| TITLE |
Colocasia lihengiae (Araceae: Colocasieae), a new species from Yunnan, China |
| AUTHOR |
Chun-Lin Long
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming 650204, Yunnan, China
Ke-Ming Liu
Department of Botany, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China |
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| ABSTRACT |
A new species of Colocasia Schott, C. lihengiae C. L. Long et K. M. Liu, sp. nov., is described and illustrated. The species is restricted to the rainforest of Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan, China. Diagnostic morphological characters that distinguish the new species from the related species, C. fallax Schott, are discussed. Chromosome numbers (2n=28) were observed in plants of C. lihengiae cultivated at the Kunming Botanical Garden. |
| KEYWORD |
Araceae; China; Colocasia lihengiae; New species; Taxonomy; Xishuangbanna; Yunnan; |
| ARTICLE INFO |
Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Volume 42 Number 4 October 2001, page 313-317, 5 pages |
| PUBLISHER |
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China |
