%0 Journal Article
%A WANG Wen-Tsai
%T <em>Elatostema glochidioides</em> is Decidedly Unconspecific with <em>E.famosissimum</em>
%D 2016
%R 10.7525/j.issn.1673-5102.2016.06.001
%J Bulletin of Botanical Research
%P 801-804
%V 36
%N 6
%X In 2011, <em>Elatostema glochidioides</em> W. T. Wang, a species endemic to southern China, was reduced into the synonymy of <em>E.ramosissimum</em> Reinecke, a species endemic to Savaii Island of Oceania. Two species have rather similar habit, but there are important morphological differences. In <em>E.glochidioides</em>, the leaves are adaxially strigose, abaxially glabrous, and trinerved; the pistillate capitula have conspicuous receptacles; the pistillate flower lacks tepals; and the achenes are longitudinally ribbed. In <em>E.ramosissimum</em>, the leaves are adaxially glabrous, abaxially on midrib strigose, and semi-triplinerved; the receptacles of pistillate capitula are very small, inconspicuous; the pistillate flower has 3(-4) tepals; and the achenes are minutely tuberculate. On the basis of the morphological differences just mentioned the specific status of <em>E.glochidioides</em> is restored here.
%U https://bbr.nefu.edu.cn/EN/10.7525/j.issn.1673-5102.2016.06.001