TY -JOUR
AU -Wen-Bin Xu
AU -Shou-Jun Zhang
AU -Hua-Fei Cen
AU -Jun He
AU -Gang Yao
TI -<i>Leptopus longipedicellatus</i>, a new species of <i>Leptopus</i> (Phyllanthaceae) from Guangxi Province, China
PY -2025
DA -2025-08-14
JO -Taiwania
VL -70
IS -4
SP -599
EP -605
UR -https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/2115
AB -<i>Leptopus longipedicellatus</i>, a new species of Phyllanthaceae from Guangxi Province, China, is described. Results from phylogenetic analyses of the nuclear ribosomal intergeneric transcribed spacer (nrITS) and plastid marker matK showed that the new species has a close relationship with <i>L. fangdingianus</i>, <i>L. malipoensis</i> and <i>L. pachyphyllus</i>, and it might be the sister of L. pachyphyllus, another endemic species to Guangxi Province. Morphologically, the new species could be distinguished from all other species of Leptopus by its long pedicels of female flowers and fruits, which are 3.0‒4.5 cm in length. Additionally, the new species further differs from <i>L. pachyphyllus</i> by its narrower sepals of male flowers (1.2‒1.5 mm wide vs. 2.5‒3.0 mm wide) that are yellow-white to slightly green in color (vs. reddish), petals of male flowers subequal to the sepals in length (vs. about 1/2 to the sepals in length), filaments of stamens 3.0‒4.0 mm long (vs. ca. 1.6 mm long), smaller sepals of female flowers (3.0‒4.0 × 1.1‒1.6 mm vs. 5‒6 mm × ca. 4.0 mm), disc in female flowers shallowly bilobed for ca. 1/5 of length (vs. deeply bilobed for 1/3‒1/2 of length).
DO -10.6165/tai.2025.70.599