taxonID	type	description	language	source
A81159164F955BF4B1BEE370EA4D5F2B.taxon	description	Figs 2, 15 A	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
A81159164F955BF4B1BEE370EA4D5F2B.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs 20 – 50 cm tall, branched. Stems erect, branched, terete, obtusely 4 - sided, densely pubescent with 0.3 – 1 mm long multiseriate glandular hairs and puberulent with minute uniseriate (spreading or bent) hairs, rarely without multiseriate hairs. Leaves opposite, equal or unequal; petiole 1 – 8 cm long, pubescent and puberulent as the stem; leaf blade ovate, ovate-elliptic, or oblong-ovate, 2 – 14 × 1.5 – 8.2 cm, thin to thick papery, secondary veins 3 on each side of midvein, abaxial surface pale green to purplish, adaxial surface green to dark green, both surfaces puberulent with uniseriate hairs and sparsely strigose with multiseriate hairs or abaxially glabrescent and adaxially sparsely strigose, base cordate, margin serrulate or inconspicuously so with each tooth having a terminal seta, apex acuminate or short acuminate, rarely acute. Inflorescence a terminal cyme, rarely a cymose panicle; peduncle 1 – 3.5 cm long, indumentum same as the stem, 2 – 12 - flowered. Flowers bisexual, radial but androecium slightly bilateral, 4 - merous; pedicel 0.7 – 2 cm long, indumentum same as the stem; hypanthium bell- or funnel-shaped, 4 – 6 mm long, pubescent with glandular hairs, rarely only puberulent; calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, 3 – 5 mm long, pubescent with glandular hairs, rarely only puberulent; petals pink to purplish-red, ovate, 6 – 10 × ca. 6 mm, oblique, abaxially puberulent with minute uniseriate hairs or glabrescent, apex acute; stamens 8 in two whorls, often dimorphic, sometimes isomorphic, the outer whorl of the dimorphic stamens ca. 1.8 cm long, filaments ca. 10 mm long, anthers linear, ca. 7 mm long, curved, connective decurrent, slightly prolonged, the inner whorl of the dimorphic stamens or the isomorphic ca. 1.1 cm long, filaments ca. 6 mm, anthers lanceolate, slightly curved, ca. 5 mm long, forming two ventral lobes and a dorsal tubercule / short spur; ovary half inferior, locules 4, apex with a membranous crown, crown margin denticulate and ciliate with glandular hairs; style ca. 8 – 12 mm long, basally puberulent. Capsule ca. 6 – 9 × 5 – 7 mm, funnel-shaped, with enlarged apical crown; placentation axial, placentas non-thready. Seeds numerous, cuneate.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
1929F6AA37DB5FBAAC9517740A5D419D.taxon	description	Figs 3, 15 B	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
1929F6AA37DB5FBAAC9517740A5D419D.taxon	description	Description. Herbs or shrubs, 20 – 40 cm tall. Stems prostrate in lower parts and ascending in the upper parts, terete, sparsely villous with spreading multiseriate hairs and puberulent with bent uniseriate hairs when young, sometimes glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 2 – 8 cm long, indumentum same as branchlets; leaf blade ovate to oblong ovate, 3.5 – 9 × 1.5 – 6 cm, submembranous, secondary veins 2 on each side of midvein, adaxial surface green to purplish dark green, abaxial surface pale green to purplish-red, with bent uniseriate hairs and sparse multiseriate setas when young on both sides, with minute yellowish glandular hairs on the abaxial surface, base subcordate to obtuse, margin inconspicuously denticulate with each tooth having a terminal seta, apex acute or short acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, umbellate, rarely cymose paniculate, 3 – 11 - flowered; peduncle 1.5 – 5 cm long. Flowers bisexual, radial but androecium slightly bilateral, 4 - merous; pedicel 1 – 2 cm long; hypanthium yellowish-green, funnel-shaped, ca. 5 mm long, villous with multiseriate hairs with inflate bases or only puberulent; calyx lobes 4, broadly ovate to semiorbicular; petals 4, pink to purplish, ovate, ca. 6 × 7 mm, petal margin undulate, apex oblique; stamens 8 in two whorls, isomorphic, equal in length, filaments ca. 5 mm long, bent with the anthers to one side of the flower, anthers lanceolate, slightly curved, ca. 7 mm long, white, connectives forming 2 ventral lobes and a dorsal short spur, white or light purple; ovary ca. 3 mm long (crown excluded), half inferior, locules 4, apex with membranous crown, crown margin denticulate; style ca. 1 cm long, basally puberulous. Capsule funnel-shaped, with enlarged apical crown; placentation axial, placentas non-thready. Seeds numerous, cuneate.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
