Dai Ke-min Ying Te-hsiao
A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS PAEONIA FROM CHINA
Bull Bot Research Harbin 10(4): 33-41, f 1 (1990)
(Shaghai Medical University Shanghai), (Aletai Biochemical Factory. Xinjiang).
Paeonia altaica K. M. Dai et T. H. Ying, sp. nov.
Affinis P. veitchii Lynch, a qua petalis apice haud emarginatus, floribus majoribus 1018cm diam. granis pollinis subglobosis, cellulis subereis aspecctu superficiali polygonis, granis amylaceus minoribus 714 micro-m diam. differt.
Herba perennis. Caules 90120cm alti, teretes, glabri. Folia alterna, ternata vel biternata; fotiola pinnatifida, lobis lanceolatis vel anguste lanceolatis. 3.515cm longis, 0.54cm latis, apice acuminatis, margine integris, supra viridibus ad costam nervosque pubescentibus, subtus pallide viridibus glabris, nervis supra obscuris subtus leviter elevatis; petiolulis foliorum terminalium 20mm longis, lateralium 7mm longis; petioli 315cm long. Flores 24, terminates et axillares, 1018cm diam.; bracteae 23, viridies, lineares, 3.515cm longae, 0.33cm latae; sepala 5, viridia vel purpureo-suffusa, late ovata vel rotundo-ovata, 1.52.5cm longa, 12cm lata, apice longe caudata, margine integris; petala 613 purpurea vel rosea, obovata, 37cm longa, 1,54cm lata, apice leviter crispata non emarginata; stamina numerosa, 916mm longa, antheris flavis, linearibus, 35mm longis, granuis pollinis subglobosis 26.4 micro-m longis, 28.6 micro-m latis, filamentis albis, tenuibus, 611mm longis, discus annularis, humilis 23mm altus; carpella 25, conica 1.21,8cm longa, apice in stylum breve attenuata, dense flavo-hirsuta, stigmato leviter roseo recurvato. Folliculi 1.5 3cm longi, dense flavo-hirsuti, 1cm diam. Semena nigra, 47mm longa. glabra.
Xinjiang: Habaho, Wuzliti , alt. 1550m, 9 June 1986, T. H. Ying No. 1007 (Typus fl. in Herb. Univ. Med. Shanghai conserv.); eodeum loco, 27, Aug. 1986, T. H. Ying No. l022i Aletai , xiaoiownguo , alt. 1330m 30, May 1986. T. H. Ying No. 1002i eodem loco, 27, Aug. 1985, T. H. Ying No. 983.
ABSTRACT
We developed a new species. Paeonia altaica K.M.Daiel T. H. Ying in Altaica. Sinjiang. Based on morphological, light microscopical, scanning electron microscopical and chromatographical examinations and in comparison with Chuan Chishao, P. veitchii Lunch which is clearly distinguished from it. the P. altaica K. M. Dai is proposed as a new species.
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