Callicarpa bachmaensis Soejima & Tagane (Lamiaceae), a new species from Bach Ma National Park in Thua Thien Hue Province, Central Vietnam

Akiko Soejima; Shuichiro Tagane; Ngoc Nguyen Van; Chinh Nguyen Duy; Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong; Tetsukazu Yahara

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.62.7974

Callicarpa bachmaensis Soejima & Tagane (Lamiaceae), a new species from Bach Ma National Park in Thua Thien Hue Province, Central Vietnam

PhytoKeys. 2016 Mar 25:(62):33-9. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.62.7974. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Akiko Soejima¹, Shuichiro Tagane², Ngoc Nguyen Van³, Chinh Nguyen Duy⁴, Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong⁵, Tetsukazu Yahara²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan.
² Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.
³ Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan; Department of Biology, Dalat University, 1 - Phu Dong Thien Vuong, Dalat, Vietnam.
⁴ Department of Biology, Dalat University, 1 - Phu Dong Thien Vuong, Dalat, Vietnam.
⁵ Dept. of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Abstract

A new species, Callicarpa bachmaensis Soejima & Tagane, sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Bach Ma National Park in Thua Thien Hue Province, Central Vietnam. This species has a characteristic liana habit, white corolla, and narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, entire, occasionally subequal leaves, by which it is clearly distinguished from the other previously known species of this genus.

Keywords: Bach Ma National Park; Callicarpa; Lamiaceae; Thua Thien Hue; Vietnam; new species.