1929F6AA37DB5FBAAC9517740A5D419D.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Bredia esquirolii is known from Guangxi, southern Guizhou, Hunan, Chongqing, and Hubei, China, growing in karst or non-karst habitats in forest or along forest margin at 250 – 1,200 m.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
EF5B44FFC3A7581FB99700AEA15CBA5B.taxon	description	Figs 4, 5, 15 B	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
EF5B44FFC3A7581FB99700AEA15CBA5B.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Bredia esquirolii var. rubra differs from B. esquirolii var. esquirolii in having dense reddish multiseriate hairs on the stems, leaves, and inflorescences.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
EF5B44FFC3A7581FB99700AEA15CBA5B.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the reddish hairs on many parts of the plant.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
EF5B44FFC3A7581FB99700AEA15CBA5B.taxon	distribution	Distribution. This variety is currently only known from Libo, Guizhou, China, growing in moist places under forests.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
A15DC9899D7C5400A911C4F06606CACB.taxon	description	Figs 6, 15 C	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
5DE55352D48B5AE1993DB33CE221C5CC.taxon	description	Fig. 7	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
4F4832943F89595D831A9B5434EF3BE2.taxon	description	Figs 8, 9, 15 C	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
4F4832943F89595D831A9B5434EF3BE2.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Most closely resembles B. micrantha in the dense, spreading, uniseriate hairs on the stems, bending young inflorescence, and isomorphic stamens, but differs in posture (multi-branched vs. few branched), smaller (1.5 – 7 × 0.7 – 3.8 cm vs. 3.5 – 13 × 1.7 – 6.3 cm), thick papery (vs. submembranous to thin papery), elliptic to narrowly elliptic leaf blade (vs. more or less ovate) with obtuse or rounded base (vs. cordate), and acute apex (vs. acuminate), and purple anthers and yellow connectives at anther base (vs. both cream).	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
4F4832943F89595D831A9B5434EF3BE2.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs to 20 cm tall. Stems prostrate in lower parts and ascending / erect in upper parts, many-branched, terete; branchlets densely pubescent with 0.5 mm long, spreading, uniseriate hairs and multiseriate glandular hairs. Leaves opposite, equal to unequal; petiole 0.4 – 2.2 cm long, densely pubescent as branchlets; leaf blade elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or narrowly elliptic, 1.5 – 7 × 0.7 – 3.8 cm, thick papery, secondary veins 3 on each side of midvein, adaxial surface green to purplish dark green, puberulent with bent uniseriate hairs and ca. 0.2 mm long multiseriate setas, abaxial surface purplish-red, pubescent as branchlets, densely so along veins, base rounded, rarely truncate, margin ciliate and inconspicuously serrulate with each tooth having a terminal seta, apex acute. Inflorescence a terminal cyme, bending downwards when young, 1 – 3 - flowered; peduncle 0.5 – 1.5 cm long, densely pubescent as branchlets. Flowers bisexual, radial but androecium slightly bilateral, 4 - merous, pedicle, hypanthium and calyx lobes densely pubescent with 0.3 – 1 mm long hairs; pedicel 0.5 – 1.2 cm long; hypanthium yellowish-green, funnel-shaped, 5 – 6 × 