TITLE	Senecio kuanshanensis (Asteraceae), a new species from southern Taiwan
AUTHOR	Shih-Wen Chung Division of Forest Biology, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, 53 Nanhai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan Ching-I Peng Institute of Botany, Academic Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan
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ABSTRACT	A new species of Asteraceae from Taiwan, Senecio kuanshanensis C.-I Peng & S.W. Chung, a distinct member of sect. Crociseris (Reichenb.) Hall. & Wohlf. ser. Nemorenses Gagnidze, is described and illustrated. Senecio kuanshanensis is apparently rare, presently known only from mountain ridges of Kuanshan, at (2,500-)3,000-3,300 m elevation in the southern part of the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan. In habit the new species somewhat resembles S. morrisonensis Hayata, an endemic congener from Taiwan, but it is clearly distinct in having longer peduncles (3-7 cm vs. 0.5-2[-3] cm), longer involucres (8-10 mm vs. 4.5-6 mm), longer corolla tube in the disc florets (4-5 mm vs. 3-3.5 mm), longer rays (9-14 mm vs. 5.5-7.2 mm) in the ray florets, and median cauline leaves that are deeply bipinnatipartite to tripinnatipartite (vs. serrate to coarsely dentate or deeply pinnately lobed).
KEYWORD	Asteraceae; Compositae; New species; Rare species; Senecio kuanshanensis; Senecioneae; Taiwan; Taxonomy;
ARTICLE INFO	Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Volume 43 Number 2 April 2002, page 155-159, 5 pages
PUBLISHER	Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China