Basionym: Asiasarum sieboldii Miq. f. chungbuensis C.S. Yook & J.G. Kim (1996: 343)
Type (neotype, designated here):— KOREA. Gyeonggi-do: Pocheon-si, Mt. Gwangdeoksan, 294 m, 38°04′51″N, 127°25′18″E, 27 April 2020, H. D.Jang & G. H. Nam 506 (KB! barcode NIBRVP774931)(Fig. 1).
Notes: —Regarding the scientific name of this taxon, Yamaki (Feb. 1996) published the name of Asiasarum sieboldii (Miq.) F. Maek. var. versicolor (1996: 1), and Yook & Kim (Nov. 1996) published the name of Asiasarum sieboldii (Miq.) F. Maek. f. chungbuensis in the same year. Later, Lee & Lee (2000) republished it with a new combination name Asarum versicolor (Yamaki) Y.N. Lee (2000: 19). Oh et al. (2005) made a new combination name Asarum chungbuensis (C.S. Yook & J.G. Kim) B.U. Oh. Since then, A. versicolor (Yamaki) Y.N. Lee has been accepted as the legitimate name, having priority (Yamaji et al. 2007, So & Kim 2008, Oh 2008, National Institute of Biological Resources 2011). In contrast, A. chungbuensis (C.S. Yook & J.G. Kim) B.U. Oh has been treated as a superfluous name of A. versicolor. However, we detected problems regarding the scientific name A. versicolor (Yamaki) Y.N. Lee. Lee (2000) referred to the basionym as “ Asiasarum sieboldii Miq. var. versicolor Yamaki, J. Jap. Bot. 71: 1–10, 1995”; thus, the name has not been validly published because whole pages of the protologue have been cited. According to Article 41.5 of the ICN (Turland et al. 2018), a new combination name is not validly published unless its basionym is clearly indicated, and a full and direct reference is given to its author and place of valid publication, with page or plate reference and date on or after January 1, 1953. In addition, according to Article 11.2 of the ICN, although Asiasarum sieboldii var. versicolor Yamaki was published before A. sieboldii f. chungbuensis C.S. Yook & J.G. Kim, neither of these names have any priority outside the rank at which they were published. Consequently, A. versicolor (Yamaki) Y.N. Lee is unacceptable, and A. chungbuensis (C.S. Yook & J.G. Kim) B.U. Oh is accepted as the legitimate name of this taxon.