Three new species of (Nepetoideae, Lamiaceae) from China.

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Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China Kunming Institute of Botany Kunming China.

Published: September 2024

Three new species of (Lamiaceae) from China are described and illustrated, based on both morphological evidence and our recent phylogenomic studies of the genus. , a herbaceous new species known only from the Fanjing Mountain, is shown to be sister to , but they can be easily distinguished by leaf and inflorescence indumentum, calyx teeth shape and corolla tube morphology. , a herbaceous new species collected from the Hengduan Mountains in southwest China, represents a distinct lineage within the genus. , a shrubby new species also endemic to the Hengduan Mountains, was previously misidentified as , but they are phylogenetically distantly related and differ in lamina size and margin, inflorescence type and corolla length and shape.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11427802PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.246.130432DOI Listing

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