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Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-29
Page range: 103–110
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Ranunculus angustisepalus (Ranunculaceae) is an Oxygraphis and conspecific with O. delavayi

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, Guangdong, China
New synonymy Ranunculus sect. Stenoglossa Ranunculus subgen. Stenoglossa taxonomy Xizang Eudicots

Abstract

We demonstrate that Ranunculus angustisepalus (Ranunculaceae) described from Bomi in southeastern Xizang (Tibet) is conspecific with Oxygraphis delavayi, a species widely distributed in northern Sichuan, southeastern Xizang, and northwestern Yunnan, China. We therefore place the former in synonymy within the latter. We also reduce Ranumculus subgen. Stenoglossa and R. sect. Stenoglossa, both with R. angustisepalus as their type, to the synonymy of the genus Oxygraphis.