Bredia reniformis (Melastomataceae), a new species from Guangxi, China

Abstract

Bredia reniformis, a new species of Melastomataceae from Guangxi, China, is described and illustrated. Bredia reniformis is similar to B. plagiopetala (C. Chen) R. C. Zhou & Ying Liu and B. gracilis (Hand.‐Mazz.) Diels by having axillary inflorescences and flowers with eight isomorphic stamens, but differs from the latter two in having glandular‐puberulous indumentum, reniform calyx lobes and shortly falcate yellowish anthers with obconical dorsal appendages.

Three new species of Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) from the Sino-Vietnamese border area

“…Morphological data for the new species and previous recorded karst species were obtained through field expeditions, herbarium specimens (A, E, GXMI, IBK, IBSC, PE, SYS, VNMN) and literature (Chen 1984;Chen and Renner 2007;Wen et al 2019;He et al 2020) surveys as well as by observing living individuals in the facilities of Sun Yat-sen University.…”

“…Bredia Blume (Melastomataceae) as currently circumscribed contains 24 species distributed from central and southern mainland China, Taiwan, northern Vietnam, to the Ryukyu Islands and Yakushima, Japan (Zhou et al 2019a;Wen et al 2019;Dai et al 2020;He et al 2020) These species share obvious resemblance in their isomorphic stamens and undulate petal margin ciliate with glandular hairs and thus are easily distinguished from the remaining species of the genus (Fig. 1).…”

“… Bredia Blume ( Melastomataceae ) as currently circumscribed contains 24 species distributed from central and southern mainland China, Taiwan, northern Vietnam, to the Ryukyu Islands and Yakushima, Japan ( Zhou et al 2019a ; Wen et al 2019 ; Dai et al 2020 ; He et al 2020 ). Five species of Bredia , namely B.…”