Oreocharis fulvovillosa (Gesneriaceae), a new species from western Yunnan, China Author Wang, Yang 0000-0002-2279-3828 Mountain Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China Author Jiang, Hong 0000-0001-6613-8588 Yunnan Key Laboratory of Biodiversity of Gaoligong Mountain, Yunnan Academy of Forestry and Grassland, Kunming, Yunnan, China Author Xu, Bo 0000-0003-3507-9321 Mountain Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China Author Han, Meng-Qi 0000-0002-9059-7255 State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China text PhytoKeys 2026 2026-06-08 276 17 23 journal article 315389 10.3897/phytokeys.276.182136 d3abe8b2-6730-4c7b-b438-e060a03a4750

Table 1. Morphological comparison among Oreocharis fulvovillosa sp. nov., O. bullata, O. fulva, and O. hekouensis.

Characters	Oreocharis fulvovillosa	Oreocharis bullata	Oreocharis fulva	Oreocharis hekouensis
Number of leaves	7–12	ca. 10	4–8	5–8
Petiole length	2–5 cm	1–3 cm	3–8 cm	1–4 cm
Leaf blade shape	Ovate to broadly ovate	Ovate to ovate-rhomboid	Broadly ovate	Ovate
Leaf margin	Crenulate	Double dentate	Serrate to crenate	Crenate
Adaxial surface	Bullate	Bullate	Not bullate	Not bullate
Calyx	5 - lobed nearly to base	5 - lobed from middle	5 - lobed nearly to base	5 - lobed nearly to base
Corolla tube	Slender tubular, ca. 1 cm long	Tubular, ca. 2.7 cm long	Tubular, ca. 2.4 cm long	Tubular, 2.4–3.0 cm long
Capsule	1–1.9 cm	3.0–4.2 cm	2.0–2.5 cm	2.5–3.8 cm