Welcome to Bulletin of Botanical Research! Today is Share:

Bulletin of Botanical Research ›› 2003, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (3): 257-260.

    Next Articles

NOTES ON ELATOSTEMA FORST.(URTICACEAE)FROM YUNNAN PROVINCE

WANG Wen-Chai   

  1. Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093
  • Received:2003-02-03 Online:2003-09-15 Published:2016-06-14

Abstract: Three species and one variety of the genus Elatostema from Yunnan Province are described as new. According to the differences enumetated in text between Elatostema menglunense W. T. Wang et G. D. Tao and E.cuspidatumWight, the reduction of E. menglunense into the synonymy of E. cuspidatum is not accepted, and the rather distinct and more primitinve species, E. menglunense is reinstated in the present paper.

Key words: Elatostema, Urticaceae, new taxa, Elatostema menglunense, reinstatement, Yunnan Province