differ from those of its closest relatives in having cream-white, linear to narrowly spatulate petals and staminodes, characteristics that are convergent with those of the flowers of the Chihuahuan Desert species M. humilis.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">Colletoecema gabonensis</Emphasis>, a third species of an unusual African genus of Rubiaceae

As a result of ongoing studies of the Rubiaceae of Gabon, the new species Colletoecema gabonensis is here described and illustrated. It is endemic to Gabon, where it is the only species of the genus, and is so far only known from three collections from the Ogooué-Lolo and Ngounié provinces. The new species is morphologically intermediate between its two congeners, C. dewevrei (from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, DR Congo, and Angola) and C. magna (endemic to Cameroon). The new species agrees with C. dewevrei in having flowers with exserted anthers and style, but differs in its sessile flowers and fruits. In the latter characters, it resembles C. magna, from which it can be separated by its smaller fruits and leaves, and by its different floral morphology. An IUCN conservation assessment has been made and the species is provisionally assessed as Vulnerable, based on its restricted area of occupancy and the small number of known locations.     

Primulina suichuanensis sp. nov. (Gesneriaceae) from Danxia landform in Jiangxi,China

Primulina suichuanensis X. L. Yu & J. J. Zhou, a new species of Gesneriaceae from Jiangxi, China, is described and illustrated. Morphologically, the new species is most similar to P. roseoalba, but differs by entire leaf blade margin, narrowly ovate bracts, reddish–purple or bluish–purple corolla, 3.0–3.4 cm long corolla tube, white filaments, and 3.6 cm long pistil. It flowers from September to November.     

A new species of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Symplocos</Emphasis> (Symplocaceae) from the Itatiaia Plateau of Brazil

Symplocos minima, a new species of Symplocos section Hopea from the Itatiaia Plateau in the Atlantic Rain Forest biome of southeastern Brazil, is described and illustrated. This species is distinguished by its densely compact shrubby habit, ascending leaves, fasciculate inflorescences with several persistent bracts, corolla with five to six erect lobes, pistillate flowers with the disc not thickened along the margin, fruiting calyx lobes obscuring the disc, and seeds sub-orbicular in cross section. The new species is morphologically related to S. itatiaiae and S. pentandra, but can be differenciated from them mainly due to the tree habit and fruiting calyx lobes not obscuring the disc in S. itatiaiae and the pistillate flowers with a disc that is thickened along the margin in S. pentandra.     

卫矛属一新变种——腥臭卫矛

报道了卫矛属(Euonymus)一新变种——腥臭卫矛(Euonymus sanguineus var.paedidus L.M.Wang)。该新变种与原变种石枣子(Euonymus sanguineus Loes.var.sanguineus)相似,但其独特的强烈腥臭花不仅明显可与石枣子区别,而且也有别于卫矛属中所有其他种类。另外,该变种叶柄极短,一般短于5mm,可以与原变种区别。对腥臭卫矛的分布与生境做了简略讨论。     

Three new species of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Stelis</Emphasis> (Orchidaceae) from Mexico

Three new species of the genus Stelis from Mexico are described and illustrated; they were recently collected in the Tacana volcano region of Chiapas, and are named as S. annedamoniae, S. hagsateri, and S. soconuscana. For each species information is provided about habitat, phenology, and conservation status, and the relationships with similar taxa are discussed. Stelis andamoniae is similar to S. hagsateri and both are sympatric at the Tacana volcano; they are members of the Stelis argentata complex. The first has red-wine flowers, and glabrous sepals, while S. hagsateri has greenish-yellow flowers and glandular-papillose sepals. Stelis soconuscana is similar to S. bidentata, from which it is different by its broader leaves, raceme as long as the leaf, smaller flowers, and its distribution.     

大兴安岭舟形藻科(硅藻门)中国新记录植物

在大兴安岭沼泽硅藻生物多样性的研究过程中,对采自大兴安岭的600余号标本进行了详细的观察,共观察到舟形藻科中国新记录植物10个分类单位,隶属于4个属,其中类缝藻属1种:粗脉肋缝藻;长篦藻属3种:大长篦藻、细尖长篦藻、双型长篦藻;舟形藻属1种:乌普萨拉舟形藻;辐节藻属5种:两头辐节藻、河生辐节藻、细长辐节藻、豆形辐节藻、地中海辐节藻。本文对这些种类的分类学特征及生态分布特点进行了详细的描述。     

A new species of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Dalea</Emphasis> sect. <Emphasis Type="Italic">Parosela</Emphasis> (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Amorpheae) from Guerrero,Mexico

Dalea gymonocodon is described from eastern Guerrero, Mexico. It is referred to Dalea subgenus Parosela series Pectinatae. Morphologically similar to Dalea escobilla, it differs by its leaf characters, with 2–6 pairs of leaflets, and by its greenish (drying pale greenish-yellow) flowers.     

Rotala pseudojuniperina sp. nov. (Lythraceae) from India

A new species, Rotala pseudojuniperina, is described and illustrated. It grows in a seasonal pond on a high altitude lateritic plateau ecosystem of the northern Western Ghats, India. It resembles the African species R. juniperina in having trimerous flowers, but differs in longer sepal appendages, ovoid capsule and ellipsoid seeds. Amongst the Indian species, R. pseudojuniperina shows affinities towards R. densiflora but differs in trimerous flowers, ovoid capsule and longer and ellipsoid seeds.     

A new species of Tapirira (Anacardiaceae) from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,Mexico

Tapirira chimalapana is a new species of tree common in the rain forests and lower montane forests of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Oaxaca. It is most similar to the AndeanT. guianensis Aubl. subsp.subandina Barfod &; Holm-Niels. but differs from this and all other congeners by having larger petals on pistillate flowers than on staminate flowers and by pubescence features. Details of field characteristics, distribution, ecology, phenology, germination, and local names and uses are included.