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Issue: Vol. 284 No. 2: 11 November 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-10
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.284.2.3
Page range: 131–136
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 47

Reinstatement of the Chinese species Cremanthodium gypsophilum (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
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
Compositae misidentification taxonomy Yunnan Eudicots

Abstract

Examination of herbarium specimens (including type material) of Cremanthodium principis and C. gypsophilum has revealed that the two species are morphologically very distinct from each other. We therefore reinstate the independent specific status of C. gypsophilum which has been placed in synonymy with C. principis. The latter species is currently known only from the holotype, and all the other specimens previously identified as C. principis should belong to C. gypsophilum.