A NEW DISTRIBUTION OF CORYLUS WANGII HU (BETULACEAE) IN SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA

Chinese records of Corylus wangii Hu (Betulaceae) have only been reported fornorthwestern Yunnan Province.Specimens collected from eastern Sichuan and deposited inPEwere recently identified as C.wangii, This represents a new distribution for the species.Although C.wangii is sometimes synonymized under Corylus jacquemontii,we found it to bemorphologically and molecularly distinct.