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Asplenium cornutissimum (Aspleniaceae), a new species from karst caves in Guangxi, China

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Asplenium cornutissimum, a new species from Guangxi, southern China, is described, illustrated, and compared to three similar species: A. pulcherrimum, A. coenobiale, and A. tenuifolium. So far, the new species is known only from the limestone region in southern Guangxi, from 750–825 m. It grows exclusively in karst caves.

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The authors are grateful to Prof. Fa-Nan Wei and Mr. Wei-Bin Xu for their help in preparing the paper, to Yun-Xi Zhu for the handsome drawing, and Mr. Shi-Nian Lu, Yu-Song Huang, Wang-Hui Wu Dong-Xin Nong and Lei Wu for field assistance. This study was supported by Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-Z-0912) to Yan Liu, Fundamental Research Fund of Guangxi Institute of Botany (GZY 09004) to Wei-Bin Xu, and Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 30470139, and 30770166), and Classical Taxonomy project (N0. 91136G1001) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to Xian-Chun Zhang.

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  1. Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 541006, Guilin, China

    Ri-Hong Jiang & Yan Liu

  2. College of Life Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, 541004, Guilin, China

    Ri-Hong Jiang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093, Beijing, China

    Xian-Chun Zhang

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Jiang, RH., Zhang, XC. & Liu, Y. Asplenium cornutissimum (Aspleniaceae), a new species from karst caves in Guangxi, China. Brittonia 63, 83–86 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-010-9139-z

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