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Issue: Vol. 600 No. 3: 26 June 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-06-26
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.3.2
Page range: 136-152
Abstract views: 160
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Taxonomic studies on the genus Delphinium (Ranunculaceae) from China (XXIV): D. latilimbum, recently described from southern Xizang (Tibet), is another new synonym of D. kamaonense, a Sino-Himalayan species

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.
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.
Delphinium hirticaule morphology Sino-Himalayan flora taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Based on critical observations on herbarium specimens and living plants in the wild, we demonstrate that Delphinium
latilimbum, recently described from Cona county in southern Xiang (Tibet), China, is conspecific with D. kamaonense, a widely distributed Sino-Himalayan species. We therefore place D. latilimbum in synonymy with D. kamaonense herein. The occasional presence of sparsely pubescent filaments of stamens in D. kamaonense is confirmed, but this character is considered to be of little taxonomic significance. A distribution map is given for D. kamaonense.

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