Circaea alpina Linnaeus (1753: 9)

Luo, Yike & Xie, Lei, 2023, A checklist of Onagraceae in the Pan-Himalaya region, Phytotaxa 597 (4), pp. 245-268 : 250

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.597.4.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7958618

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD5F66-FFE1-E154-3DCD-BE2EFA114F18

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Plazi

scientific name

Circaea alpina Linnaeus (1753: 9)
status

 

2.1. Circaea alpina Linnaeus (1753: 9) View in CoL View at ENA .

Lectotype (designated by Boufford 1982):— Herb. Linn. No. 25.2 ( LINN digital image).

Distribution: —U Yarlung Zangbo, M Yarlung Zangbo, L Yarlung Zangbo, Yarlung Zangbo-Brahmaputra, S Hengduan, N Hengduan, also widely distributed in Eurasia and North America.

Note: — Circaea alpina has six subspecies widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere ( Boufford 1982). Three of them are found in the Pan-Himalaya region.

Key to subspecies of Circaea alpina View in CoL View at ENA in the Pan-Himalaya region

1 Leaves thin, pale green, translucent; ovary glabrous at anthesis..................................................... 2.1c. C. alpina subsp. micrantha View in CoL

- Leaves thick, deep green or reddish; ovary pubescent with hooked hairs at anthesis........................................................................2

2 Apical notch 1/4–1/2 length of petal; uncinate hairs of fruit unpigmented........................................2.1a. C. alpina subsp. imaicola View in CoL

- Apical notch 1/5–1/3 length of petal; uncinate hairs of fruit containing purple pigment .............2.1b. C. alpina subsp. angustifolia View in CoL

LINN

Linnean Society of London

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Onagraceae

Genus

Circaea

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