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Issue: Vol. 439 No. 2: 16 April 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-04-16
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.439.2.1
Page range: 108–118
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new taxa and one new record of Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) from India and Pakistan

Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS, Zolotodolinskaya st. 101, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Herbarium, Lenin st. 36, Tomsk 634050, Russia
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK
Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Herbarium, Lenin st. 36, Tomsk 634050, Russia Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Aquilegia distribution Himalayas morphology taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

A new species Aquilegia bashahrica and a new nothospecies Aquilegia × emodi from North-western Himalayas, are described and illustrated. In addition A. lactiflora is recorded for India and Pakistan for the first time and Aquilegia kareliniana is excluded from the flora of India. An identification key to the species of Aquilegia from the North-western Himalayas is provided and diagnostic characters are discussed.