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Corresponding author: Tao Deng ( dengtao@mail.kib.ac.cn ) Corresponding author: Zhi-Min Li ( lizhimin_vip@163.com ) Academic editor: Alexander Sennikov
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Liu Q, Huang G-Y, Zhang D-G, Zhang J-W, Deng T, Li Z-M (2021) Youngia hangii (Asteraceae, Crepidinae), a new species from Hubei, China. PhytoKeys 182: 27-38. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.182.71063
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Youngia hangii T.Deng, D.G.Zhang, Qun Liu & Z.M.Li, sp. nov., a new species of Asteraceae, is described and illustrated. It was collected in Wufeng County, Hubei Province, Eastern Central China. Youngia hangii is morphologically most similar to Y. rubida, but can be easily distinguished from the latter by capitula with 8–10 florets and the hairy leaf surface. Phylogenetic analyses, based on the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) and one chloroplast marker (rps16), showed that Y. hangii and Y. rubida were sister species with good support. The results of both phylogenetic analysis and the morphological data support the specific rank of Y. hangii.
Crepidinae, Hubei, molecular phylogeny, morphology, new species, Youngia
Youngia Cass. (
A lack of conspicuous distinguishing morphological features makes the Cichorieae, especially the Crepidinae, taxonomically difficult (
Due to the many floristic surveys dedicated to the flora of Hubei, a centre of Metasequoia Flora (
We compared the shape, lobes and size of the leaves, leaf surface, phyllaries, number of florets, achenes and pappus of the new collections with Y. rosthornii, Y. rubida and Y. heterophylla and with descriptions in literature, in the Herbarium of the Kunming Institute of Botany (
For molecular analysis, we sampled a sample from one population of the unknown species and obtained 38 samples from 26 related species from GenBank (Appendix
Phylogenetic trees were constructed using Bayesian Inference (BI), Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Maximum Parsimony (MP). MP analyses were conducted using PAUP v.4.0a (
China. Hubei: Wufeng County, Renheping, 30°06'27"N, 110°16'31"E, karst cave of karst topography, 500–800 m alt., 5 August 2018, Daigui Zhang & Qun Liu HAC 001 (holotype KUN (KUN1511675); isotypes KUN (KUN1511676), JSU (HHE 3256)).
Herbs, perennial, 20–35 cm tall. Taproot straight or slightly oblique, fleshy, with lateral roots (Fig.
Bayesian consensus tree of Youngia hangii and related species. The BP tree is constructed, based on the combined matrix of ITS and rps16 sequences. Numbers below branches are ML bootstraps and MP bootstraps and numbers above branches indicate Bayesian posterior probability. Youngia hangii is shown in bold.
Flowering and fruiting April to October.
五峰黄鹌菜, wǔ fēng huánɡ ān cài in Chinese Pinyin.
The species epithet honours Prof. Hang Sun (b. 1963), a Chinese botanist who has conducted research on plant taxonomy, floristics, biogeography and evolutionary biology and inspired many people through his work. He has also given a lot of support to the plant research work in Hubei.
Youngia hangii is known only from the type locality, Renheping in Wufeng Xian, Hubei, China; 500–1000 individuals are known along the edge of some small caves at the base of the karst hillside (Fig.
Morphological characteristics suggest that Y. hangii is related to Y. rubida and Y. heterophylla owning 10–25 florets and resembles Y. rosthornii with bipinnately deeply partite leaves. The achenes of Y. hangii and Y. rubida are attenuated into a short beak, which is widened into the pappus disc. Several unique features including the shape, lobes and size of the leaves, the leaves with white simple hairs (Fig.
Comparison of morphological characteristics between Youngia hangii and related species.
