identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
17559297DB245033AD24BECB84CAA617.text	17559297DB245033AD24BECB84CAA617.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Euonymus maotaiensis M. T. An & Xu Wu 2026	<div><p>Euonymus maotaiensis M. T. An &amp; Xu Wu sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 2, 3, 4</p><p>Type.</p><p>China. • Guizhou Province: Renhuai City, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=106.21667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.716667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 106.21667/lat 27.716667)">Maotai</a>, 27°43'N, 106°13'E, alt. 500 m, 26 October 2024, Ming-tai An, Feng Liu, Xu Wu, Jiang-hong Yu, GZAC-WX- 2594 (holotype: GZAC!) .</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>E. maotaiensis is morphologically similar to E. chloranthoides but can be distinguished by several key characteristics (Table 1): its broadly lanceolate leaves (as opposed to elliptic to oblong – elliptic), longer petioles (5–12 mm vs. 1–2 mm), longer peduncles (4–9 cm vs. 1–2 cm), 4 - or 5 - merous flowers (vs. strictly 4 - merous), suborbicular petals with the upper half completely recurved abaxially (vs. planar petals), and indehiscent, 4–5 shallowly sulcate globose capsules (vs. 5 - lobed capsules dehiscent to near the midpoint).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Evergreen shrubs, 1.5–4 m tall, glabrous throughout. Trunk and branches with conspicuous longitudinal lenticels; branchlets slightly 4 - angled, green; Leaves opposite, rigidly coriaceous, extremely brittle when dry, usually broadly lanceolate, rarely lanceolate or elliptic, 6–12 × 2–6 cm, apex acuminate, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin irregularly sharp serrate; venation conspicuous on both surfaces, midvein raised abaxially, flush to slightly raised adaxially, lateral veins 6–9 pairs, impressed adaxially, prominent abaxially, anastomosing near the margin, reticulate with tertiary veinlets; petiole 0.5–1.2 cm long. Inflorescences mostly cymes with 2–3 flowers, rarely compound thyrses to&gt; 10 flowers, extra-axillary or occasionally axillary; Peduncle elongate, 4–9 cm long; Flowers usually 5 - merous, rarely 4 - merous, purple-black, ca. 1 cm in diam; Pedicel usually purple-black (occasionally green), 0.5–0.9 cm long; Bracts usually longer than bracteoles, both linear, 0.4–1.1 cm long; Sepals suborbicular, purple-black or green, ca. half as long as petals, margin membranous; Petals suborbicular, purple-black, the upper half of the petal is completely reflexed and obscured from view, margin white-membranous and undulate, irregularly undulate; Staminal filaments Ca. 1 mm long; Pistil styles absent, stigma shortly columnar, disk flat, 4 - 5 - lobed. ovules erect to pendulous, 2 per locule. Capsule globose, red, 1–2 cm in diam, indehiscent with only 4–5 shallowly sulcate, usually 1 developed per inflorescence; fruiting pedicel slender, green; Seeds 4–5, bright orange-red in vivo.</p><p>Distribution and habitat.</p><p>This species is distributed in Maotai Town and Maoba Town, Renhuai City, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province (Fig. 1), at an elevation of ca. 500 m. It may be distributed in Sichuan Province and Chongqing City from the PPBC picture. It grows in well-lit broad-leaved forests along river valleys.</p><p>Phenology.</p><p>Flowering May – June; fruiting October – December.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>“ maotaiensis ” refers to the discovery site of this species.</p><p>Local name.</p><p>Simplified Chinese: 茅台卫矛.</p><p>Conservation status.</p><p>We investigated potential habitats in the surrounding area and identified two populations totaling approximately 42 individuals. Euonymus maotaiensis primarily grows along forest edges, particularly on roadside margins, but was not observed in denser understory areas. In addition, a review of specimens and image databases from regions with similar habitats and elevations revealed that photographs taken by Li Xiaodong in Wuhan City, Hubei Province (PPBC id: 22545059–22545070) and those taken by Zhang Hua’an in Xuyong County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province (PPBC id: 12794935, 12794949) represent E. maotaiensis . However, because a comprehensive investigation of the population status of E. maotaiensis has not yet been conducted, we recommend provisionally classifying it as Data Deficient (DD) according to IUCN criteria (IUCN 2022).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/17559297DB245033AD24BECB84CAA617	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wu, Xu;Liu, Feng;An, Ming-Tai;Yu, Jiang-Hong;Yang, Wan-Ying	Wu, Xu, Liu, Feng, An, Ming-Tai, Yu, Jiang-Hong, Yang, Wan-Ying (2026): Euonymus maotaiensis M. T. An & Xu Wu, sp. nov., a new species of Euonymus (Celastraceae) from southwest China. PhytoKeys 270: 143-153, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.270.171340
