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Vacciniummotuoense (Ericaceae), a new species from Xizang, China
Yi-Hua Tong1,2, Wang-Lin Zhao3, Bing-Mou Wang4
1Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization & Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden of Guangdong Province, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China.
Abstract:
Vacciniummotuoense (Ericaceae), a new species from Motuo County, Xizang Autonomous Region, China is described and illustrated. This new species belongs to Vacciniumsect.Calcicolus and is morphologically most similar to V.dunalianum, but differs in having yellowish-brown tomentose young branches, petioles and inflorescence rachis, leaf blades with 2-3(-4) pairs of secondary veins, usually all basal and with fine veins impressed adaxially and urceolate to spherical corollas.
