taxonID	type	description	language	source
A639C1E239895B33A5BF87BBA5CFF23F.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Vietnam. Đa N ẵng: Hoa Ninh, Ba Na Hills, 1,360 m elevation, in forests on damp slopes near steam, 22 Nov 2019, Jin-hong Dai and Ying Liu 813 (holotype: PE; isotypes: A, SYS, VNMN).	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
E7E7312CFBA8538FA3E35BCFC7D507B7.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Vietnam. Qu ảng Nam Province: Đ ại L ộc, about 400 m south of Khu Du Lich Sinh Thai Khe Lim, along newly opened road, 574 m elevation, on rocks along a stream, 23 Nov 2019, Jin-hong Dai and Ying Liu 821 (holotype: PE; isotypes: A, SYS, VNMN).	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
42EB19637A5C5E1884F6B94DF1F679B9.taxon	description	Figs 6, 7	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
42EB19637A5C5E1884F6B94DF1F679B9.taxon	materials_examined	Type. China. Guangdong Province: Taishan County, Chixi Town, near Zhuxing Village, 200 - 300 m elevation, amongst rocks along a stream in forests, 15 Jun 2022, Chun-yu Zou 3608 (holotype: IBK; isotypes: IBK, PE).	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
42EB19637A5C5E1884F6B94DF1F679B9.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Resembles P. stenophylla in leaf morphology, but differs in height (to 0.15 m vs. 0.8 m tall), number of flowers per inflorescence (1 vs. 2 - 3 - flowered), length of the peduncle (10 - 22 mm vs. 4 mm) and the shape of calyx lobes (broadly obovate vs. narrowly triangular). Resembles P. setotheca in having 4 - sided branchlets, large and persistent bracts below flower and stamen morphology, but differs in plant size (to 0.15 m vs. 1 m tall), leaf shape and size (oblong-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 1.7 - 7 x 0.73 - 2.2 cm vs. oblong-lanceolate, elliptic or obovate, 10 - 20 x 3 - 8 cm) and number of flowers per inflorescence (1 - flowered vs. 3 to more than 20 - flowered).	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
42EB19637A5C5E1884F6B94DF1F679B9.taxon	description	Description. Dwarf shrubs, much-branched, ascending, to 0.15 m tall, with druses in many parts. Stems and leaves sparsely puberulent with minute brown hairs (with few-celled stalk and a glandular head) when young, glabrous when mature. Stems obtusely 4 - sided; branchlets 4 - sided, with four ribs and two additional ridges extending from the base of the leaf petioles. Leaves opposite, equal to subequal in a pair, glabrous when mature; petiole 2 - 22 mm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 1.7 - 7 x 0.73 - 2.2 cm, thick papery, 3 - veined, green to dark green adaxially, pale green abaxially, base cuneate, apex acute, margin basally entire and remotely denticulate to repand above the base or the middle. Inflorescences terminal, peduncles 1 - 2.2 cm long; flower solitary, subtended by one or two pairs of leaf-like bracts, bracts 1 - 1.8 x 0.7 - 0.9 cm, persistent in fruit. Flowers 4 - merous; pedicel 4 - sided, ca. 4 mm long in flower and 4 - 10 mm in fruit; hypanthia funnel-shaped, glabrous, ca. 7 x 6 mm; calyx lobes 4, broadly obovate, glabrous, 4 - 5 x 5 mm; petals pinkish-purple, ca. 15 x 7 mm, obovate, oblique, apex acute or short acuminate, glabrous on both sides; stamens 8, isomorphic, filaments 8 - 10 mm long, white or pink, glabrous, anthers ovate-lanceolate, curved to ventral side, pinkish-purple with yellow base, ca. 9 mm long, connective dorsally forming a 0.7 - 1 mm long spur and ventrally forming two yellow ridges; ovary ca. 3 mm long, half as long as hypanthium (crown excluded), ovary crown wedge-like, 4 - lobed; styles 20 mm long. Old (post-mature) capsules cup-shaped, 7 - 9 x 4 - 7 mm, 4 - sided; hypanthium 8 - ribbed; crown enlarged and enclosing an obpyramidal space; placental column unbeaked, 4 - horned; placenta thready.	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
42EB19637A5C5E1884F6B94DF1F679B9.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet is based on the habit of this species, viz. dwarf shrubs to 15 cm tall.	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
