This photo taken on Oct. 7, 2019 shows a new species of impatiens named Impatiens beipanjiangensis in Panzhou City, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Photo by Guo Ying/Xinhua)
GUIYANG, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have discovered a new species of impatiens in southwest China's Guizhou Province and named it Impatiens beipanjiangensis.
The yellow flowers are described in a paper published in a recent edition of the journal PhytoKeys.
The species is named after the Beipanjiang River Basin in Panzhou City, where a team of botanists first found the specimen in October 2019 during a field survey, said Xu Jian, a member of the team and a researcher with the Guizhou Botanical Garden.
Botanists have so far located about 5,100 plants of the species mostly in the humid valley environment 1,300-1,500 meters above sea level.
The new species, which flowers in October and November, is similar to some other impatiens species in morphology but has significant differences in its sepals, pollen, seed, and other traits, according to researchers. ■
This photo taken on Oct. 7, 2019 shows a new species of impatiens named Impatiens beipanjiangensis in Panzhou City, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Photo by Guo Ying/Xinhua)
