Two genera, Callipeltis Steven (Rubiaceae) and Acanthocephalus Kar. & Kir. (Asteraceae), together with five species, Callipeltis cucullaris (L.) DC., Acanthocephalus benthamianus Regel, Galium verticillatum Danthoine ex Lam. (Rubiaceae), Nonea turcomanica Popov (Boraginaceae), and Erysimum croceum Popov (Brassicaceae), are reported as new records to China. | Turkish Journal of Botany Research Note Turk J Bot (2018) 42: 239-245 © TÜBİTAK doi: Two genera and five species newly recorded in China Jidong YA, Jie CAI, Qiaorong ZHANG* Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, . China Received: Accepted/Published Online: Final Version: Abstract: Two genera, Callipeltis Steven (Rubiaceae) and Acanthocephalus Kar. & Kir. (Asteraceae), together with five species, Callipeltis cucullaris (L.) DC., Acanthocephalus benthamianus Regel, Galium verticillatum Danthoine ex Lam. (Rubiaceae), Nonea turcomanica Popov (Boraginaceae), and Erysimum croceum Popov (Brassicaceae), are reported as new records to China. Key words: Callipeltis, Acanthocephalus, Galium, Nonea, Erysimum, new records, China 1. Introduction Callipeltis Stev. includes 3 species, which are widely distributed from the Western Mediterranean to Pakistan (Qaiser and Nazimuddin, 1989), but no record had been reported from China. During the field expeditions to northern Xinjiang Province of China in 2016, Callipeltis cucullaris (L.) DC. was collected in Yining and Gongliu counties in flowering and fruiting. Acanthocephalus Kar. & Kir. is a small genus with 2 species distributed in Southwest Asia (Sales and Hedge, 2013). Acanthocephalus benthamianus Regel was mentioned in the key to Cichorieae of Iconographia Cormophytorum Sinicorum Volume 4 (Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, 1974) and in the website of Chinese Plant Names. However, there had not been any description and collection citation until a few individuals were collected in Gongliu county recently. Galium L. comprises more than 600 species worldwide. It was represented by 63 species in China (Chen and Ehrendorfer, 2011), excluding Galium verticillatum Danthoine ex Lam., which was also collected in Yining and Gongliu counties in 2016. Nonea Medik. is a genus .
