TY - JOUR AU - Xuyen, Do Thi AU - Phuong, Vu Xuan PY - 2012/03/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A new record of species Didymocarpus kerrii Craib (Gesneriaceae Dumort) for the flora of Vietnam JF - Academia Journal of Biology JA - AJB VL - 34 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.15625/0866-7160/v34n1.671 UR - https://vjs.ac.vn/index.php/vjbio/article/view/671 SP - 72-74 AB - <p>The genus <em>Didymocarpus </em>Wall. comprises about 180 species, mainly distributed Southeast Asia, there were 3 <em>Didymocarpus </em>species recorded in Vietnam. During the study of specimens of Gesneriaceae collected in Vietnam, we found species <em>Didymocarpus kerrii </em>Craib in Ba Vi national park, Vietnam.</p> <p><em>Didymocarpus kerrii </em>is herbs, have or near stemless. Leaves basal or opposite if have stem, leaf blade near round or broadly elliptic, ca. 1-4.5 × 1-4 cm, papery, pubescent in 2 surfaces especially gladuland hair in abaxial surface, and then glabrous, margins serrate, lateral veins 5-6 pairs; petiole 0.5-5 cm long. Inflorescences cymes, multi-flower; peduncle with puberulent, and then glarous; Calyx connate into campanulate, 5 mm long, 2 lips. Corolla 20 mm long, outer glabrous, 2 lips: adaxial lip 2 lobes; abaxial lip 3 lobes, longer than adaxial lip, round apex. Stamens 2, coherent at the anther; Filament 2 mm long, adnate in middle of corolla, glabrous; ovary 10 mm long, glabrous; style 3-4 mm long; stigma head. Capsule line, straight, ca. 3-4 cm long, glabrous. Seeds unappendaged.</p> <p>This species is closed to <em>D. pulcher </em>but differs from the later by having corolla outer glabrous; leaf blade near round or broadlly elliptic, ca. 1-4,5 × 1-4 cm. Voucher specimens were collected in Ba Vi national park, Hanoi and deposited in the Herbarium of the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam (HN).</p> ER -