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Issue: Vol. 490 No. 2: 12 March 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-03-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.490.2.4
Page range: 183–190
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Reinstatement of Lonicera tricalysioides (Caprifoliaceae) as a distinctive species from China

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, 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 Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
Guizhou morphology Sichuan taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Lonicera tricalysioides (Caprifoliaceae), a species described only on the basis of specimens with immature fruits from Chishui county in northern Guizhou province, China, has been previously reduced to the synonymy of L. ligustrina var. pileata. Upon the observations of both herbarium specimens and living plants in the field, we determine that L. tricalysioides is a distinctive species and thus reinstate its independent specific status herein.