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Epilobium palustre L.

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3.20. Epilobium palustre L.

Lectotype (designated by Jonsell & Jarvis 2002):—“ Habitat in Europae humidiusculis”, Herb. Linn. No. 486.7 (LINN digital image).

= Epilobium palustre L. var. minimum C.B. Clarke (1879: 586).

Lectotype (designated by Raven 1962a):— PAKISTAN. Kashmir, Ladakh, Deosai, 3950 m, 31 July 1876, Clarke 29816 (K001057566!).

Distribution: —N Pakistan, Jammu & Kashmir, M Yarlung Zangbo, L Yarlung Zangbo, Tangut, S Hengduan, N Hengduan.

Note: —This species is widely distributed across North America and Eurasia (Chen et al. 1992). It is highly variable particularly in plant stature. In the eastern Pan-Himalaya, plants of Epilobium palustre vary greatly in size. In the high elevations, plants are often shorter.

Notes

Published as part of Luo, Yike & Xie, Lei, 2023, A checklist of Onagraceae in the Pan-Himalaya region, pp. 245-268 in Phytotaxa 597 (4) on page 258, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.597.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7958600

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Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Scientific name authorship
L.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Myrtales
Family
Onagraceae
Genus
Epilobium
Species
palustre
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Epilobium palustre (Raven, 1962) sec. Luo & Xie, 2023

References

  • Jonsell, B. & Jarvis, C. E. (2002) Lectotypification of Linnaean names for Flora Nordica (Brassicaceae - Apiaceae). Nordic Journal of
  • Clarke, C. B. (1879) LXII Onagraceae. In: Hooker, J. D. & Clarke, C. B. (Eds.) The Flora of British India, vol. 2. L. Reeve, London, pp. 582 - 590.
  • Raven, P. H. (1962 a) The genus Epilobium in the Himalayan region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Botany 2: 327 - 382.
  • Chen, C. J., Hoch, P. C. & Raven, P. H. (1992) Systematics of Epilobium (Onagraceae) in China. Systematic Botany, Monographs 34: 1 - 209.