identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
778D12C2594A504BA8650587D68A68F8.text	778D12C2594A504BA8650587D68A68F8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cinnamomum fasciculatum S. W. Deng & R. J. Wang 2026	<div><p>Cinnamomum fasciculatum S. W. Deng &amp; R. J. Wang sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 2, 3, 4</p><p>Type.</p><p>China • Guangdong Province: Taishan City, Mt. Beifengshan, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=112.933334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.266666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 112.933334/lat 22.266666)">road to Dingzishui Reservoir</a>, 22°16'N, 112°56'E, in evergreen broad-leaved forest, 225 m a. s. l., 9 July 2025 (fl.), Shuang-Wen Deng, Ya-Nan Guo &amp; Peng-Huan Wang 6326 (holotype IBSC 1098516; isotype IBSC 1098517) .</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Cinnamomum fasciculatum S. W. Deng &amp; R. J. Wang is morphologically similar to C. parthenoxylon (Jack) Meisn. and C. micranthum Hayata, but differs by its subterminal inflorescences arranged in the axils of cataphylls below the terminal vegetative bud or also on axillary brachyblasts (vs. axillary or lateral in C. parthenoxylon, terminal in C. micranthum), obovate to obelliptic leaves with an obtuse apex (vs. elliptic-ovate with acute apex in both), and smaller subglobose fruits (8–9 × 8–10 mm vs. ellipsoid fruits 1.5–2.2 cm long in C. micranthum). For a full morphological comparison, see Table 2.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Trees, evergreen, 7–11 m tall, DBH up to 50 cm; crown broadly ovate to globose. Trunk often low-branching; bark yellow-brown, longitudinally fissured. Branchlets terete, occasionally slightly angled, puberulent, glabrescent. Terminal buds ovoid to globose, 4–6 mm long, ca. 4 mm in diam.; bracts semicircular, apex rounded, abaxially densely covered with yellow-brown appressed pubescence, margin ciliate. Leaves alternate; petioles glabrous, channeled adaxially, 1.6–2.3 cm long; blade thinly leathery, obovate to obelliptic, rarely elliptic, (4 –) 5–8 (– 12) × 2.5–3.8 (– 4.5) cm, base cuneate, apex obtuse, rounded to subacute, pinnately veined, secondary veins 5–6 pairs, midrib and secondary veins flat adaxially and slightly elevated abaxially, transverse veins and veinlets reticulate, foveolate on both surfaces; adaxially green, abaxially glabrous and glaucous. Inflorescence branches pubescent. Inflorescences thyrsoid, several corymbiformly arranged in the axils of cataphylls below the terminal vegetative bud, and sometimes also on axillary brachyblasts, fasciculate-like, 4.5–6.5 cm long, 7–16 - flowered, ultimate cymes strictly opposite; bracts caducous; peduncles sparsely pilose, especially in lower part, rarely subglabrous; rachis subglabrous; pedicels slender, 5–6.8 mm long, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, white-yellow, ca. 5.5 mm in diam.; perianth tube obconical, short, ca. 1.5 mm long; perianth in two whorls, tepals 6, subequal, ovate-elliptic, 1.8–2 mm long, 1 mm wide, glabrous outside and pubescent inside, margin ciliate; fertile stamens 9, arranged in three whorls, 1 st and 2 nd whorls ca. 1.1–1.2 mm long, 3 rd whorl ca. 1.3 mm long; filaments slightly shorter than or subequal to anthers, 1 st and 2 nd whorls subglabrous, 3 rd whorl villous in the middle and lower part, each stamen of 3 rd whorl with two reniform glands at base; anthers yellow, 4 - locular, outer two whorls introrse, 3 rd whorl extrorse; staminodes 3, sagittate; pistil glabrous, ovary ovoid to ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm long, ca. 0.8 mm in diam., style glabrous, ca. 0.9 mm long, stigma capitate. Infructescences 2.8–4.5 cm long. Fruit black when mature, subglobose, ca. 8–9 mm long and 8–10 mm in diam., cupulate, cupules obconical, ca. 5 mm long, apex 5 mm in diam.; pedicels ca. 6.5 mm long; seeds ellipsoid to subglobose, ca. 11 mm long, 10 mm in diam., yellowish-brown.</p><p>Phenology.</p><p>Flowering from June to July; fruiting from August to November.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The specific epithet “ fasciculatum ” refers to the fasciculate-like arrangement of the thyrsoid inflorescences of the new species. The Chinese name of C. fasciculatum is proposed as “ 簇序樟 ” (Cù Xù Zhāng), a direct translation of the Latin name.</p><p>Distribution and habitat.</p><p>C. fasciculatum is currently known only from Xinhui District and Taishan County of Jiangmen City, in south-central Guangdong Province, China (Fig. 4). It grows in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests at an elevation of 190–300 m a. s. l.</p><p>Conservation status.</p><p>Only two populations of approximately 50 individuals were discovered in Jiangmen City. These two sites are located within the Gudoushan Provincial Nature Reserve. Since little is known about its actual population size and distribution, and further investigation is critically necessary, its conservation status is assessed as “ Data Deficient (DD) ” at present.</p><p>Additional specimens examined. China • Guangdong, Xinhui: Gudou Forest Farm, Mt. Wuzhishan, 220 m a. s. l., 28 Sept. 2024 (fr.), Shuang-Wen Deng, Si-Yuan Zeng &amp; Mei Lu DSW 4958 (IBSC) ; • Taishan: Mt. Gudoushan, Pingnan, 282 m a. s. l., 23 Oct. 2025 (fr.), Shuang-Wen Deng &amp; Mei Lu DSW 6891 (IBSC), DSW 6892 (IBSC) ; • Mt. Gudoushan, road to Dingzishui Reservoir, 224 m a. s. l. 23 Oct. 2025, Shuang-Wen Deng &amp; Mei Lu DSW 6893 – DSW 6896 (IBSC), DSW 6898 (IBSC) ; • same locality, 23 Oct. 2025 (fl.), Shuang-Wen Deng &amp; Mei Lu DSW 6897 (IBSC) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/778D12C2594A504BA8650587D68A68F8	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	Deng, Shuang-Wen;Huang, Guan-Yun;Zeng, Si-Yuan;Xu, Yuan;Wang, Rui-Jiang	Deng, Shuang-Wen, Huang, Guan-Yun, Zeng, Si-Yuan, Xu, Yuan, Wang, Rui-Jiang (2026): Cinnamomum fasciculatum (Lauraceae), a new species from Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 278: 105-116, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.278.199869
