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Issue: Vol. 316 No. 2: 4 August 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-04
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.316.2.2
Page range: 121–137
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species and four new records of Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) from China

Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS, Zolotodolinskaya st. 101, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China;
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China;
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China;
Altay Prefecture, Forest Science Institute, Altay, China;
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS, Zolotodolinskaya st. 101, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia;
Barnaul State University, Lenin st. 51, Barnaul, 656049, Russia;
Department of Plant Physiology, Biological Faculty, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119234, Russia;
Department of Higher Plants, Biological Faculty, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119234, Russia;
Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 27, Kraków31-501, Poland.
Aquilegia distribution eastern Asia morphology seed ornamentation taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Two new species, Aquilegia xinjiangensis and A. hebeica from northern China, are here described and illustrated. Additionally four species, A. amurensis, A. flabellata, A. kamelinii and A. vicaria are recorded for the country for the first time. The identification key and diagnostic characters of all Aquilegia representatives from China including the newly described and recorded species are provided and discussed.