TITLE:
A New Species of Gentiana, Gentiana ciliolata and It’s Two Subspecies of subsp. ciliolata and subsp. longiloba of Yunnan & Sichuan Provinces
AUTHORS:
Shaoyong Yang, Haifeng Cao, Fan Du, Juan Wang, Qiaorong Zhang, Wen-Tsai Wang
KEYWORDS:
New Species, Gentiana ciliolate, subsp. ciliolate, subsp. longiloba, Yiliang County, Leibo County, Jinsha River, Yunnan Province, Sichuan Province
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Plant Sciences,
Vol.11 No.7,
July
28,
2020
ABSTRACT: A new species of Gentiana (Gentianaceae), Gentiana ciliolata is described and illustrated; it has
a spectacular characteristics of calyx lobe ciliolate, distributed in Yunnan
and Sichuan Provinces on the two sides of Jinsha River, and then two subspecies
have been further re-classified as Gentiana ciliolata subsp. ciliolata and Gentiana ciliolata subsp. longiloba respectively. The subsp. ciliolata idistributes on the right
side of Jinsha River in Yiliang County, Yunnan Province and the subsp. longiloba distributes itself on the southwest
and west part of Sichuan Province, such as Leibo County, Wenchuan County and
Mabian Yi Autonomous Prefacture, in the grassland under forests and moist rock
slopes at an altitude of 1300 - 3200 m.