Author(s)

Shaoyong Yang¹, Haifeng Cao², Fan Du^3*, Juan Wang⁴, Qiaorong Zhang⁵, Wen-Tsai Wang⁶

¹Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China.
²Shanghai Museum of TCM, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
³College of Forest Resources, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China.
⁴Eco-Development Academy, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China.
⁵Fire Research Institute, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China.
⁶State Key Laboratory of Systematics and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

A new species of Gentiana (Gentianaceae), Gentiana ciliolata is described and illustrated; it has a spectacular characteristics of calyx lobe ciliolate, distributed in Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces on the two sides of Jinsha River, and then two subspecies have been further re-classified as Gentiana ciliolata subsp. ciliolata and Gentiana ciliolata subsp. longiloba respectively. The subsp. ciliolata idistributes on the right side of Jinsha River in Yiliang County, Yunnan Province and the subsp. longiloba distributes itself on the southwest and west part of Sichuan Province, such as Leibo County, Wenchuan County and Mabian Yi Autonomous Prefacture, in the grassland under forests and moist rock slopes at an altitude of 1300 - 3200 m.

New Species, Gentiana ciliolate, subsp. ciliolate, subsp. longiloba, Yiliang County, Leibo County, Jinsha River, Yunnan Province, Sichuan Province

Yang, S. , Cao, H. , Du, F. , Wang, J. , Zhang, Q. and Wang, W. (2020) A New Species of Gentiana, Gentiana ciliolata and It’s Two Subspecies of subsp. ciliolata and subsp. longiloba of Yunnan & Sichuan Provinces. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 11, 1137-1143. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2020.117080.