A Preliminary Study on Symplocos of China (Cont.)-文献传递-植物通论文库

作者：Wu Young-Fen

期刊：植物分类学报 1986年 4期

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Abstract:

This paper is a preliminary study on the morphology, taxonomy and geog-

raphy of Symplocaceae, following the system of H. P. Nooteboom and H. Handel-Maz-

zetti et E. Peter-Stibal, who divided the genus into two subgenera according to the floral

characteristics. But I disagree with Nooteboom‘s unduly broad specific concept, and

adopt Handel-Mazzetti et Peter-Stibal‘s concept, which usually treated the species of

this family according to their habitats in regions in a relatively narrow sense. The ge-

nus is divided in the present paper into two subgenera, six sections, among which two

are new. Nine new species and three new varieties are described in this paper. Discus-

sions on some taxa are also presented.

The family Symplocaceae consists of 300 species in the whole world. They are dis-

tributed mainly in tropical and subtropical Asia, Oceania and America. In China there

are about 77 species widely distributed in the south-western and south-eastern parts,

with only one species, namely Symplocos paniculata (Thunb.) Miq. extending northward

to north-eastern part.

A Preliminary Study on Symplocos of China (Cont.)