New discoveries of Lanonia (Arecaceae) from northern Vietnam and southwestern China
Jia-Wei Qin, Zhi-Ling Tian, Zheng-Shun Chen, Khang Sinh Nguyen, Ren-Ping Kuang · 2026
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Description
Jia-Wei Qin and co-authors announce in 2026 a new palm species from Vietnam and a range extension into China. The genus Lanonia holds fan palms of Asian forests. The new species, from Lao Cai province, stands apart from every known relative by two marks: an extremely short leaf stalk crown and ripe fruit of a purplish black hue.
The paper describes and illustrates it formally, then does the same for a Chinese first record of a known species, found in Guangxi with surprising leaf variety. Gene based family trees, built from seven stitched sequences under two statistical methods, backed both calls with maximal support. The new palm is its own lineage, and the variable Chinese plants are one species. Pollen grains were also photographed and described. Palm taxonomy of this sort is slow, specimen by specimen work, but each named lineage is one conservation can actually count.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jia-Wei Qin, Zhi-Ling Tian, Zheng-Shun Chen, Khang Sinh Nguyen, Ren-Ping Kuang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |