taxonID	type	description	language	source
E7A3753C266850DF84D5FCB9CD44C42F.taxon	materials_examined	Type. China. Yunnan Province, Malipo County, Xiajinchang Town, Mount Laoshan, in thick forests on the slopes of limestone hills, 23 ° 07 ' N, 104 ° 50 ' E, 1684 m a. s. l., 21 March 2022, Q. Fan 19220 (holotype: SYS; isotype: IBSC, SYS) (Figs 2, 3).	en	Meng, Kai-Kai, Chen, Su-Fang, Lin, Min, Liao, Wen-Bo, Jin, Jian-Hua, Fan, Qiang (2022): Eriobotrya crassifolia (Rosaceae), a new species from Yunnan Province, China. PhytoKeys 214: 17-25, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425
E7A3753C266850DF84D5FCB9CD44C42F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The new species resembles E. angustissima, but differs from the latter by its leaf shape and texture, the number of lateral veins and the indumentum of inflorescence.	en	Meng, Kai-Kai, Chen, Su-Fang, Lin, Min, Liao, Wen-Bo, Jin, Jian-Hua, Fan, Qiang (2022): Eriobotrya crassifolia (Rosaceae), a new species from Yunnan Province, China. PhytoKeys 214: 17-25, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425
E7A3753C266850DF84D5FCB9CD44C42F.taxon	description	Description. Evergreen trees, 15 - 25 m tall; stems 10 - 30 cm in diameter; branchlets grey-white, terete, glabrous, 4 - 8 mm in diameter. Leaves spirally inserted on branches and often crowded at tips of branchlets, margin sparsely serrate; petioles 1 - 1.5 cm long, glabrous; stipules linear-lanceolate, 10 - 12 x 1 - 2 mm, glabrous; leaf blades oblong or elliptic, 9 - 11 x 2.5 - 3.5 cm, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, mid-vein prominent, raised abaxially, lateral veins 10 - 17 pairs, sporadically dichotomous before terminating at margin, apex acute to acuminate, base cuneate, margin deflexed with sharply serrate. Inflorescence in terminal panicles, 17 - to 30 - flowered, 6.7 - 9.8 x 4 - 7.7 cm, with 4 - 7 lateral racemes, peduncle and pedicels densely rusty tomentose, pedicels 3 - 4 mm; bracts and bracteoles ovate-triangular, 2 - 4 x 8 - 10 mm, abaxially densely tomentose, adaxially glabrous; petals white, quincuncial, obovate-triangular or suborbicular, 9 - 10 x 6 - 8 mm, apex emarginate; stamens 20; filaments 5.3 - 8.1 mm long, glabrous; anthers 1.4 - 1.5 mm long; styles 6.2 - 9 mm long; ovary inferior; hypanthium shallow-cupular, 9 - 10 x 6 - 8 mm, abaxially densely rusty tomentose, 5 - lobed, the calyx lobes triangular-ovate, 9 - 10 x 5 - 6 mm, abaxially densely rusty tomentose; ovary 2 - 4 - loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; styles 2 - 4, mostly 3, densely yellowish villous in the lower part, connate at base or fused at one fourth of the base; fruits elliptoid or subglobose, 6 - 7 x 7 - 9 mm, glabrescent, capsules crowned by five persistent calyx lobes; seeds 2 - 3 per fruit.	en	Meng, Kai-Kai, Chen, Su-Fang, Lin, Min, Liao, Wen-Bo, Jin, Jian-Hua, Fan, Qiang (2022): Eriobotrya crassifolia (Rosaceae), a new species from Yunnan Province, China. PhytoKeys 214: 17-25, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425
E7A3753C266850DF84D5FCB9CD44C42F.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Latin crassus, thick, and folia, leaved, alluding to leaf thickness	en	Meng, Kai-Kai, Chen, Su-Fang, Lin, Min, Liao, Wen-Bo, Jin, Jian-Hua, Fan, Qiang (2022): Eriobotrya crassifolia (Rosaceae), a new species from Yunnan Province, China. PhytoKeys 214: 17-25, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425
E7A3753C266850DF84D5FCB9CD44C42F.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Presently, Eriobotrya crassifolia is known from a single locality, Laoshan Natural Reserve, Malipo County, south-eastern Yunnan Province, China. It is distributed in thick forests on the slopes of limestone hills at altitudes of 1502 - 1684 m a. s. l.	en	Meng, Kai-Kai, Chen, Su-Fang, Lin, Min, Liao, Wen-Bo, Jin, Jian-Hua, Fan, Qiang (2022): Eriobotrya crassifolia (Rosaceae), a new species from Yunnan Province, China. PhytoKeys 214: 17-25, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425
E7A3753C266850DF84D5FCB9CD44C42F.taxon	materials_examined	Additional specimens examined (paratypes). China. Yunnan: Malipo County, Xiajinchang Township, Laoshan Natural Reserve, 23 ° 07 ' N, 104 ° 50 ' E, 1684 m a. s. l., 2 Dec 2015 (no fl. and no fr.), Q. Fan 13941 (SYS); the same locality, 27 June 2022 (young fr.), Q. Fan 19580 (SYS); Malipo County, Tianbao Township, Laoshan Natural Reserve, in thick forests on the slopes of limestone hills, 23 ° 11 ' N, 104 ° 48 ' E, 1502 m a. s. l., 16 September 2015 (no fl. and no fr.), Q. Fan 13713 (SYS).	en	Meng, Kai-Kai, Chen, Su-Fang, Lin, Min, Liao, Wen-Bo, Jin, Jian-Hua, Fan, Qiang (2022): Eriobotrya crassifolia (Rosaceae), a new species from Yunnan Province, China. PhytoKeys 214: 17-25, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.214.96425
