<p><strong><em>Peliosanthes revoluta </em></strong><strong>(Asparagaceae), a new species from limestone areas in southwestern Guangxi, China</strong></p>

Abstract

The genus Peliosanthes Andrews (1810: 605) belonging to the family Asparagaceae is represented by more than 70 species in tropical and subtropical Asia (IPNI 2019). In the past 15 years many species have been discovered and described from China, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (Tanaka 2004, Tamura et al. 2008, Averyanov &amp; Tanaka 2012, Averyanov et al. 2013, 2015a, 2015b, 2017, Nguyen et al. 2017, Roy et al. 2017, Vislobokov 2016, Vislobokov et al. 2018). In September 2015, we collected plants of Peliosanthes growing in shadow, primary broad-leaved evergreen forests on rocky limestone mountains in southwestern Guangxi, China. They had fasciculate flowers in the axils and hence appears to be closely allied to P. teta Andrews (1810: 605), but after a close study, we found them differ clearly from the former in many significant diagnostic characters. We therefore consider the plants to represent an undescribed species and name them here.

New and noteworthy species of Ophiopogon and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) from Laos, Vietnam and Thailand

“…These three genera are widely distributed over the temperate to tropical regions of south, southeast and east Asia (Jessop 1976, Tanaka 2001). The number of known species of this group, especially of Peliosanthes , has been rapidly increasing during the past decades (Fang 1998, Tanaka 1999, 2018, Averyanov and Tanaka 2012, Averyanov et al 2015, 2016, 2020, Vislobokov 2016, Nguyen et al 2017b, 2020, Nong et al 2019, Borah et al 2020, Odyuo et al 2020, Roy et al 2020, Tanaka and Kalyuzhny 2020, Taram et al 2020, Vislobokov et al 2020). A similar situation is found in Aspidistra Ker Gawler (1822: 628), another Asian member of Ophiopogoneae, or Nolinoideae (Lang et al 1999, Bogner and Arnautov 2004, Tillich 2005, 2014, Averyanov and Tillich 2014, Vislobokov et al 2014, Nguyen et al 2017a, Tanaka 2017).…”