identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
2EC807E5DA735213A76F7D8CF06E67A5.text	2EC807E5DA735213A76F7D8CF06E67A5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lonicera lanzhouensis Shun Liu & Yu J. Wang 2025	<div><p>Lonicera lanzhouensis Shun Liu &amp; Yu J. Wang sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1, 2</p><p>Type.</p><p>China • Gansu: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=102.99455&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=36.81" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 102.99455/lat 36.81)">Lanzhou</a>, 36.810001°N, 102.994549°E, 3012 m elev., May thirtieth, 2022, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904293 (Holotype, LZU!; Isotypes, LZU!), Figs 1, 2  .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Shrub erect, up to 2 m tall. Stems cylindrical, branched. Branches solid with white pith. Petiole 1.5–2.5 cm long, inconspicuously pubescent. Leaves opposite, leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, stiffly papery, 2–4 cm × 0.5–0.8 cm, hairy, narrow, margin with irregular undulations, entire, apex tapering. Inflorescence thyrsoid, axillary, cymes opposite and reduced to paired flowers, pedunculate with a pair of bracts and 2 pairs of bracteoles; bracts long, ca. 4.5 mm × 0.5 mm, bracteoles wide and short, ca. 0.5 mm × 0.5 mm. Paired flowers with free ovaries. Pedicels 1.5–2.5 cm long, Calyx 5 - lobed, with sparse glandular hair. Corolla bilabiate, yellow-green at the beginning, turns into reddish-purple after anthesis, ca. 1.4 × 0.5 cm; tube shallowly to deeply gibbous toward base, outside sparsely spreading hairy, inside puberulent; lower lip slightly recurved; upper lip 4 - lobed to middle. Stamens subequaling corolla, filaments pubescent. Ovary inferior, locules 2; style ca. 1.1 cm long, slender, hairy; stigmas capitate. Fruit a berry, round, green, turns red when mature, ca. 0.6 cm in diameter.</p><p>L. lanzhouensis is morphologically most similar to  L. webbiana and can be readily distinguished from it by having narrow leaves, yellow-green flowers at the beginning and reddish-purple when mature, and long involucrate bracts. In contrast,  L. webbiana has ovate-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate leaves, red flowers and short involucrate bracts.</p><p>Phenology.</p><p>Flowering: May to June, Fruiting: June.</p><p>Distribution and habitat.</p><p>L. lanzhouensis is found only in Lanzhou, Gansu, China with a population of about 500 individuals. It grows in a spruce forest at elevation of 2870–3300 m.</p><p>Additional specimens examined.</p><p>China • Gansu: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=102.620804&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=36.71948" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 102.620804/lat 36.71948)">Lanzhou City</a>, Yongdeng County, 36.719479°N, 102.620805°E, 3271 m elev., June 27 th, 2018, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904106 (LZU!) ; •  36.712555°N, 102.631604°E, 3254 m elev., June 27 th, 2018, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904107 (LZU!); •  36.810001°N, 102.994549°E, 3012 m elev., July 1 st, 2018, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904108 (LZU!); •  36.726978°N, 102.603234°E, 3300 m elev., July 12 th, 2018, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904287 (LZU!); •  36.727188°N, 102.605435°E, 3211 m elev., July 12 th, 2018, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904288 (LZU!); •  36.7192°N, 102.621335°E, 3005 m elev., July 13 th, 2018, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904289 (LZU!); •  36.710396°N, 102.634037°E, 2907 m elev., July 13 th, 2018, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904290 (LZU!); •  36.707924°N, 102.635953°E, 2878 m elev., July 13 th, 2018, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904291 (LZU!); •  36.707694°N, 102.698808°E, 3297 m elev., August 19 th, 2019, Y. J. Wang WYJ 201904292 (LZU!) .</p><p>Chinese name.</p><p>Lanzhou rendong (兰州忍冬).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The specific epithet indicates its type locality, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2EC807E5DA735213A76F7D8CF06E67A5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liu, Shun;Wang, Yu-Jin	Liu, Shun, Wang, Yu-Jin (2025): Lonicera lanzhouensis (Caprifoliaceae), a new species from Gansu, Northwest China. PhytoKeys 256: 83-90, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.256.142365
