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Seven names of Chinese Pedicularis species typified
Author: Yu Wenbin
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Update time: 2015-05-13
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Seven species of Pedicularis (P. batangensis, P. birostris, P. goniantha, P. microphyton, P. princeps, P. rhynchodonta and P. tatsienensis) described by Bureau & Franchet are based on collections made by Prince Henri d’Orléans in 1890. Because these specimens lack collection numbers Bureau & Franchet merely described their provenance in the protologue, which has created much subsequent difficulty for authors seeking to access the types.

 

During revision of Chinese Pedicularis, Dr. Wen-Bin Yu and his collaborators from Kunming Institute of Botany and Kaili University checked the potential type materials conserved at the herbarium of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (P), they designated the lectotype of these names in accordance with the protologue. In addition, based on examination of other specimens of these species conserved at Chengdu Institute of Biology (CDBI), Kunming Institute of Botany (KUN), Institute of Botany (PE), Field Museum of Natural History (F), Harvard University (GH), New York Botanical Garden (NY), Smithsonian Institution (US), they reduced P. przewalskii var. hirsuta H.L.Li as a new synonym of P. przewalskii subsp. microphyton (≡ P. microphyton), and designated the lectotype of P. rhynchodonta f. maxima Bonati.

 

This study entitled “Typification of seven Chinese species of Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae) described by Bureau and Franchet with taxonomic notes” has been published  in Plant Ecology and Evolution.

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