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Issue: Vol. 570 No. 2: 27 October 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-10-27
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.570.2.7
Page range: 217-222
Abstract views: 20
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Clarification of the taxonomic and nomenclatural confusion about Arnica japonica L. f. and A. japonica Thunb. (Asteraceae: Senecioneae)

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; 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; Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, 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; Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, 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; Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China; Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden of Guangdong Province, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510650, China
Arnica japonica Asteraceae Gynura japonica Syneilesis palmata Eudicots

Abstract

Arnica japonica L. f. and A. japonica Thunb. have long been controversial about their identities and nomenclature, largely due to the mysterious type material of Arnica japonica L. f. We locate the original material of Arnica japonica L. f., viz., LINN-HS 1322.1, and clarify the misleading description about its leaf form. Arnica japonica L. f. is revealed to be conspecific with A. japonica Thunb. Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes are made accordingly for these two names, and for Gynura japonica and Syneilesis palmata, another two names also involved in this issue. A second-step lectotype of Arnica japonica Thunb. is designated because of the taxonomically mixed material of the original lectotype.

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