taxonID	type	description	language	source
6062E3BB7F9551808689E38F7AEE8B2E.taxon	description	Figs 3, 4, 5, 6 Chinese name. 昭璇梨	en	Yi, Xiao-Wei, Wu, Ying-Yu, Fan, Qiang, Chen, Fang, Chen, Zai-Xiong, Liu, Bin-Bin, Huang, Cui-Ying (2025): Pyrus zhaoxuanii (Rosaceae), A new pear species from Danxiashan Mountain, Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 254: 161-173, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.254.138039
6062E3BB7F9551808689E38F7AEE8B2E.taxon	description	Description. Deciduous shrubs or small trees, 2 – 5 m high, with lateral branches; bark dark gray to brownish with vertical splits; much-branched; Twigs smooth, spiny, covered with linear lenticels. Leaf buds long ellipsoid, with 5 – 7 hairy scales outside. Leaves fascicled on short branches; petiole 2 – 12 mm long; Leaf blade obovate, rarely elliptic, (14) 19 – 31 (45) × (7) 10 – 15 (23) mm, margin obtusely serrate, base cuneate, apex blunt or round, rarely acuminate, leathery in quality. Corymb 2 – 8 flowered, receptacle cup-shaped, covered with short hairs; sepals are triangular, ca. 4 mm long, woolly, with rust-colored velutinous on the margins, bending downwards at the apex; flower 12 – 17.5 (29.5) mm in diameter; Petals 5, 5 – 8 × 5 – 6 mm, pure white, glabrous, obovate, margin slightly sinuate, apex rounded; filament 3 – 7 mm long; anthers purple to pink; style 2, 4 – 6.5 mm long, glabrous; flower stalk (19) 21 – 35 mm long. Pome small, spheroid, reddish-brown to brownish-black, ca. 1 cm long; fruiting pedicel 18 – 36 mm long. Seeds ovate, blackish, ca. 2 × 5 mm.	en	Yi, Xiao-Wei, Wu, Ying-Yu, Fan, Qiang, Chen, Fang, Chen, Zai-Xiong, Liu, Bin-Bin, Huang, Cui-Ying (2025): Pyrus zhaoxuanii (Rosaceae), A new pear species from Danxiashan Mountain, Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 254: 161-173, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.254.138039
6062E3BB7F9551808689E38F7AEE8B2E.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Pyrus zhaoxuanii is named in honor of Prof. Zhao-Xuan Zeng (1921 – 2007), a famous geographer of South China Normal University, who made significant contribution to the study of danxia landscape.	en	Yi, Xiao-Wei, Wu, Ying-Yu, Fan, Qiang, Chen, Fang, Chen, Zai-Xiong, Liu, Bin-Bin, Huang, Cui-Ying (2025): Pyrus zhaoxuanii (Rosaceae), A new pear species from Danxiashan Mountain, Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 254: 161-173, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.254.138039
6062E3BB7F9551808689E38F7AEE8B2E.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. The new species is currently known only from its type locality, Mount Danxiashan, Renhua County, Guangdong Province, China. It typically grows on steep slopes at altitudes of 200 – 600 m above sea level.	en	Yi, Xiao-Wei, Wu, Ying-Yu, Fan, Qiang, Chen, Fang, Chen, Zai-Xiong, Liu, Bin-Bin, Huang, Cui-Ying (2025): Pyrus zhaoxuanii (Rosaceae), A new pear species from Danxiashan Mountain, Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 254: 161-173, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.254.138039
