Taxonomic studies of Glochidion (Phyllanthaceae) from the Indo-China Peninsula (I): G. shanense, a new species from Myanmar

Gang Yao; Jie Cai; Youheng Wu; Xuefei Yang; Thaung Naing Oo; Aung Zaw Moe; Shixiao Luo

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.96.24497

Taxonomic studies of Glochidion (Phyllanthaceae) from the Indo-China Peninsula (I): G. shanense, a new species from Myanmar

PhytoKeys. 2018 Mar 27:(96):57-62. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.96.24497. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Gang Yao¹, Jie Cai², Youheng Wu³, Xuefei Yang^{4

5}, Thaung Naing Oo⁶, Aung Zaw Moe⁶, Shixiao Luo^{1

2

7

3

4

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ South China Limestone Plants Research Centre, College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
² Plant Germplasm and Genomics Centre, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, China.
³ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 1000049, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
⁵ Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar.
⁶ Forest Research Institute, Forest Department, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar.
⁷ Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 516650, China.

Abstract

Based on morphological studies performed on live plants in the field and specimens deposited in herbaria, a new species, Glochidion shanense Gang Yao & Shixiao Luo (Phyllantheae, Phyllanthaceae), is here described and illustrated. The species is morphologically most similar to G. ellipticum Wight, but can be distinguished from the latter by having hairy branchlets, longer pedicels, uniseriate and narrowly triangular sepals of female flowers, 4-5-locular ovaries, stout and cylindric persistent style on fruits.

Keywords: Glochidion; Morphology; Myanmar; Phyllanthaceae.

Grants and funding

The Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.