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Viola maoershanensis Y.S. Chen & Q.E. Yang

kingdom Plantae - plants » divisio Magnoliophyta - flowering plants » class Rosopsida - eudicots » order Malpighiales » family Violaceae » tribus Violeae > genus Viola > Viola sect. Plagiostigma Godr. > Viola subsect. Diffusae W. Becker

Viola maoershanensis Y.S. Chen & Q.E. Yang

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Distributional Range: Native Asia-Temperate CHINA: China [Guangxi: Xing’an County, Mt Maoershan] Endemic

Habitat: This species is known only from its type locality, growing under bamboo forests in a mountain valley at an altitude of 650 m

Etymology: The new species is named after its type locality, Mt Maoershan, Guangxi: Xing’an County, Mt Maoershan, Chaoran Valley, 650 m.

Description: Viola maoershanensis is similar to V. diffusa, but differs in the leaf blades being serrate, truncate or shallowly cordate at the base and not decurrent to the petiole, the petioles wingless, the flowers larger, the petals bluish-violet or pinkishwhite and the lower petal obtuse at the apex.

References:

‐Chen Y-S. et al. Two new stoloniferous species of Viola (Violaceae) from ChinaBotanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009, 159, 349–356. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00911.x

Viola maoershanensis (photographed by Y.S.Chen). Fig. 7, habit. Fig. 8, flower in front view. Fig. 9, flower in side view. Fig. 10, fruit.

Viola maoershanensis Y.S.Chen & Q.E.Yang grows under bamboo forests in the Mt Maoershan Chaoran valley (Xing’an County)

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