New taxa of Agapetes (Ericaceae) from Myanmar

Tong, Yanhong; Xia, Nian He

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.184.1.5

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“…In several other genera, such as Begonia , Impatiens , Zingiber , Calanthe , Strobilanthes , Hoya , and Agapetes ( Fig. 5 ), recent taxonomic studies have contributed to progress on the flora of Myanmar ( Wood and Scotland, 2009 ; Tong and Xia, 2014 ; Kurzweil and Ormerod, 2018 , 2019 ; Ruchisansakun et al, 2018 ; Aung and Tanaka, 2019 ; Hughes et al., 2019 ; Maw et al, 2020 ; Rodda et al., 2019 ; Yang et al, 2019 ) and increased our understanding of the diversity of these genera in Myanmar. However, although temperate components (e.g., Rhododendron and Primula ) and some tropical dominant genera (e.g., Ficus , Ixora , Syzygium , and Diospyros ) in Myanmar are highly diverse, our knowledge of these components is relatively limited ( Kress et al, 2003 ; Table S3 ).…”

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Contributions to the flora of Myanmar from 2000 to 2019

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Myanmar is botanically rich and floristically diverse: one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. However, Myanmar is still very unevenly explored, and until a plant checklist was published in 2003, relatively little work was done on its flora. This checklist included 11,800 species of spermatophytes in 273 families. Since this checklist was published, the botanical exploration of Myanmar has accelerated and there have been many additional publications. We therefore surveyed the literature of taxonomic contributions to Myanmar’s vascular flora over the last 20 years (2000–2019) and compiled a list of new and newly described taxa. Our list includes 13 genera, 193 species, 7 subspecies, 19 varieties, and 2 forms new to science; and 3 families, 34 genera, 347 species, 4 subspecies, 7 varieties, and 1 form newly recorded in Myanmar. Altogether, they represent 91 families and 320 genera. Most of the new discoveries belong to 15 families, with more than 25% (146 taxa) belonging to Orchidaceae. These new discoveries are unevenly distributed in the country, with about 41% of the newly discovered species described from Kachin State in northeast Myanmar. This reflects the incompleteness of our current knowledge of the flora of Myanmar and the urgent need for a greatly expanded effort. The completion of the flora of Myanmar requires more fieldwork from north to south, taxonomic studies on new and existing collections, and some mechanism that both coordinates the efforts of various international institutions and initiatives and encourages continued international cooperation. In addition, producing modern taxonomic treatments of the flora of Myanmar requires the participation of experts on all vascular plant families and genera. There is also an urgent need to attract young scientists to plant taxonomy, to work on inventories, identification, nomenclature, herbarium work, and comparative studies.

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Contributions to the flora of Myanmar from 2000 to 2019

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“…Studies on plant diversity of Myanmar initiated by the flora publications of Hooker (1872Hooker ( , 1879Hooker ( , 1882Hooker ( , 1885Hooker ( , 1890Hooker ( , 1894Hooker ( , 1897 and Kurz (1877aKurz ( , 1877b proceeded very slowly until the presentation of the most recent Myanmar Plant Checklist (Kress et al, 2003). Since then, many new species or newly recorded species in Myanmar have been continuously reported by various researchers around the world (Tanaka and Nagamasu, 2006;Tanaka et al, 2002Tanaka et al, , 2006aTanaka et al, , 2006bTanaka et al, , 2009Tanaka et al, , 2010aTanaka et al, , 2010bTanaka et al, , 2010cTanaka et al, , 2015Tanaka and Hughes, 2007;Ito et al, 2009;Murata et al, 2010;Yukawa et al, 2010;Tanaka and Hayami, 2011;Gowda et al, 2012;Ormerod, 2011;Tanaka, 2012aTanaka, , 2012bPaul, 2013;Wilkin et al, 2013;Peng et al, 2014;Tong and Xia, 2014;Tan et al, 2015;Cho et al, 2016aCho et al, , 2016bPaton et al, 2016;Tanaka and Peng, 2016;Aung et al, 2017;Jin and Kyaw, 2017;Kang et al, 2017a;Liu et al, 2017;…”

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New records of flowering plants for the flora of Myanmar collected from southern Shan State

Kyaw¹,

Ong

2018

Korean J. Pl. Taxon

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Myanmar's plant diversity is expected to be very high given the wide variety of climates and the diverse vegetation and geographical features of the country. Since the publication of Kress et al.'s plant checklist in 2003, new and unrecorded species have been constantly reported by various botanists, but much of Myanmar's flora requires more intensive examinations. We conducted joint floristic surveys of several Ywangan areas, including the Panlaung-Pyadalin Cave Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Shan State of Myanmar. The initial identification of seed plant specimens collected from three short floristic expeditions revealed that 23 species were newly recorded species in Myanmar. More than half of these were found to be geographically notable species, which are known to be endemic to neighboring countries such as China (4 spp.), Thailand (6 spp.), and India (2 spp.). A considerable number of these unrecorded species are distributed in the limestone areas of neighboring countries, reflecting the geological characteristics of the survey area. The results of this study reemphasize the need for intensive and continuous research on the flora of Myanmar for a more comprehensive understanding of the distribution patterns of flowering plants in Southeast Asia.

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“…Agapetes D. Don ex G. Don (Ericaceae), with ca 100 species, is mainly distributed from the East Himalayas through south‐west China and Indochina to south‐east Asia (Fang and Stevens ). According to the most recent taxonomic works, 54 species and two varieties of Agapetes are recognized in China, including the recently published A. xiana (Fang and Stevens , Tong , 2016). Most Agapetes species are epiphytic on large tree trunks or rocks with thick moss vegetation in virgin forests.…”

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“…Most Agapetes species are epiphytic on large tree trunks or rocks with thick moss vegetation in virgin forests. In recent years, as more and more investigations to previously inaccessible areas have been conducted, such as in northern Myanmar and southern Xizang, new species of Agapetes have continuously been found and published (Tong and Xia , Tanaka et al , Tong , Zhou et al 2017).…”

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Agapetes yingjiangensis (Ericaceae), a new epiphytic species of A. ser. Longifiles from Yunnan, China

Tong

Wang

Xia

2019

Nordic Journal of Botany

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Agapetes yingjiangensis (Ericaceae), a new species from Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China is described and illustrated. This new species is somewhat similar to A. mannii Hemsl., but differs in having brown‐hirsute young branches, acute mucronate apex of the leaf blade and sparsely hirsute pedicel, calyx tube and corolla. A key to Chinese species with small (less than 2.5 cm) entire leaves in Agapetes sect. Agapetes ser. Longifiles is included.

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New taxa of Agapetes (Ericaceae) from Myanmar

Cited by 11 publications

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Contributions to the flora of Myanmar from 2000 to 2019

Contributions to the flora of Myanmar from 2000 to 2019

New records of flowering plants for the flora of Myanmar collected from southern Shan State

Agapetes yingjiangensis (Ericaceae), a new epiphytic species of A. ser. Longifiles from Yunnan, China

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