Polystichum huashanicola (W.M.Chu & Z.R.He) Li Bing Zhang, 2012

Zhang, Li-Bing, 2012, Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the fern genus Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) in China, Phytotaxa 60 (1), pp. 57-60 : 58

Polystichum huashanicola (W.M.Chu & Z.R.He) Li Bing Zhang , stat. nov.

Basionym:— Polystichum daguanense Ching ex L.L.Xiang var. huashanicola Chu & He (2000: 257 , as “ huashanicolum ”). Type:— CHINA. Yunnan: Zhengxiong Xian , Huashan , in fissures of limestone under shrub forest, 1950 m, 31 August 1991, W. M . Chu & G. F . Zhang 24241 (holotype PYU!) .

This species is treated as a variety of Polystichum daguanense Ching ex L.L.Xiang by Zhu & He (in Kung et al. 2001), however, the two taxa are different morphologically (Zhang & Barrington, in press). They do not seem to be closely related.

Polystichum huashanicola occurs in northeastern Yunnan, China.

Polystichum kangdingense H.S.Kung & Li Bing Zhang , sp. nov. Type :— CHINA. Sichuan: Kangding County, 2400 m, 28 August 1981, Xian-Xu Kong (Hsian-Shiu Kung) 6189 (holotype CDBI!, isotype PE!) .

Based on the full Latin diagnosis in Kung & Zhang (1998: 254). This species was not validly published there since no holotype is provided. By providing the type information we hereby validate this name.

Illustration: Kung & Zhang (1998: 253, pl. 3: f. 1–4.)

Diagnosis: Kung & Zhang (1998: 254) ‘ Species affinis Polysticho submit Christ, sed laminis majoribus, bipinnatis, paleis stipitum magis latioribus, ovatis differt ’.