taxonID	type	description	language	source
08688789FFEF1D4BFF61EBB9FF4FFAF4.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — CHINA: Guangdong: Yangchun city, from Heweishan to Sanchahe, in sparse forest on mountain ridge, 19 October 1957, W. T. Lin 30962 (holotype SYS (not seen); isotype PE 00024541!). Fig. 1 A.	en	Zeng, You-Pai, Xu, Ye-Chun (2025): Reinstatement of the independent specific status of Pyrenaria rostrata (Theaceae) from China. Phytotaxa 701 (3): 287-293, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.701.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.701.3.7
08688789FFEF1D4BFF61EBB9FF4FFAF4.taxon	description	Description: — Shrubs ca. 3 m tall. Young branches yellowish brown to grayish brown; current year branchlets glabrous. Petiole 1 – 1.8 cm long; leaf blade elliptic, 9 – 14 × 3 – 5 cm, leathery, both sides green, sparsely pubescent when young but soon glabrescent, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 7 – 9 on each side of midvein, base cuneate, margin obtuse-serrate, apex acute to obtuse. Flowers axillary, solitary, 5 – 7 cm in diam. Pedicel 1.5 – 4.5 cm long, glabrous; bracteoles 2, broadly ovate, 2 – 2.5 × 1.5 – 2 mm, outside densely yellow sericeous. Sepals 5, suborbicular to broadly ovate, 5 – 7 mm in diam., leathery, outside yellowish sericeous, margin membranous, apex rounded. Petals 5 or 6, yellow, obovate to elliptic, 2 – 3 × 1.2 – 1.5 cm, outside yellowish sericeous, inside glabrous, margin membranous, apex emarginate. Stamens numerous, ca. 1 cm long, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally slightly connate and adnate to petals. Ovary glabrous, 3 - loculed with 1 – 2 ovules per locule; style single, glabrous. Capsule triangular-pyramidal, base rounded, apically rostrate, 1.5 – 2 cm in diam., 3 – 4 cm long, dehiscent from base; pericarp 1 – 5 mm thick when dry, woody, glabrous. Seeds brown, oblong, laterally compressed, ca. 1.5 cm long. Phenology: — Flowering from May to June; fruiting from July to November.	en	Zeng, You-Pai, Xu, Ye-Chun (2025): Reinstatement of the independent specific status of Pyrenaria rostrata (Theaceae) from China. Phytotaxa 701 (3): 287-293, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.701.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.701.3.7
08688789FFEF1D4BFF61EBB9FF4FFAF4.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — Pyrenaria rostrata is currently known only from its type locality, i. e. Yangchun city in southwestern Guangdong, China. It grows in sparse forests on mountain ridge at elevations of 100 ‒ 400 m. Additional specimens examined: — CHINA. Guangdong: Yangchun, Z. X. Li 19 (IBSC), H. G. Ye et al. 6628 (IBSC).	en	Zeng, You-Pai, Xu, Ye-Chun (2025): Reinstatement of the independent specific status of Pyrenaria rostrata (Theaceae) from China. Phytotaxa 701 (3): 287-293, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.701.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.701.3.7
