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Taxonomic studies of Amomum (Zingiberaceae) in China II: transfer of Hornstedtia tibetica to Amomum and supplementary description of H. hainanensis

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Hornstedtia tibetica was originally described only from fruiting material. On the basis of morphological study of flowering material originating at the type locality, the species is a member of Amomum. This was also confirmed by palynological evidence and a molecular analysis based on ITS region. A new combination Amomum tibeticum is therefore established here, together with a detailed description and colour plate of this species. As previously suspected from the similarity of the original description and type, Hornstedtia arunachalensis is conspecific with A. tibeticum and is therefore synonymised here. The only remaining species of Hornstedtia in China is therefore H. hainanensis, which was also described only from fruiting material. To aid unambiguous understanding of this taxon, we provide a detailed description and colour plate based on recent collections of flowering material near the type locality in Hainan Province, China.

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Photographs by Y.S. Ye and L. Bai; based on X.E. Ye and L. Bai 15040301

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Acknowledgements

We thank the curators of CDRI, GXMI, IBK, IBSC, KUN, SING and PE herbaria for permission to examine and photograph specimens in their care. The first author would like to thank Peng Feng, Cheng Yu-Fen (IBSC) and Dr. Chen Juan (IBSC) for assistance in imaging specimens from IBSC and PE; Hu Xiao-Ying (SCBG) is acknowledged for assisting with the SEM pollen scanning. We thank Dr. Carmen Puglisi (SING) for guidance on molecular analysis and Dr. Nurainas (ANDA) for kindly providing her papers. X.-Y. Ye is grateful to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Singapore Botanic Gardens for supporting the study at SING. The research of X.-Y. Ye and N.-H. Xia was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 31170185); the research of the last author is supported by National Parks Board, Singapore, and by the Czech Science Foundation, GAČR (Grant No. P506/14/13541S). We thank Dr. Mark Newman for extensive language revision of this manuscript.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 723 Xingke Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510650, People’s Republic of China

    Xing-Er Ye & Nian-He Xia

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A, Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

    Xing-Er Ye

  3. Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, People’s Republic of China

    Lin Bai

  4. Horticulture Centre, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, People’s Republic of China

    Yu-Shi Ye

  5. The Herbarium, Singapore Botanic Gardens, National Parks Board, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore, 259569, Republic of Singapore

    Jana Leong-Škorničková

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Ye, XE., Bai, L., Ye, YS. et al. Taxonomic studies of Amomum (Zingiberaceae) in China II: transfer of Hornstedtia tibetica to Amomum and supplementary description of H. hainanensis. Plant Syst Evol 304, 1165–1180 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-018-1539-7

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