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Issue: Vol. 391 No. 4: 8 February 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-02-08
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.4.4
Page range: 267–268
Abstract views: 15
PDF downloaded: 1

Lectotypification of Carex insignis (Cyperaceae)

Taxonomy of Angiosperms and Biosystematics Section, UGC-CAS Department of Botany, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan- 713104, INDIA
Taxonomy of Angiosperms and Biosystematics Section, UGC-CAS Department of Botany, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan- 713104, INDIA
Taxonomy of Angiosperms and Biosystematics Section, UGC-CAS Department of Botany, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan- 713104, INDIA
Poales Cariceae Cyperaceae Monocots

Abstract

Carex insignis Boott (1858: 5) is the name applied to a species that belongs to Carex sect. Decorae (Kükenthal) Ohwi (1936: 338). It occurs in East, South and South-East Asia (Liang et al. 2010). Global Carex Group (2016) found section Decorae to be polyphyletic, being their representatives placed on the Core Carex clade, within the “small Core Carex” or early diverging within “large Core Carex” subclade. Unfortunately, C. insignis was not included in that phylogenetic study.