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Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-09
Page range: 207–211
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On the taxonomic identity and lectotypification of Impatiens uncipetala C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f.

Botanical Survey of India, Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Itanagar, INDIA
Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Sportowa 19, 17-230 Białowieża
Department of Botany, St. Joseph’s College, North Point, Darjeeling-734104, West Bengal, India
G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development Post Box: 24, Gangtok, East Sikkim - 737 101, Sikkim, India
Eastern Himalaya Impatiens uncipetala Impatiens yui lectotypification Eudicots

Abstract

Impatiens yui S.H.Huang from NW Yunnan is treated as a synonym of I. uncipetala C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f., known from eastern Himalaya of Nepal, Sikkim, West Bengal and Arunachal Pradesh. The species epithet of the latter is misleading because observations of living specimens do not support the hook-like shape for the appendage of the upper lateral petal. The name I. uncipetala C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f. is lectotypified herewith.