Pseudochirita
Pseudochirita guangxiensis (S.Z.Huang) W.T.Wang var., type and only species.
Ying T.S. et al., The endemic genera of seed plants in China, Fig. 122 (1993); with permission.
Pseudochirita guangxiensis (S.Z.Huang) W.T.Wang var. guangxiensis, type variety
Li Z.Y & Wang Y.Z., Plants of Gesneriaceae in China, Figs. 1.97 and 1.98 (2004); with permission.
Pseudochirita guangxiensis (S.Z.Huang) W.T.Wang var. guangxiensis, type variety
Li Z.Y & Wang Y.Z., Plants of Gesneriaceae in China, Figs. 1.97 and 1.98 (2004); with permission.
Pseudochirita guangxiensis (S.Z.Huang) W.T.Wang var. glauca Y.G Wei et Yan Liu
Li Z.Y & Wang Y.Z., Plants of Gesneriaceae in China, Figs. 1.101 and 1.102 (2004); with permission.
Pseudochirita trifoliata T.V.Do & F.Wen; habit, inflorescence and flower details.
Do et al. (2021), Fig. 2. Source: www.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.489.2.6
Photos: V.N. Do, taken at type locality.
Pseudochirita
Full name and orig. publication: Pseudochirita W.T.Wang, Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin, 1: 21 (Dec. 1983).
Etymology: Composed of the Greek ψευδος, pseudos = false, and the generic name Chirita.
Infrafamilial position: Didymocarpoideae-Trichosporeae-Didymocarpinae (Weber et al. 2013).
Description: Perennial herbs to 1 m tall, sericeous all over. Leaves opposite, slightly anisophyllous, petiolate, lamina ovate or elliptic, serrate. Cymes axillary, pedunculate, with few to several flowers; bracteoles oval to suborbicular. Sepals connate, forming a campanulate calyx, lobes rounded. Corolla white, limb bilabiate, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens 2; filaments inserted at middle of corolla tube, filiform, slightly curved; anthers basifixed, coherent, thecae parallel, longicidally dehiscent, locules not confluent at apex; staminodes 2. Nectary annular. Ovary slender cylindrical; stigma unequally bilobed. Capsule slender cylindrical, loculicidally dehiscent.
Chromosome number: Unknown.
Species number: 2.
Type species: Pseudochirita guangxiensis (S.Z.Huang) W.T.Wang, with two varieties.
Species names: P. guangxiensis (S.Z.Huang) W.T.Wang (with two varieties), P. trifoliata T.V.Do & F. Wen.
Distribution: S China (C & W Guangxi), N Vietnam.
Ecology: Growing in forests on limestone hills.
Notes: The differences between the two species are slight, the specific rank of P. trifoliata should be re-considered.
Selected references: Wang et al. in Wu & Raven (eds.), Fl. China 18: 293 (1998); Wei & Liu, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 42: 555-556 (2004), new var.; Do et al., Phytotaxa 489(2): 182–190 (2021), new sp.
Tax. details, cytology, and bibliography: Gesneriaceae Resource Centre (GRC). Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
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