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Issue: Vol. 706 No. 2: 24 Jun. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-06-24
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.706.2.5
Page range: 155-162
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Identity of Lagochilus xianjiangensis (Lamiaceae), a doubtful species from the Tianshan Mountains of China

State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops&State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; National Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops&State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; National Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops&State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; National Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops&State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; National Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Abstract

Lagochilus lanatonodus and L. xianjiangensis are perennial herbs endemic to China. Based on our critical examination of specimens and field investigations, the characters used to distinguish the two species are unstable. In the present study, molecular phylogenetic analyses based on the Angiosperms353 gene set are conducted, and the results fully support that L. xianjiangensis is nested within L. lanatonodus. Combining the results of morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses, we here reduced L. xianjiangensis to a synonym of L. lanatonodus.

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Chen, Y.-Y., Wang, Y., Wu, X.-X. & Wang, Q. (2025) Identity of Lagochilus xianjiangensis (Lamiaceae), a doubtful species from the Tianshan Mountains of China. Phytotaxa 706 (2): 155–162. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.706.2.5