taxonID	type	description	language	source
E863C4D9C3395A29BD73AAEB71A75FB8.taxon	description	Figs 2, 3, 4	en	Lin, Wei-Lan, Zhang, Zi-Yi, Deng, Chao-Yi, Xu, Wen-Bin, Liu, Bing (2026): Taxonomic notes on Neocinnamomum (Lauraceae): a new combination and a new species from southwestern China. PhytoKeys 269: 209-220, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.177163
E863C4D9C3395A29BD73AAEB71A75FB8.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This new species is close to N. lecomtei but differs from sparsely white sericeous leaf blade on abaxial surface when young and glabrous when mature (vs. densely rusty pubescent on both surfaces when young and abaxially when mature) and oblate to globose fruits (vs. ellipsoid fruits), as well as its strong lemon fragrance of branches, leaves, and bark (vs. faint fragrance in the latter species).	en	Lin, Wei-Lan, Zhang, Zi-Yi, Deng, Chao-Yi, Xu, Wen-Bin, Liu, Bing (2026): Taxonomic notes on Neocinnamomum (Lauraceae): a new combination and a new species from southwestern China. PhytoKeys 269: 209-220, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.177163
E863C4D9C3395A29BD73AAEB71A75FB8.taxon	description	Description. Trees, 4.5 – 20 m tall. Bark yellowish brown, old bark gray. Branchlets terete, rusty, or white pubescent initially but soon glabrous. Leaves alternate. Petiole 0.6 – 1.4 cm long, rusty, or white tomentose when young. Leaf blade papyraceous, narrowly ovate to ovate, 3.5 – 13 × 1.5 – 5.3 cm, apex acuminate, base acuminate to obtuse; sparsely white sericeous on abaxial surface when young and glabrous on both surfaces when mature, abaxially white farinose, trinerved, secondary lateral veins inconspicuous, veinlets densely reticulate. Inflorescences cymules, axillary, rarely terminal, with 2 to more than ten flowers, peduncle 0.2 – 4 mm long, pedicels 0.5 – 1.0 cm long, peduncle and pedicels rusty pubescent. Bracts subulate, 1.5 mm long, densely rusty puberulent. Flowers bisexual, yellowish green, ca. 4 mm in diam. Perianth lobes 6, subequal, triangular-ovate, ca. 1.2 – 1.5 mm long, densely rusty puberulent outside and inside. Fertile stamens 9, ca. 1 mm long, rusty puberulent; filaments as long as anthers, those of 3 rd whorl each with 2 glands, others glandless; those of 1 st and 2 nd whorls each with 2 introrse cells and 2 lateral cells, 4 oval cells arranged in an almost transverse series; those of 3 rd whorl each with 2 extrorse cells and 2 lateral cells. Staminodes ovoid, ca. 0.4 mm long, nearly estipitate. Ovary ellipsoid-ovoid, ca. 0.8 mm long. Style short, stigma discoid. Fruit oblate to globose, 1.5 – 2 × 1.5 – 3 cm, red when mature. Perianth cup in fruit crateriform, 0.6 – 1 cm wide on top; perianth lobes in fruit persistent.	en	Lin, Wei-Lan, Zhang, Zi-Yi, Deng, Chao-Yi, Xu, Wen-Bin, Liu, Bing (2026): Taxonomic notes on Neocinnamomum (Lauraceae): a new combination and a new species from southwestern China. PhytoKeys 269: 209-220, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.177163
E863C4D9C3395A29BD73AAEB71A75FB8.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Southwestern China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan) (Fig. 5, blue triangles).	en	Lin, Wei-Lan, Zhang, Zi-Yi, Deng, Chao-Yi, Xu, Wen-Bin, Liu, Bing (2026): Taxonomic notes on Neocinnamomum (Lauraceae): a new combination and a new species from southwestern China. PhytoKeys 269: 209-220, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.177163
E863C4D9C3395A29BD73AAEB71A75FB8.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet “ citratum ” refers to the strong lemon fragrance of the branches, leaves, and bark of this species.	en	Lin, Wei-Lan, Zhang, Zi-Yi, Deng, Chao-Yi, Xu, Wen-Bin, Liu, Bing (2026): Taxonomic notes on Neocinnamomum (Lauraceae): a new combination and a new species from southwestern China. PhytoKeys 269: 209-220, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.177163
A8F987F76AC156C5B12455E8CE02F27F.taxon	description	Fig. 1	en	Lin, Wei-Lan, Zhang, Zi-Yi, Deng, Chao-Yi, Xu, Wen-Bin, Liu, Bing (2026): Taxonomic notes on Neocinnamomum (Lauraceae): a new combination and a new species from southwestern China. PhytoKeys 269: 209-220, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.177163
