2010 Volume 60 Issue 3 Pages 159-162
A new species of Pieris (Ericaceae), P. amamioshimensis Setoguchi & Y. Maeda, from Amamioshima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, is described and illustrated. Pieris amamioshimensis is similar to P. koidzumiana from Okinawa Island, but differs in having lanceolate-oblanceolate leaves and larger corollas.