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Issue: Vol. 243 No. 3: 14 January 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.243.3.4
Page range: 260–270
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 45

Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Ligularia ghatsukupa, L. leesicotal and L. rumicifolia (Asteraceae, Senecioneae)

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
School of Life Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, Hubei, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Utilization of Hunan Province, Jishou University, Jishou 416000, Hunan, China
Compositae new synonymy taxonomy Xizang Eudicots

Abstract

We clear up the taxonomic and nomenclatural confusion involving Ligularia ghatsukupa, L. leesicotal and L. rumicifolia (Asteraceae, Senecioneae). The independent specific status of Ligularia leesicotal, which has been previously placed in synonymy within L. rumicifolia, is reinstated. Ligularia rumicifolia (Good) S. W. Liu (1985) is the correct author citation, not L. rumicifolia S. W. Liu (1985). Ligularia ghatsukupa is found to be conspecific with L. rumicifolia and is thus synonymized.