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Issue: Vol. 652 No. 4: 12 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.652.4.1
Page range: 249-260
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Transferring Peucedanum macilentum (Apioideae, Apiaceae) to Ligusticopsis based on morphological and molecular evidences

School of Pharmaceutical Science and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China
School of Pharmaceutical Science and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China
School of Pharmaceutical Science and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China
School of Pharmaceutical Science and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China
Yunnan Academy of Forestry and Grassland, Kunming 650201, China. Gaoligong Mountain, Forest Ecosystem, Observation and Research Station of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650225, China. Yunnan Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecological Security of Gaoligong Mountain, Kunming 650506, China.
School of Pharmaceutical Science and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China. Yunnan College of Modern Biomedical Industry, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China.
Apiaceae Ligusticopsis new combination Peucedanum macilentum Eudicots

Abstract

Peucedanum macilentum is a less-studied species endemic to China, previously assigned to the genus Kitagawia. To elucidate its taxonomic affinity, morphological and molecular analyses were conducted. Morphologically, Peucedanum macilentum resembles Ligusticopsis species in several diagnostic characters of the stem base clothed in fibrous sheaths, pinnate bracteoles, conspicuous calyx teeth, strongly dorsally compressed fruits, as well as more vittae on the commissure. Phylogenetic analyses of nrDNA ITS and plastome sequences further reveal that P. macilentum is distant from Kitagawia but nested within Ligusticopsis. Therefore, in the basis of the morphological and molecular evidences, Peucedanum macilentum is transferred into Ligusticopsis and a new combination, Ligusticopsis macilenta, is proposed.

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