Character | Y. hangii | Y. rubida | Y. heterophylla | Y. rosthornii | |||
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Basal leaf | shape | oblanceolate, bipinnately partite | oblanceolate, pinnately deeply or completely partite | elliptic or oblong lanceolate, pinnately deeply or completely partite | long elliptic, bipinnately deeply partite with a large apical part | ||
lobes | shape | apical lobes halberd-shaped, apex acute, with a tapered tip, margin middle to deep lobed; lowest lobes narrowly triangular | apical lobes triangle, apex acute, with a tapered tip, margin serrate; lowest lobes serrate | apical lobes elliptic, irregularly elliptic, ovate or lanceolate, apex acute, with a tapered tip, margin entire, almost entire or serrate; lowest lobes narrowly halberd | apical lobes triangular, apex acute, with a tapered tip, margin entire, almost entire or serrate; lowest lobes narrowly triangular | ||
number of lateral lobes | 5–10 pairs | 2–3 pairs | 1–8 pairs | 5–7 pairs | |||
size | 6–18 × 2–4 cm | 3–7 × 1.5–3 cm | 13–23 × 6–7 cm | 20 × 8 cm | |||
surface | with white pubescent hairs on both surfaces, especially dense on veins | glabrous on both surfaces | sparsely pubescent on both surfaces | glabrous on both surfaces | |||
Phyllaries | 4 rows | 4 rows | 4 rows | 4 rows | |||
Number of florets | 8–10 | 13–15 | 11–25 | 20 | |||
Achenes | colour | black | red | brown-purple | brown-purple | ||
shape | fusiform, attenuated into a narrow neck, with a conical beak | fusiform, attenuated into a narrow neck, with a conical beak | fusiform, attenuated into a narrow neck, without a beak | fusiform, attenuated into a narrow neck, without a beak | |||
length | 2 mm | 2.8 mm | 3 mm | 3.5 mm | |||
ribs | 12–14 ribs with small bristles | 12 ribs with small bristles | 14–15 ribs with small bristles | 14–15 ribs with small bristles | |||
Pappus | white, rough, 3 mm | white, rough, 3.5 mm | white, rough, 3–4 mm | white, rough, 3.5 mm |
The Bayesian tree showing PP support, ML bootstrap (LP) and MP bootstrap (BP) values for each clade are presented in Fig.
Owning only 8–10 florets supports a placement of Youngia hangii in Y. sect. Youngia and its small involucres and achenes further support that Y. hangii is related to Y. rubida. However, there are some obvious differences between Y. hangii and Y. rubida and other species in the shape, lobes and size of the leaves and in white pubescent surfaces of the leaves. Moreover, Y. rosthornii also has bipinnately deeply partite leaves, but its leaves with a large apical part are different from Y. hangii.
Based on the combined datasets of the ITS and rps16 sequences, BI, MP and ML trees with similar topologies were constructed. Youngia hangii was clustered with Y. rubida and nested in Y. sect. Youngia with strong support (PP = 1, LP = 87, BP = 74) and was sister to the clade of Y. rubida with strong support (PP = 1, LP = 83, BP = 88). The results from the phylogenetic analysis are consistent with the morphological comparisons. Although only one sample of Y. hangii was included in the phylogenetic analysis, Y. hangii and Y. rubida have obvious differences in morphology, so the morphological data and phylogenetic results altogether support our hypothesis of Y. hangii being a new species.
We are grateful to Dr. David E. Boufford for revising this manuscript. This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31960046 and 31670206), the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Yunnan joint fund to support key projects (U1802232), the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA20050203), National Key R & D Program of China (2017YFC0505200), Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31590820), Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019382), Yunnan Ten-thousand Talents Plan Young & Elite Talent Project (YNWR-QNBJ–2019–154), Young Academic and Technical Leader Raising Foundation of Yunnan Province (2019HB039) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences “Light of West China” Program.
Voucher information and GenBank accessions of species used in our study.
