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Issue: Vol. 432 No. 3: 12 February 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.432.3.7
Page range: 296–300
Abstract views: 15
PDF downloaded: 1

Silene ohwii (Caryophyllaceae), a replaced name for Melandrium nubigenum

Botanic Garden Division, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei 10066, Taiwan
Department of Bioresources, Da-Yeh University, Changhua 51591, Taiwan.
Botanic Garden Division, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei 10066, Taiwan
Botanic Garden Division, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei 10066, Taiwan
later homonym Lectotypification Caryophyllaceae Eudicots

Abstract

Silene Linnaeus (1753: 416) (Caryophyllaceae Juss.) is one of the largest genera of flowering plants in the world, consisting of about 700 species (Melzheimer 1988, Morton 2005) the majority of which are distributed in the Mediterranean area (Greuter 1995). The genus is critical from both taxonomic and nomenclatural points of views (see e.g., Petri et al. 2011, Rautenberg et al. 2011, Naciri et al. 2017, Đurović et al. 2018, Iamonico 2018).