Circaea alpina L. subsp. micrantha ( Skvortsov 1977: 36 ) Boufford (1982: 959)

Luo, Yike & Xie, Lei, 2023, A checklist of Onagraceae in the Pan-Himalaya region, Phytotaxa 597 (4), pp. 245-268 : 251

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scientific name	Circaea alpina L. subsp. micrantha ( Skvortsov 1977: 36 ) Boufford (1982: 959)
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2.1c. Circaea alpina L. subsp. micrantha ( Skvortsov 1977: 36) Boufford (1982: 959) View in CoL View at ENA .

≡ Circaea micrantha A.K.Skvortsov. View in CoL

Type:— CHINA. Gansu: at the temple of Tcheibsen-hit, 2743 m, 1901, V. Ladygin 514 ( LE) .

Distribution: —U Yarlung Zangbo, M Yarlung Zangbo, L Yarlung Zangbo, C Nepal, E Nepal, W Nepal, Tangut, S Hengduan, N Hengduan.

Note: —This subspecies can be recognized by its translucent leaves with cordate leaf bases. Individuals of this subspecies sometimes also have purple pigment on their fruit hairs ( Boufford 1982). Although Skvortsov (1977) stated in the protologue that the type is stored in LE, the type status is still dubious because we cannot guarantee the existence of duplicates. So, we leave this issue open for further studies.

References

Boufford, D. E. (1982) The systematics and evolution of Circaea (Onagraceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 69 (4): 804 - 994. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 2398997

Skvortsov, A. K. (1977) On several east Asian species of the genus Circaea (Onagraceae). Byulleten' Glavnogo Botanicheskogo Sada 103: 35 - 39.