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Issue: Vol. 672 No. 2: 20 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-20
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.672.2.2
Page range: 149-162
Abstract views: 45
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Clematis alopecuros (Ranunculaceae), another new synonym of C. hastata from China

South China National Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
South China National Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization, Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China
South China National Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
South China National Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
morphology new synonymy taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Based on consultation of literature, survey of herbarium specimens (including type material) and observations of living plants in the wild, we demonstrate that Clematis alopecuros (Ranunculaceae), recently described from Zhuxi county in western Hubei, China, is not essentially different from C. hastata in any characters and most readily distinguishable by a unique array of characters in the Chinese Clematis. We therefore place C. alopecuros in synonymy with C. hastata herein.

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