42EB19637A5C5E1884F6B94DF1F679B9.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Perilimnastes nana is currently known from Taishan County, Guangdong Province, China (Fig. 8). It grows amongst rocks along streams in the forest, at 200 - 300 m elevation.	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
26605EC37E8650CBA0DB9ABF1C742866.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Perilimnastes fruticosa (Ridl.) Ridl., J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 79: 70, in obs. 1918; Ridley, Fl. Mal. Penins. 1: 773. 1922.	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
26605EC37E8650CBA0DB9ABF1C742866.taxon	description	Description. Erect shrubs, erect / ascending shrublets or caulescent herbs, sometimes with raphides in many parts. Stems terete, obtusely 4 - sided or ribbed, with uniseriate or multiseriate, appressed or spreading hairs, rarely glabrous. Leaves opposite, equal, subequal or unequal in a pair, petiolate, rarely sessile (in P. sessilifolia); leaf blades elliptic, ovate, elliptic-lanceolate, obovate, oblanceolate or suborbicular, submembranous, papery or stiffly papery, 3 - 7 - nerved, base cuneate, acute, rounded, subcordate to broadly cordate, margin entire or inconspicuously serrulate or denticulate. Inflorescences usually terminal (rarely axillary) umbels subtended by two or more bracts, many- to few-flowered, sometimes reduced to a single flower. Flowers 4 - merous; hypanthia + / - campanulate, cup-shaped or funnel-shaped; calyx lobes triangular, + / - attenuate to ligulate or linear; petals white, pink or purplish, obovate, ovate, oblong, or elliptic, more or less oblique, apex acute or acuminate; stamens 8, equal or subequal; anthers isomorphic, yellow, pinkish or purplish, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, curved to ventral side, connectives ventrally inappendiculate and dorsally spurred, or basally forming a collar with two ventral auricles / lobes / ridges and a dorsal spur; ovary half inferior, ovoid, 4 - celled, crown of four partly or fully connate lobes; style filiform. Old capsule cup-shaped, campanulate, quadrangular, crown persistent and enlarged, enclosing an obpyramidal space; placental column 4 - horned; placentas thready. Seeds numerous, minute, cuneate. (Figs 2 - 4)	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
26605EC37E8650CBA0DB9ABF1C742866.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Twenty species and two varieties, eight species (seven endemic) and two varieties in southernmost China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan), eight (seven endemic) in Vietnam, one on the Malay Peninsula and four in Borneo (Fig. 5).	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
91A48B1B796A5EFA905F65DF87B42CE8.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Malaysia. Sarawak: Mt Dulit, Ulu Koyan, alt. 800 m, 16 Sept 1932, S. Synge 503 (holotype: K! [K 000867704]).	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
FDBA2C748C5C54DB9A37313A1AC9A329.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Vietnam. Lam Đ ồng Province: Đa L ạt, Bidoup Nui Ba National Park, 1,500 - 1,700 m elevation, at damp places under forest, 29 Nov 2019, Jin-hong Dai and Ying Liu 836 (holotype: PE; isotypes: A, SYS, VNMN).	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
2F0D004AE35F50C389E86267405A72BD.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Vietnam. Đa N ẵng: Hoa Ninh, Ba Na Hills, 1,360 m elevation, in forests on damp rocks along steam, 22 Nov 2019, Jin-hong Dai and Ying Liu 814 (holotype: PE; isotypes: A, SYS, VNMN).	en	Liu, Ying, Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhuang, Qi-Yuan, Zou, Chun-Yu, Ma, Kai-Nan (2024): Resurrection of Perilimnastes (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae) with description of a new species P. nana. PhytoKeys 238: 11-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.238.116168
