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Issue: Vol. 606 No. 2: 28 Jul. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-07-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.2.3
Page range: 119-132
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Taxonomic studies on the genus Delphinium (Ranunculaceae) from China (XXV): D. jilongense and D. unifolium, another two new synonyms of D. himalayae, a species mainly occurring in Nepal but also in China (southern Xizang)

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 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
Eudicots Delphinium subspathulatum Delphinium tabatae Delphinium viscosum var. sordidum Himalayan flora morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Based on consultation of literature and critical observations on herbarium specimens, we demonstrate that in addition to Delphinium subspathulatum (Ranunculaceae) and D. tabatae which we have previously reduced to the synonymy of D. himalayae, D. jilongense described from China’s southern Xizang (Gyirong) and D. unifolium described from Nepal are also conspecific with this eastern Himalayan species. We therefore place both of them in synonymy with D. himalayae herein.

 

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