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Issue: Vol. 393 No. 2: 21 February 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-02-21
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.393.2.1
Page range: 89–104
Abstract views: 18
PDF downloaded: 1

Taxonomic studies on the genus Delphinium (Ranunculaceae) from China (XVII): Five new synonyms of D. afghanicum, a newly recorded species for China

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, 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
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
Afghanistan aktoense eastern Pamir-western Kunlun Shan kaschgaricum kunlunshanicum wuqiaense Xinjiang zhangii Eudicots

Abstract

Delphinium aktoense, D. kaschgaricum, D. kunlunshanicum, D. wuqiaense and D. zhangii (Ranunculaceae) were all described from the region of eastern Pamir-western Kunlun Shan in western Xinjiang, China. Critical observations on both herbarium specimens (including type material) and living plants demonstrate that they are indistinguishable from each other and are all conspecific with D. afghanicum, a species previously known only from Afghanistan.