Epilobium blinii Léveillé (1909: 338)

Luo, Yike & Xie, Lei, 2023, A checklist of Onagraceae in the Pan-Himalaya region, Phytotaxa 597 (4), pp. 245-268 : 254

3.3. Epilobium blinii Léveillé (1909: 338) .

Type:— CHINA. Yunnan: boggy areas, June 1906, E. E. Maire 393 ( UC) ( Chen et al. 1992) .

= Epilobium forrestii Diels (1912: 254) .

Type:— CHINA. Yunnan: stony, boggy situations in side valleys on the eastern flank of the Dali Range, 2400–3000 m, July–August 1906, G. Forrest 4460 (E, BM000957938!, IBSC0221079, IBSC0221078) ( Chen et al. 1992).

Distribution: —S Hengduan.

Note: —It is an endemic species in South-West China. The species is distinctive by its large flowers and 4-lobed stigma. Plants of Epilobium blinii are sporadic in sphagnum bogs and other kind of permanently wetlands, and seemed to be decimated due to habitat destruction ( Chen et al. 1992).

Chen et al. (1992) recorded that the “ holotype ” of E. blinii was not located and one “isotype” was deposited in UC. However, according to Art. 9.1, we are still not sure the type status of E. E. Maire 393 in UC. So, we leave this issue open for further perusal. For E. forrestii, Chen et al. (1992) noted that G. Forrest 4460 in E is the “ holotype ”. We are also not sure whether there are duplicates in E. In this paper, we do not determine the status of G. Forrest 4460 in E, BM, and IBSC.