3 – 4 mm; calyx lobes 4, narrowly triangular, 2 – 3 × 0.5 mm; petals 4, purplish-red, ovate, ca. 9 × 7 mm, puberulent with uniseriate hairs at the margin and along midvein on the abaxial surface, apex oblique, short acuminate; stamens 8 in two whorls, isomorphic, equal in length, filaments ca. 7 mm long, bent with the anthers to one side of the flower, anthers lanceolate, slightly curved, ca. 6 mm long, purplish-pink, connective forming 2 yellowish cream ventral lobes and a dorsal short spur of the same color; ovary ca. 4 mm long, 2 / 3 as long as the hypanthium (crown excluded), half inferior, locules 4, apex with membranous crown, crown margin ciliate with red glandular hairs; style ca. 1.4 cm long, basally puberulous. Capsule ca. 7 × 6 mm, funnel-shaped, with enlarged apical crown; placentation axial, placentas non-thready. Seeds numerous, cuneate.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
4F4832943F89595D831A9B5434EF3BE2.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the type locality of the new species, Jiu-wan-shan Nature Reserve.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
4F4832943F89595D831A9B5434EF3BE2.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Bredia jiuwanshanensis is only known from Jiu-wan-shan Nature Reserve in Rongshui County, northern Guangxi, China, occupying moist soil slopes in forests or along forest margin.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
48F49EC58B3B55D59072AAF97A56FFD8.taxon	description	Figs 10, 11, 15 B	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
48F49EC58B3B55D59072AAF97A56FFD8.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Most closely resembles B. esquirolii in habitat preference, leaf shape, umbellate inflorescence, villous hypanthium, broadly ovate to semiorbicular calyx lobes, and isomorphic stamens, but is readily distinguished by larger plant size (30 – 100 cm vs. 20 – 40 cm tall), larger leaves (7 – 23 × 5.5 – 13 cm vs. 3.5 – 9 × 1.5 – 6 cm), the lack of yellow glandular hairs on the abaxial leaf surface, geniculate anthers (vs. slightly curved), and yellow connectives (vs. white to light purple).	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
48F49EC58B3B55D59072AAF97A56FFD8.taxon	description	Description. Herbs or shrubs, 30 – 100 cm tall. Stems erect, sometimes prostrate in lower parts, terete or 4 - sided; branchlets near succulent, sparsely villous with multiseriate hairs or glabrescent, sparsely puberulent with bent uniseriate hairs. Leaves opposite; petiole 3 – 12 cm long, indumentum same as branchlets; leaf blade broadly ovate to subelliptic, 7 – 23 × 5.5 – 13 cm, submembranous to papery, secondary veins 3 on each side of midvein, adaxial surface green to purplish dark green, abaxial surface pale green to purplish-red, with bent uniseriate hairs and sparse multiseriate setas when young on both sides, base cordate to obtuse, margin denticulate to subentire and ciliate, apex short acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, umbellate, rarely cymose paniculate, 3 – 20 - flowered; peduncle 2 – 5 cm long. Flowers bisexual, radial but androecium slightly bilateral, 4 - merous; pedicel 0.5 – 1.2 cm long; hypanthium yellowish-green, funnel-shaped, ca. 1 cm long, villous with multiseriate hairs with inflate bases; calyx lobes 4, broadly ovate to semiorbicular; petals 4, purplish-red, ovate, ca. 7 × 9 mm, petal margin undulate, apex oblique; stamens 8 in two whorls, isomorphic, equal in length, filaments ca. 7 mm long, bent with the anthers to one side of the flower, anthers lanceolate, geniculate, ca. 10 mm long, purplish-pink, connective forming 2 yellow ventral lobes and a dorsal short spur of the same color; ovary ca. 5 mm long (crown excluded), half inferior, locules 4, apex with membranous crown, crown margin denticulate; style ca. 1.5 cm long, basally puberulous. Capsule funnel-shaped, with enlarged apical crown; placentation axial, placentas non-thready. Seeds numerous, cuneate.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
