taxonID	type	description	language	source
9B9835915DC555EDA9FDFBA449E20B63.taxon	description	Figs 3, 4	en	Ma, Xu-Dong, Li, Hui-Min, Xie, Ying, Zhu, Jun-Wen, Wen, Jun, Zhou, Wei, Wu, Bao-Cheng, Song, Chun-Feng (2025): Acronema handeloides, a new species from Jiaozi Mountain, Yunnan Province, China (Apiaceae). PhytoKeys 267: 81-91, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.267.174758
9B9835915DC555EDA9FDFBA449E20B63.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Acronema handeloides has flowers and fruits similar to A. handelii and A. sichuanense but differs from these latter in its frequently branched stems (1 – 2 branches), fewer number of umbel rays and umbellule rays, 1 – 3 bracteoles, and variable shape of basal leaves. These three species are readily distinguishable by key morphological characteristics, as detailed in Table 3 and Fig. 2.	en	Ma, Xu-Dong, Li, Hui-Min, Xie, Ying, Zhu, Jun-Wen, Wen, Jun, Zhou, Wei, Wu, Bao-Cheng, Song, Chun-Feng (2025): Acronema handeloides, a new species from Jiaozi Mountain, Yunnan Province, China (Apiaceae). PhytoKeys 267: 81-91, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.267.174758
9B9835915DC555EDA9FDFBA449E20B63.taxon	description	Description. Annual to biennial herbs, glabrous, 1 – 10 cm tall. Roots spherical to ellipsoidal, 3 – 4 mm in diameter. Stems slender, with 1 – 2 lateral branches or unbranched. Basal leaves: petiole 8 – 30 mm, sheath narrow; leaf blade polymorphic, 1 – 1.5 cm long, 1.3 – 2 cm wide; when simple, blade broadly ovate, base truncate to slightly cordate, margin irregularly serrate, or trifid to tripartite, lobes obovate, apex trifid; when trifoliolate, leaflets short-petiolulate, apex trifid, lobes shallowly 1 – 3 - lobed at apex; when 2 - ternate, pinnately compound, ultimate segments obovate, apex trilobed. Cauline leaves similar to basal ones, occasionally simple and lanceolate. Peduncle 1.5 – 2.5 cm long; bracts 1 or absent, lanceolate; rays 2 – 5, 5 – 20 mm long, subequal; bracteoles 1 – 3, subulate; umbellules 2 – 5, 4 – 9 mm long, subequal. Calyx teeth subulate, conspicuous. Petals purplish red, ovate to obovate, ca. 1 mm long; apex linear-subulate, papillate, ca. 1 mm long. Fruit broadly ovoid, ca. 1 × 1.5 mm, base cordate, glabrous; primary ribs filiform, inconspicuous; vittae 1 – 2 in each furrow, 2 on the commissure.	en	Ma, Xu-Dong, Li, Hui-Min, Xie, Ying, Zhu, Jun-Wen, Wen, Jun, Zhou, Wei, Wu, Bao-Cheng, Song, Chun-Feng (2025): Acronema handeloides, a new species from Jiaozi Mountain, Yunnan Province, China (Apiaceae). PhytoKeys 267: 81-91, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.267.174758
9B9835915DC555EDA9FDFBA449E20B63.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet ‘ handeloides ’ is derived from the combination of “ handel ” (from Acronema handelii) and the suffix “ - oides ” (meaning “ resembling ”), indicating the morphological similarity of this new species to A. handelii. The Chinese name “ 拟中甸丝瓣芹 ” (nĭ zhōng diàn sī bàn qín) is a direct translation from the epithet, used to maintain nomenclatural consistency and avoid ambiguity.	en	Ma, Xu-Dong, Li, Hui-Min, Xie, Ying, Zhu, Jun-Wen, Wen, Jun, Zhou, Wei, Wu, Bao-Cheng, Song, Chun-Feng (2025): Acronema handeloides, a new species from Jiaozi Mountain, Yunnan Province, China (Apiaceae). PhytoKeys 267: 81-91, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.267.174758
9B9835915DC555EDA9FDFBA449E20B63.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. This new species is currently only found in the moss understory of the Rhododendron forest at 3700 m on Jiaozi Mountain in Luquan County, Kunming, Yunnan (Fig. 5).	en	Ma, Xu-Dong, Li, Hui-Min, Xie, Ying, Zhu, Jun-Wen, Wen, Jun, Zhou, Wei, Wu, Bao-Cheng, Song, Chun-Feng (2025): Acronema handeloides, a new species from Jiaozi Mountain, Yunnan Province, China (Apiaceae). PhytoKeys 267: 81-91, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.267.174758
