taxonID	type	description	language	source
B7D009985D78BE68C65432CBE4691CEE.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Similar to Ophiorrhiza hunanica H. S. Lo based on stems, leaves and capsules; differing from it by the stems which are glabrous, glabrescent or pilose, the 5 - 10 cm long subterranean stem internodes, the glabrous or pilose petioles, the 3 - 5 mm long stipules, the purple corolla tube and lobes, the ca. 12 mm long styles and the included stigmas in long-styled flowers, the 3 - 4 mm x 8 - 10 mm, glabrous or glabrescent capsules [vs. stems densely villose, subterranean stem internodes 1 - 2 cm long, petioles villose, stipules 5 - 15 mm long, corolla tube purple and corolla lobes white, style 15 - 17 mm long and stigmas exserted in long-styled flowers, capsules 5 - 6 mm x 10 - 12 mm, densely villose in Ophiorrhiza hunanica (Figs 3, 4 F)].	en	Duan, Lin-Dong, Lin, Yun, Lu, Zhen (2019): Ophiorrhiza shiqianensis (Rubiaceae), a new species from Guizhou, China. PhytoKeys 121: 43-51, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570
B7D009985D78BE68C65432CBE4691CEE.taxon	materials_examined	Type. CHINA. Guizhou: Shiqian County, Pingshan Town, Fudingshan Nature Reserve, at sides of streams in dense evergreen broad-leaved forest in valley at 960 m elevation, 18 March 2014 (fl), L. D. Duan, Z. Lu & Q. Lin 5805 (holotype: PE!, Herb. Bar. Code No. 02232812; isotypes HUFD! (= Herbarium, Hunan Food and Drug Vocational College, Hunan, China), HUSY! (= Herbarium, Shaoyang University, Hunan, China) IBSC!, K!, KUN!, PE!).	en	Duan, Lin-Dong, Lin, Yun, Lu, Zhen (2019): Ophiorrhiza shiqianensis (Rubiaceae), a new species from Guizhou, China. PhytoKeys 121: 43-51, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570
B7D009985D78BE68C65432CBE4691CEE.taxon	description	Description. Perennial herbs, 10 - 30 cm tall, repent at base. Stems erect, fleshy, green, brown to black after drying, glabrous, glabrescent or pilose; subterranean stems glabrous with 5 - 10 cm long internodes. Leaves: petioles 1.5 - 4.0 cm long, glabrous or pilose; blades papery after drying, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 7 - 17 cm x 3 - 7.5 cm, adaxially pilose, abaxially pilose on veins, base cuneate, apex obtuse to subacute; secondary veins 9 - 11 pairs; stipules often persistent, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3 - 5 mm long, ciliate. Inflorescence cymose, terminal, 2 - to 10 - flowered, densely villose, pendulous; peduncle 2.5 - 4 cm long when flowering, 8 - 10 cm long when fruiting, arching, densely villose. Bracts linear-lanceolate, 9 - 10 mm long, ciliate; bracteoles linear, 4 - 5 mm long, ciliate. Flowers distylous, pedicels 1 - 2 mm long, densely covered with hairs. Calyx with hypanthium compressed-turbinate, 2.5 - 3 mm long, 5 - ribbed, densely covered with hairs; lobes 5, lanceolate-linear, 5 - 6 mm long, ciliate. Corolla tube and lobes purple, funnel-form, outside glabrous, inside pubescent; tube 1.7 - 1.8 cm long; lobes 5, ovate-triangular, 4 - 6 mm long, apex rostrate. Stamens 5, inserted near throat and exserted at anthesis in short-styled flowers or inserted below middle of corolla tube and included at anthesis in long-styled flowers; filaments 1.5 - 2 mm long in short-styled or ca. 1 mm long in long-styled flowers; anthers ca. 2.5 mm long, dorsifixed. Ovary 2 - celled, ovules numerous in each cell; style ca. 12 mm long in long-styled or 7 - 7.5 mm long in short-styled flowers; stigmas 2, linear in short-styled or subcapitate in long-styled flowers, included in both morphs. Capsules purple, mitriform, strongly laterally compressed, 3 - 4 mm x 8 - 10 mm, pilose or glabrescent. Seeds numerous.	en	Duan, Lin-Dong, Lin, Yun, Lu, Zhen (2019): Ophiorrhiza shiqianensis (Rubiaceae), a new species from Guizhou, China. PhytoKeys 121: 43-51, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570
B7D009985D78BE68C65432CBE4691CEE.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Ophiorrhiza shiqianensis is only known from two localities in Shiqian County, northeast Guizhou Province, southwest China, notably: Fudingshan Nature Reserve, Pingshan Town and Nishan Village, Ganxi Town.	en	Duan, Lin-Dong, Lin, Yun, Lu, Zhen (2019): Ophiorrhiza shiqianensis (Rubiaceae), a new species from Guizhou, China. PhytoKeys 121: 43-51, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570
B7D009985D78BE68C65432CBE4691CEE.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Ophiorrhiza shiqianensis is named after its type locality, Shiqian County, northeast Guizhou Province, southwest China.	en	Duan, Lin-Dong, Lin, Yun, Lu, Zhen (2019): Ophiorrhiza shiqianensis (Rubiaceae), a new species from Guizhou, China. PhytoKeys 121: 43-51, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.121.30570