48F49EC58B3B55D59072AAF97A56FFD8.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the large leaves of the species.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
48F49EC58B3B55D59072AAF97A56FFD8.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Bredia macrophylla is known from limestone areas in southwestern Guangxi and southeastern Yunnan, China, occupying moist habitats in forest or at forest margin at 180 – 1,200 m.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
0339FB10412C5684A8318DA22982C863.taxon	description	Figs 12, 15 C	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
0339FB10412C5684A8318DA22982C863.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Similar to B. fordii and B. esquirolii in posture and leaf shape, but differs in the stems sparsely pubescent with 1.5 – 2 mm long, spreading, multiseriate hairs (vs. the former with dense, 2 – 4 mm long hairs, and the latter with 0.3 – 1 mm long hairs), young inflorescence bending downwards (vs. erect), slightly curved anthers (vs. geniculate), and cream connectives (vs. yellow at least in the inner stamens). Resembles B. jiuwanshanensis in the stems with dense, spreading, 0.3 mm long uniseriate hairs, bending young inflorescence, and isomorphic stamens, but differs markedly in posture (few branched vs. multi-branched), larger (3.5 – 13 × 1.7 – 6.3 cm vs. 1.5 – 7 × 0.7 – 3.8 cm), submembranous to thin papery (vs. thick papery), more or less ovate leaf blade (vs. elliptic to narrowly elliptic) with cordate base (vs. obtuse or rounded), and acuminate apex (vs. acute), and anthers and connectives of cream color (vs. purple anthers and yellow connectives at anther base).	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
0339FB10412C5684A8318DA22982C863.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs, to 60 cm tall. Stems erect or ascending, few-branched, terete; branchlets densely pubescent with 0.3 mm long uniseriate hairs and sparsely pubescent with 1.5 – 2 mm long, spreading, multiseriate hairs. Leaves opposite, equal or unequal; petiole 1.8 – 6 cm long, densely pubescent with spreading, multiseriate and uniseriate hairs; leaf blade ovate-cordate to ovate-lanceolate, rarely obovate, 3.5 – 13 × 1.7 – 6.3 cm, submembranous to thin papery, secondary veins 3 on each side of midvein, adaxial surface green, pubescent with bent uniseriate hairs, denser along the veins, abaxial surface pale green or ± purplish, pubescent with spreading, uniseriate and multiseriate hairs, base shallowly cordate, margin ciliate and inconspicuously serrulate with each tooth having a terminal seta, apex acuminate, rarely acute. Inflorescence bending downwards when young, 2 – 10 - flowered; peduncle 1.3 – 3.3 cm long, densely pubescent. Flowers bisexual, radial but androecium slightly bilateral, 4 - merous, pedicles, hypanthium and calyx lobes densely pubescent with 0.5 – 1 mm long hairs; pedicel 0.8 – 1.5 cm long; hypanthium yellowish-green, funnel-shaped, 5 × 3 – 4 mm; calyx lobes 4, linear, 4 – 5 × 0.5 mm; petals 4, purplish-red, ovate, ca. 8 × 7 mm, puberulent on the abaxial surface with uniseriate hairs, apex oblique; stamens 8 in two whorls, isomorphic, subequal in length with the outer whorl slightly longer than the inner one, filaments ca. 6 – 7 mm long, bent with the anthers to one side of the flower, anthers lanceolate, slightly curved, 6 – 7 mm long, cream, connective forming 2 ventral lobes and a dorsal tubercle of the same color; ovary ca. 4 mm long, 2 / 3 as long as the hypanthium (crown excluded), half inferior, locules 4, apex with membranous crown, crown margin ciliate with dark red glandular hairs; style ca. 1.3 cm long, basally puberulent. Capsule ca. 6 × 5 mm, funnel-shaped, with enlarged apical crown; placentation axial, placentas non-thready. Seeds numerous, cuneate.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