Species | Herbarium vouchers | GenBank accessions | |
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ITS | rps16 | ||
Askellia flexuosa | (1)L.Peng & L.J.Tong1078(CDBI)(2)X.F.Gao,Z.M.Zhu,X.L.Zhao14954(CDBI) | KC968078 (1) | KR733629 (2) |
Crepidiastrum akagii 1 = Youngia nansiensis 1 | (1)Y.L.Peng&L.J.Tong1151-1-3(CDBI)(2)Y. L.Peng & L.J.Tong1151(3)Y.L.Peng & L.J.Tong1131-3(CDBI) | KC968064 (1) | KC968154 (2) |
Crepidiastrum akagii 2 = Youngia nansiensis 2 | KC968064 (1) | KC968148 (3) | |
Crepidiastrum chelidoniifolium | (1)~~ | AB002627 (1) | – |
Crepidiastrum denticulatum 1 | (1)~(2)L.Pengpl2011052701 | AB002623 (1) | KC968107 (2) |
Crepidiastrum denticulatum 2 | AB002622 (1) | KC968107 (2) | |
Crepidiastrum diversifolium 1 | (1)L.Pengpl2011072605-6(CDBI)(2)L.Pengpl2011072804(3)L.Pengpl2011072605 | KC968072 (1) | KC968150 (2) |
Crepidiastrum diversifolium 2 | KC968072 (1) | KC968149 (3) | |
Crepidiastrum lanceolatum | ~ | AB002624 | AB598601 |
Crepidiastrum pinnatipartitum | (1)Y.L.Peng325-6(2)Y.L.Peng325 | KC968061 (1) | KC968151 (2) |
Crepidiastrum platyphyllum | (1)K2-CR 1267(2)~ | AY876264 (1) | AB598599 (2) |
Crepidiastrum sonchifolium 1 | (1)SCSB-JS0086(2)Lilan245 | MH808121 (1) | – |
Crepidiastrum sonchifolium 2 | MH808120 (2) | – | |
Crepidiastrum taiwanianum 1 | (1)~ | AB002615 (1) | – |
Crepidiastrum taiwanianum 2 | AB002614 (1) | – | |
Crepidiastrum tenuifolium | (1)~ | EU363645 (1) | – |
Scorzonera austriaca | (1)Y.L.Peng & L.J.Tong1123-3-1(CDBI)(2)Y.L.Peng & L.J.Tong1123-2(CDBI) | KC968059 (1) | KC968135 (2) |
Youngia cineripappa 1 |
(1)J.W. Zhang & W.D. Zhu ZZ09041 ( |
LT722046 (1) | KR733617 (2) |
Youngia cineripappa 2 | LT722046 (1) | KF732162 (3) | |
Youngia erythrocarpa 1 | ~ | AB598566 | KF732132 |
Youngia erythrocarpa 2 | AB598566 | KF732169 | |
Youngia gracilipes 1 | (1)X.F.Gao14517-9(2)L.Pengpl2011082607-2(3)X.F.Gao14517 | KC968076 (1) | KC968155 (2) |
Youngia gracilipes 2 | KC968076 (1) | KC968126 (3) | |
Youngia heterophylla 1 | (1)~(2)X.F.Gao,Y.L.Peng,B.Xu & X.Zheng11937-2(3)X.F.Gao,Y.L.Peng,B.Xu & X.Zheng11694 | AB598561 (1) | KC968123 (2) |
Youngia heterophylla 2 | AB598561 (1) | KC968122 (3) | |
Youngia humifusa 1 | (1)Y.L.Peng & L.J.Tong981-3-1(2)Y.L.Peng & L.J.Tong1012(3)X.F.Gao, Y.L.Peng, B.Xu & X.Zheng13147(CDBI)(4)Y.L.Peng & L.J.Tong981-1 | KC968034 (1) | KC968115 (3) |
Youngia humifusa 2 | KC968035 (2) | KC968113 (4) | |
Youngia japonica subsp. formosana | (1)~ | AB598559 (1) | – |
Youngia japonica subsp. japonica 1 |
(1)~(2)ZhangJW 388 ( |
AB598557 (1) | KC968153 (3) |
Youngia japonica subsp. japonica 2 | HQ436229 (2) | KC968118 (4) | |
Youngia longiflora | (1)~ | AB598558 | – |
Youngia paleacea 1 | (1)~(2)~(3)L.Peng pl2011082701(CDBI)(4)L.Peng pl082605-1(CDBI) | KJ502310 (1) | KR733620 (3) |
Youngia paleacea 2 | KJ502311 (2) | KR733616 (4) | |
Youngia rubida | (1)Y.L.Peng93-3(CDBI)(2)Y.L.Peng pl081201(CDBI) | KC968048 (1) | KR733627 (2) |
Youngia hangii |
(1)HHE 3256( |
MZ817057 | MZ923644 |
Youngia simulatrix | (1)~ | KJ502312 (1) | – |
Youngia szechuanica | (1)~ | KJ502313 (1) | – |
Youngia thunbergiana | (1)~ | KC539465 (1) | – |
Youngia zhengyiana | (1)~ | KJ502314 (1) | – |