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Issue: Vol. 435 No. 3: 11 March 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-03-11
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.435.3.6
Page range: 251–254
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 3

Phyllopentas schimperi comb. nov. (Rubiaceae), a replacement name for the illegitimate combination Phyllopentas schimperiana

Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China
Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 45166 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China
Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China
Rubiaceae Phyllopentas new combination Tropical Africa Eudicots

Abstract

The new combination Phyllopentas schimperi (Hochstetter) Y.D. Zhou & Q.F. Wang is here proposed to replace the two illegitimate combinations Phyllopentas schimperiana (Vatke) Kårehed & B. Bremer and Phyllopentas schimperiana (A. Richard) Kårehed & B. Bremer of this species, which is found in Tropical Africa, and was formerly positioned in Pentas.