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Morphologically, it closely resembles\n                    <jats:italic>T. dunniana<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>T. pubera<\/jats:italic>\n                    but can be readily distinguished by its tiny black dots about the size of a pinpoint (c. 0.1 mm in diameter) on the stem surface, the leaf shape and basal leaf marking patterns, short and brittle petal fringes, orange-yellow fruit, and broadly ellipsoid seeds without ridges or ornaments. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on a plastid coding sequence dataset comprising 67 protein-coding genes (cp-CDS) and a concatenated three-locus dataset (ITS,\n                    <jats:italic>matK<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>rpl20-rps12<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) consistently place\n                    <jats:italic>T. metamorpha<\/jats:italic>\n                    within\n                    <jats:italic>T.<\/jats:italic>\n                    sect.\n                    <jats:italic>Involucraria<\/jats:italic>\n                    . The integrated evidence of its morphological characteristics and phylogenetic placement supports the recognition of\n                    <jats:italic>T. metamorpha<\/jats:italic>\n                    as a distinct species.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/phytokeys.280.190832","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,5]],"date-time":"2026-10-05T13:36:26Z","timestamp":1791207386000},"page":"1-18","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Trichosanthes metamorpha (Cucurbitaceae), a striking new species from Guangxi, China"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"280","author":[{"given":"Ruo-Zhou","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China"},{"name":"College of Horticulture and Gardening, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhao-Hui","family":"Ran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hanno","family":"Schaefer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Plant Biodiversity, Department of Life Science Systems, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sheng-Wei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China"},{"name":"Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Neng","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China"},{"name":"Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qing-Feng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China"},{"name":"Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"190832_B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0022-2836(05)80360-2"},{"key":"190832_B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5962\/bhl.title.6656"},{"key":"190832_B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3897\/phytokeys.12.2952"},{"key":"190832_B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2148-12-108"},{"key":"190832_B5","unstructured":"de Wilde WJJO, Duyfjes BEE (2010) Cucurbitaceae. 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