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Issue: Vol. 267 No. 1: 30 June 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-06-30
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.267.1.10
Page range: 89–90
Abstract views: 22
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Artemisia neosinensis, a new name for Artemisia sinensis (Anthemideae, Asteraceae)

State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China
Artemisia neosinensis Artemisia sinensis Anthemideae Asteraceae Eudicots

Abstract

Artemisia Linnaeus (1753: 845) is the largest genus of the tribe Anthemideae (Asteraceae). It comprises about 350–500 species and is distributed mainly in the Northern Hemisphere (Torrell et al. 1999, Shultz 2006, Garcia et al. 2011, Ling et al. 2011). Traditionally it was classified into 5 subgenera, i.e., A. subgen. Artemisia, A. subgen. Absinthium (Miller 1754: unpaged) Lessing (1832: 264), A. subgen. Dracunculus (Besser 1835: 8) Rydberg (1916: 251), A. subgen. Seriphidium (Besser ex Lessing 1832: 264) Fourreau (1869: 89), and A. subgen. Tridentatae (Rydberg 1916: 282) McArthur in McArthur et al. (1981: 590), largely based on floral and capitula characters (Shultz 2006). Although this subgeneric classification was partly incongruent with recent molecular studies (Pellicer et al. 2014), it is still widely used. There are about 217 species in China, representing 4 subgenera (Ling 1991, Ling et al. 2011), the only exception being A. subgen. Tridentatae, which is endemic to North America (Shultz 2006).