taxonID	type	description	language	source
8D91C8DC9D08572F9539ED2FD52BCD79.taxon	description	Figs 3, 4	en	Fu, Chen-Long, Zhou, Jia-Ning, Liao, Wei-Hua, Zhang, Tong, Xu, Bo, Li, Meng (2025): Balanophora xinfeniae (Balanophoraceae), a new species from Xizang, China. PhytoKeys 266: 241-252, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.147400
8D91C8DC9D08572F9539ED2FD52BCD79.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Balanophora xinfeniae is morphologically similar to B. henryi, but the two species can be distinguished by several features. The tuber branching shape of B. xinfeniae is characterized as flat spheroid or subglobose, whereas that of B. henryi is irregularly spherical or oblate. The scapes of B. xinfeniae are yellow, in contrast to the red or red-to-yellow scapes of B. henryi. In B. xinfeniae, the apical margins of the leaves are prominently serrate, whereas those of B. henryi are entire. The female inflorescence of B. xinfeniae is nearly spherical or ovoid-ellipsoid, while that of B. henryi is broadly ovoid. The flowering period of B. xinfeniae is from April to May, compared to September to November for B. henryi (Table 2; Fig. 2).	en	Fu, Chen-Long, Zhou, Jia-Ning, Liao, Wei-Hua, Zhang, Tong, Xu, Bo, Li, Meng (2025): Balanophora xinfeniae (Balanophoraceae), a new species from Xizang, China. PhytoKeys 266: 241-252, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.147400
8D91C8DC9D08572F9539ED2FD52BCD79.taxon	description	Description. Plants dioecious. Tuber yellowish brown, branched or unbranched, surface scabrous, densely covered with granular warts; tuber branches flat spheroid or subglobose, 0.8 – 2.0 cm in diam. Scapes yellow, 2 – 12 × 0.5 – 1.2 cm. Leaves 6 – 10, yellow to reddish, opposite, scaly, oblong-ovate, apical margins prominently and irregularly serrate, with serrations arranged approximately parallel to the leaf margin, 1.2 – 3.5 × 0.3 – 1.8 cm. Male inflorescences subspheroid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.8 – 2.5 × 1.5 – 2.0 cm. Bracts truncate with expanded liplike margin, fused side by side into a hexagonal alveolus. Male flowers: pedicellate, inserted basally in alveolus, 3 - merous, 2 – 4 mm in diam. Perianth lobes broadly deltoid. Synandria subdiscoid; anthers 3, transversely dehiscent. Female inflorescence nearly spherical or ovoid-ellipsoid. Claviform bodies obovoid, shortly stiped, apically truncate; cuticular ridges of apical cells labyrinth-like. Female flowers: both in the lower parts of the claviform bodies and on the main axis of the inflorescence.	en	Fu, Chen-Long, Zhou, Jia-Ning, Liao, Wei-Hua, Zhang, Tong, Xu, Bo, Li, Meng (2025): Balanophora xinfeniae (Balanophoraceae), a new species from Xizang, China. PhytoKeys 266: 241-252, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.147400
8D91C8DC9D08572F9539ED2FD52BCD79.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. The new species is currently known only from the type locality in Gelin Village, Motuo County, Xizang Autonomous Region (Fig. 5). It grows in shaded forest habitats on moist mountain slopes. The hosts are usually species of Fagaceae, such as Quercus lamellosa and Castanopsis indica.	en	Fu, Chen-Long, Zhou, Jia-Ning, Liao, Wei-Hua, Zhang, Tong, Xu, Bo, Li, Meng (2025): Balanophora xinfeniae (Balanophoraceae), a new species from Xizang, China. PhytoKeys 266: 241-252, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.147400
