Corispermum lhasaense Tsien & C.G.Ma in Kung & al., Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16(1): 119 (1978)

Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Liu, Pei-Liang & Kushunina, Maria, 2019, Taxonomic revision of Chenopodiaceae in Himalaya and Tibet, PhytoKeys 116, pp. 1-141 : 87-89

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.116.27301

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scientific name

Corispermum lhasaense Tsien & C.G.Ma in Kung & al., Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16(1): 119 (1978)
status

 

6. Corispermum lhasaense Tsien & C.G.Ma in Kung & al., Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16(1): 119 (1978)

Lectotype

(Sukhorukov, designated here): CHINA, Xizang, Lhasa, the Sera Monastery, Liushahe river, in riverway of screes and grits, 3760 m a.s.l., 10 Sep 1960, Fu Guo-Xun 658 (PE00024043! isolectotypes LE01013344! PE00540403! PE00540404!).

Description.

Annual up to 20 cm, glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate, up to 3.0 × 0.3 cm long. Inflorescence dense, 3-5 cm long. Inflorescence elongated. Bracts oblong to ovoid, moderately recurved or sometimes appressed to the stem, completely cov ering the fruit. Fruit 3.8-4.7 × 3.0-3.5 mm, glabrous (sometimes with dark-brown tanniniferous cells), thick (0.75-0.85 mm) with well-developed wing 0.65-0.90 mm (especially large near the fruit apex; Fig. 36A View Figure 36 ). Wing irregularly toothed, emarginate, triangular in cross-section. Pericarp without detachments from the seed coat. Sclereids in the medium fruit part consist of 1-3 cell layers orientated parallel to the fruit axis.

Habitat.

Screes and sandy riverbeds, 3000-4000 m a.s.l.

Phenology.

Flowering: July-September; fruiting: August-October.

Distribution.

See Fig. 35 View Figure 35 .

Specimens examined.

CHINA: Xizang: Xigazê Prefecture: Gyangtse, Jul/Sep 1904, H.J. Walton s.n. (BM).

General distribution.

Endemic to South Tibet.