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Issue: Vol. 500 No. 3: 13 May 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-05-13
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.500.3.2
Page range: 166–178
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

Heracleum piliferum (Apiaceae), a new species from central Nepal

Botanical Garden, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–12 Leninskie Gory, 119234, Moscow, Russia
Department of Higher Plants, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–12 Leninskie Gory, 119234, Moscow, Russia
Botanical Garden, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–12 Leninskie Gory, 119234, Moscow, Russia
Department of Evolutionary Biochemistry, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–40 Leninskie Gory, 119234, Moscow, Russia
Botanical Garden, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–12 Leninskie Gory, 119234, Moscow, Russia
Himalayas Nepal nrITS plant diversity plant taxonomy Umbelliferae Eudicots

Abstract

A new species, Heracleum piliferum (Apiaceae), is described from the Annapurna mountain massif, central Nepal. The new species is related to H. forrestii and H. hemsleyanum and differs from them in dense pubescence of petioles, short triangular sheaths of stem leaves, 2-pinnate leaf blades, shallow notched terminal leaf segments, crenulate leaf margin, larger terminal umbels, and broadly winged lateral ribs of the mericarps.