taxonID	type	description	language	source
039D4975B728FFE96FBDF8EE61F8F852.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — CHINA. Yunnan Province, Gongshan County, from Dala [Bingzhongluo] to Sula bridge, Nujiang valley, mixed forest margin, 1700 m, 25 June 1938, T. T. Yü 22027 (holotype KUN 0737418; isotypes KUN 0737419, PE 01690806, PE 01690805). Perennial herbs. Taproot slender with shoot-bearing lateral roots. Stem ca. 2 mm in diameter, about 20 – 43 cm tall, solitary, erect, unbranched, glabrous to sparsely pubescent. Basal leaves long petiolate; petiole 5 – 40 mm long, blade elliptic to oblong, both surfaces glabrous, 10 – 12 × 3 – 3.5 cm, lyrately pinnatifid; lateral lobes 4 – 5 pairs, opposite to obliquely opposite, triangular-ovate, 4 – 12 × 4 – 14 mm, margins subentire or mucronate, apex acute and mucronate; terminal lobe the largest, ovate to elliptic, ca. 6 × 3.4 cm, margin sparsely toothed and mucronate, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate. Lower and middle leaves shortly petiolate; petiole 5 – 12 mm long, blade elliptic, both surfaces glabrous, 6 – 8.5 × 2.3 – 3 cm, lyrately pinnatisect; lateral lobes 2 – 4 pairs, opposite to obliquely opposite, triangular-ovate, 3 – 10 × 3 – 11 mm, margins subentire or mucronate, apex acute and mucronate; terminal lobe the largest, ovate to elliptic, 4 – 6 × 2.2 – 3 cm, margin sparsely toothed and mucronate, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate. Upper leaves shortly petiolate to nearly sessile; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 5.5 – 8.8 × 1.5 – 2.7 cm, apex acuminate, base attenuate, margin entire and mucronate, lateral lobes 0 – 1 pairs. Synflorescence paniculiform, with several axillary more or less corymbiform smaller partial synflorescence with 3 – 14 small capitula; axillary synflorescence usually with 1 – 2 clustered bracts at the base or with small bracts at the node of the peduncles; bractal leaves ovate to elliptic. Capitula with 5 – 6 (– 9) florets; peduncles slender and glabrous. Involucres cylindric, 2 – 3 mm in diameter, 7 – 10 mm long. Phyllaries in 3 – 4 rows, margin white scarious; outermost phyllaries ovate, ca. 1.0 × 0.7 mm, apex obtuse and ciliate; middle phyllaries ovate-oblong, ca. 2.5 × 0.6 mm, apex acute; innermost phyllaries linear-oblong, 7 – 10 × ca. 1.5 mm. Florets yellow, tube ca. 2.8 mm long, ligule ca. 4.2 mm long, ca. 1.2 mm wide, apex 5 - toothed. Anther tube yellow, 1 – 1.2 mm long. Style branches ca. 1.2 mm long. Achene dark brown, subfusiform, 2 – 3 mm long; ribs 11 – 14, unequal, ribs finely spiculate. Pappus white, 3 – 6 mm long. Phenology: — Flowering from late May to early August.	en	Ke, Rui, Chen, You-Sheng (2016): A new species of Youngia (Asteraceae, tribe Cichorieae) from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 275 (2): 140-148, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.275.2.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.275.2.5
039D4975B728FFE96FBDF8EE61F8F852.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — Youngia gongshanensis is currently known only from Bingzhongluo, Gongshan County, Yunnan Province, China (see Figure 5). The new species grows along streamside in Nujiang valley at altitudes of 1700 – 1800 (– 2750) m. Additional specimens examined: –– CHINA. Yunnan, Gongshan County, from Danshan to Bingzhongluo, streamside, 1700 m, 2 May 1960, South Water to North Exped. (Northwest Yunnan Group) 8737 (KUN, PE); Gongshan County, Bingzhongluo, from Sijitong to Gawagapu, 1800 (– 2750) m, 1 August 2013, X. H. Jin et al., ST 1609 (PE).	en	Ke, Rui, Chen, You-Sheng (2016): A new species of Youngia (Asteraceae, tribe Cichorieae) from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 275 (2): 140-148, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.275.2.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.275.2.5
