Magnolia bawangensissp. nov. (Magnoliaceae) from Hainan, China

Abstract

Magnoliaceae), a new species from the Mount Bawangling, Hainan Province, China, is described and illustrated. It is closely related to M. paenetalauma Dandy, but differs by being a smaller tree with fewer spathe scars, absence of pedicels, pubescent and more numerous tepals, white pubescent and more numerous stamens.

Seed Plant Endemism on Hainan Island: A Framework for Conservation Actions

“…In addition, 27 of the endemics are officially regarded as National Protected Key Wild Plants (First Batch) or Endangered or Rare Species of Chinese Angiosperms by the Chinese Government (Compilation Group of China's Biodiversity, 1998;Yu, 1999). In addition, the conservation status of nine of the most recently described Hainan endemics was assessed using IUCN criteria at the time of publication (Fan et al, 2007;Meng et al, 2007;Yu et al, 2007;Wang, 2008;Liu et al, 2009;He et al, 2009a, b;Zhang et al, 2009). In total, 144 of the seed plants endemic to Hainan have been assigned a conservation status, either by using the IUCN criteria or by being included in governmental protection lists (Table 6).…”

Editorial

“…However, Asiatic vascular plant taxonomy has been a major topic also in previous issues of Nordic Journal of Botany and in the last three volumes no less than 81 articles within this area have been published. The largest country in the region, both in terms of geography and ongoing research is undoubtedly China and naturally enough this is also reflected in the number of published articles (Häkkinen and Wang 2008a,b, Jin et al 2008, 2009a,b, Yi et al 2008, Zhang et al 2008, 2009, Bi et al 2009, 2010,Chen et al 2009a, 2009b, 2010, Dong et al 2009a,b, Jin 2009, Liu et al 2009, Yang et al 2009, Xia and Li 2009, Weng et al 2009, Cong et al 2010, Guo et al 2010, He et al 2010, Xu et al 2010, Wang et al 2010, Wei and Wang 2010). Second largest is India with 11 recent contributions (Banik and Sanjappa 2008, Baruah and Nath 2008, Raole and Desai 2008, Viswanathan and Manikandan 2009, Kandwal and Gupta 2010, Karthigeyan et al 2010a,b, Pusalkar and Singh 2010, Sujanapal and Sasidharan 2010, Tandyekkal and Mohanan 2010, Yadav et al 2010), but we have also published numerous significant contributions to our knowledge of the plant biodiversity of southeastern‐most Asia, i.e.…”

“…Several of these contributions deal with genera and families well known to be unique and characteristic components of the Asiatic flora. Thus, in the last three issues, four new taxa of bamboos have been described (Zhang et al 2008, Guo et al 2010, Trân et al 2010, Zhang and Li 2010), five new taxa of Magnolia and closely related genera (Yi et al 2008, Dong et al 2009b, Liao and Xia 2009, Liu et al 2009, Vu and Xia 2010), three new Rhodondron taxa (Jin et al 2009a,b, Chen et al 2010) and three new species of Zingiberaceae (Ngamriabsakul 2008, Li et al 2009, Sujanapal and Sasidharan 2010). It is also noteworthy that no less than six new taxa of the genus Impatiens have been discovered (Jin et al 2008, Bi et al 2009, 2010, Dong et al 2009a, Cong et al 2010).…”