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Issue: Vol. 595 No. 1: 3 May 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-05-03
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.595.1.8
Page range: 109-114
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 5

Taxonomic notes on Camellia crassicolumna and its related species (Theaceae)

CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China. College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Panzhou Natural Resources Bureau, Panzhou 553599, Guizhou, China
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Camellia sect. Thea lectotypification morphology taxonomic treatment Eudicots

Abstract

Camellia crassicolumna (Theaceae) was described as an endemic species to southeastern Yunnan, China. In the most recent monograph of Camellia, seven names, including C. crispula, C. atrothea, C. makuanica, C. haaniensis, C. purpurea, C. rotundata, and C. crassicolumna var. shangbaensis, were listed as heterotypic synonyms of C. crassicolumna. Our examination of related specimens reveals that the statement ‘ovariis pilosis’ in the protologue of C. crassicolumna is incongruent with its type specimens whose ovaries are glabrous. The morphological traits of C. crassicolumna resemble C. kwangsiensis var. kwangnanica. Therefore, C. crassicolumna is reduced into C. kwangsiensis var. kwangnanica. The species status of C. crispula is reinstated with C. atrothea, C. makuanica, C. haaniensis, C. purpurea, C. rotundata, and C. crassicolumna var. shangbaensis treated as its heterotypic synonyms. A new combination, C. crispula var. multiplex, is proposed, and the lectotype of C. atrothea is designated here.

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