0339FB10412C5684A8318DA22982C863.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Bredia micrantha is currently only known from Dushan County, Guizhou, China, occurring among rocks near stream or on moist rock in forests.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
35F50B873B2752CFA7542F38CD4666C5.taxon	description	Figs 13, 14, 15 D	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
35F50B873B2752CFA7542F38CD4666C5.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Somewhat resembles B. cordata in ovate leaf blade of similar size, glandular pubescent hypanthium, and ovate-triangular calyx lobes, but differs in the stems and leaves inconspicuously puberulent with bent uniseriate hairs (vs. usually with dense spreading hairs), leaves usually unequal (vs. equal to subequal), leaf base very shallowly cordate or rounded (vs. cordate), white (vs. pink) petals with the abaxial surface reddish glandular pubescent along the midvein (vs. glabrous to inconspicuously puberulent, colorless), deep purple anthers (vs. white to light purple), and purplish-red connectives (vs. yellow in the inner stamens).	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
35F50B873B2752CFA7542F38CD4666C5.taxon	description	Description. Shrublets to 35 cm tall. Stems erect or ascending, few-branched, terete; branchlets with bending uniseriate hairs and very sparse ca. 0.3 mm long multiseriate setas. Leaves opposite, often unequal; petiole 0.8 – 8.2 cm long, indumentum same as branchlets but with denser seta; leaf blade ovate or ovate-elliptic, larger ones 4.5 – 12.3 × 2.8 – 7.5 cm, smaller ones 2.2 – 7 × 1.2 – 5 cm, membranous, secondary veins 2 or 3 on each side of midvein, adaxial surface green, with bent uniseriate hairs and very sparse seta, abaxial surface pale green, pubescent with bent uniseriate hairs, densely so along veins, base shallowly cordate to rounded, sometimes oblique, margin serrulate with each tooth having a terminal seta, apex short acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, or cymose paniculate, 3 – 12 - flowered; peduncle 0.8 – 2.8 cm long, puberulent as branchlets. Flowers bisexual, radial but androecium bilateral, 4 - merous, pedicles, hypanthium and calyx lobes densely pubescent with bent uniseriate hairs and 0.5 – 1 mm long multiseriate glandular hairs; pedicel 0.4 – 1 cm long; hypanthium purplish-red, funnel-shaped, 5 × 3 – 4 mm; calyx lobes 4, ovate-triangular, 3 – 2 × 1 mm; petals 4, white with pink apex, ovate, ca. 7 × 5.5 mm, puberulent along midvein on the abaxial surface with red glandular hairs, apex slightly oblique; stamens 8 in two whorls, dimorphic, unequal in length, with the outer whorl much longer than the inner one, longer stamens ca. 16 mm long, filaments ca. 9 mm long, anthers lanceolate, curved, ca. 7 mm long, purple, connectives decurrent, purplish-red, forming 2 ventral lobes, shorter stamens ca. 9 mm long, filaments ca. 5 mm long, anthers lanceolate, slightly curved, ca. 4 mm, deep purple, connectives purplish-red, forming 2 ventral lobes and a dorsal tubercle; ovary ca. 4 mm long, 2 / 3 as long as the hypanthium (crown excluded), half inferior, locules 4, apex with membranous crown, crown margin ciliate with red glandular hairs; style ca. 1.2 cm long, basally inconspicuously puberulous. Capsule ca. 6 × 5 mm, funnel-shaped, with enlarged apical crown; placentation axial, placentas non-thready. Seeds numerous, cuneate.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
35F50B873B2752CFA7542F38CD4666C5.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the type locality of the new species, Pingshan County.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
35F50B873B2752CFA7542F38CD4666C5.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Bredia pingshanensis is only known from Lao-jun-shan Nature Reserve in Pingshan County, Sichuan, China, occurring on shaded and moist steep slopes along the road at forest margin.	en	Dai, Jin-Hong, Zhong, Zhe, Zhou, Ren-Chao, Liu, Ying (2025): New taxa and nomenclatural changes in Bredia (Sonerileae, Melastomataceae). PhytoKeys 266: 1-31, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.160564
