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Issue: Vol. 273 No. 3: 9 September 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-09-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.273.3.10
Page range: 213–214
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

Validation of the name Artemisia anomala var. acuminatissima (Anthemideae, Asteraceae)

State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
Institue of botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210014, People’s Republic of China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China
Artemisia anomala acuminatissima Eudicots

Abstract

Artemisia Linnaeus (1753: 845) is the largest genus of tribe Anthemideae and one of the largest in the sunflower family with 350–500 species (Shultz 2006, Ling et al. 2011). It is widely distributed in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere and has only a few representatives in the southern hemisphere (Shultz 2006). Some species of Artemisia are important medicinal plants such as A. annua Linnaeus (1753: 847), whose component artemisinin is successfully used against malaria (Van der Meersch 2005). Artemisia anomala S.Moore (1875: 227) is another important species used in traditional Chinese medicine (Tan et al. 2010).