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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-08-14
Page range: 159–161
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 15

A new Disporopsis (Asparagaceae) transferred from Polygonatum

TENN Herbarium, University of Tennessee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 37996
Asparagaceae Disporopsis Polygonatum Monocots Vietnam China

Abstract

The recent description of a Disporopsis Hance (1883: 278) (Asparagaceae), D. fansipanensis J.M.H.Shaw, B.Wynn-Jones & V.D.Nguyen in Shaw (2013: 27), from Vietnam and adjacent SW China is a superfluous name for a species that has long resided as a synonym of D. pernyi (Hua 1892: 472) Diels (1900: 249). The above cited authors provided a description, but did not provide a comparative diagnosis to which species he thought that it was most similar to, though he did say that D. fansipanensis probably accounted for the treatment of D. pernyi in Vietnam (Liang & Tamura 2000). Experience with living collections of both species and collections of D. fansipanensis at MO and PE (acronym following Thiers 2015) reveal that it is not synonymous with D. pernyi, but has an older available name.