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Issue: Vol. 283 No. 2: 4 November 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-03
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.283.2.6
Page range: 172–180
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 47

Reinstatement of the specific status of Ligularia shifangensis (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
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Popov Str. 2, Saint Petersburg 197376, Russia
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
Compositae Ligularia liatroides Sichuan taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Ligularia shifangensis (Asteraceae, Senecioneae) has been treated as L. liatroides var. shifangensis. Observations of both herbarium specimens (including type material) and living plants demonstrate that L. shifangensis is a distinct species. From L. liatroides it can be readily distinguished by the shape of leaves and involucres, the number and pubescence of phyllaries, and a shorter pappus. The affinity of L. shifangensis may lie with L. tsangchanensis, from which it differs mainly in the shape of involucres, the length of peduncles and a shorter pappus.