A distinctive new species of Viola (Violaceae) from Yunnan, China |
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| Authors: | YOU-SHENG CHEN QIN-ER YANG |
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| Affiliation: | Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanxincun 20, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, People's Republic of China |
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| Abstract: | A new species of Viola (Violaceae) from north-western Yunnan, China, is described and illustrated. Viola dimorphophylla Y. S. Chen & Q. E. Yang sp. nov. is endemic to Zhongdian County, north-western Yunnan, and is very easily distinguishable from all other Chinese species of the genus by having obviously dimorphic leaves, with the basal ones being long petiolate, undivided and widely cordate, and the cauline ones sessile, linear and verticillate. © 2005 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2005, 149 , 115–119. |
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| Keywords: | section Dischidium Ging. subsection Brevicalcaratae W. Beck. taxonomy |
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