2025/09/12 by Huimin Li, Junwen Zhu, Xudong Ma +2 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Phytochemistry and Biological Activities #Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions #Plant chemical constituents analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.3897/phytokeys.262.165363
openalex publication_date 2025/09/12 · openalex created_date 2025/09/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Through field observations of living plants and the analysis of herbarium collections, including type material, it is demonstrated that Sanicula rugulosa can be distinguished from S. subgiraldii by several morphological characteristics, including the presence of slightly tripartite basal leaves (vs. deeply ternate leaves), umbellules that typically contain 5–7 flowers (vs. 4–11), 3–8 staminate flowers (vs. 2–3), generally three fertile flowers (vs. 1–3) and a consistently black stylopodium (vs. a whitish or pale green one). Furthermore, S. astrantiifolia and S. hanyuanensis are not essentially different morphologically from S. rugulosa and we, therefore, propose to treat them as synonyms in this study.