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Issue: Vol. 408 No. 3: 1 July 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.408.3.6
Page range: 215–221
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 1

Exclusion of Glochidion coccineum (Phyllanthaceae) from the flora of China

Guangdong Key Laboratory for Innovative Development and Utilization of Forest Plant Germplasm, College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
Guangdong Key Laboratory for Innovative Development and Utilization of Forest Plant Germplasm, College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Guangdong Key Laboratory for Innovative Development and Utilization of Forest Plant Germplasm, College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
Phyllantheae geographical distribution misidentification taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

The species Glochidion coccineum has long been considered to be widely distributed in China. Based on results from extensive specimen examinations and field investigations, we demonstrate that all the Chinese specimens previously identified as G. coccineum belong to G. daltonii, G. ellipticum, G. lanceolarium, G. oblatum, G. puber or G. sphaerogynum. Glochidion coccineum is not known to China and thus the distribution of the species in China is excluded. Filed images as well as a key to G. coccineum and relevant misidentified species are provided.