Abstract: The country with the highest taxonomic diversity in the Umbelliferae at the specific level, China possesses 657 species and 44 infraspecific taxa (in 110 genera) of the family, among all countries of the world. The number of endemic species is also considerable – 355. The main center of diversity of the Umbelliferae is SW part of the country, with 357 species, including 126 endemic ones. This center includes Sichuan (277 species and 40 endemics), Yunnan (256 species and 43 endemics), and adjacent parts of Guizhou and Xizang A. R. The largest Umbelliferae genera in Chinese flora are Angelica (49 species), Bupleurum (47), Pimpinella (46), Seseli (39), Hymenidium (37), Heracleum (31), Ferula (27), Pternopetalum (21), and Acronema (21). There are 8 endemic genera of the family in China – Sinolimprichtia, Cyclorhiza, Chaerophyllopsis, Harrysmithia, Sinodielsia, Dickinsia, Melanosciadium, and Changium. Grounded on long-term examination of Chinese and especially foreign herbarium collections and available electronic resources, the checklist includes a new generic arrangement of many species, based on morphological and molecular analyses, revised synonymy, typification and distribution of species, with regard to Chinese provinces and autonomous regions. For 309 accepted specific and infraspecific names and synonyms, lectotypification had been proposed for the first time. 13 new nomenclarural combinations in the genera Kitagawia Pimenov, Ligusticopsis Leute, Oreocomopsis Pimenov & Kljuykov, Seseli L., and Stenocoelium Ledeb. have been proposed.

Abstract: In the end of the XIXth century French botanist A.R. Franchet has described near 60 taxa in the genus Primula L. In many cases, the original descriptions of Primula taxa were based on one or a few different gatherings, comprising several specimens which were sent to different herbaria. Consequently, a high number of isotypes and syntypes can be found for some names. The modern revision of various Primula taxa during the inspection of material in some important herbaria (BM, E, G, K, LE, MHA, MW, NS, NSK, P, W, WU) and using Databases of herbarium collections through internet, have revealed the need to restrict the typifications of several names. 16 taxa were discussed, 14 names of taxa were typified, 11 of them (P. amethystina, P. bella, P. cernua, P. dryadifolia, P. pinnatifida, P. secundiflora, P. septemloba, P. sonchifolia, P. spicata, P. yunnanensis and P. delavayi) were lectotypified here, also five isolectotypes and 51 syntypes were listed.

Abstract: Thulin, M. (2017). Lectotypification of Paramollugo nudicaulis (Molluginaceae). Candollea 72: 31-34. In English, English and French abstracts. The typification of Paramollugo nudicaulis (Lam.) Thulin (≡ Mollugo nudicaulis Lam.) has been problematic as no original material has been found in P. The lectotype designated here, Commerson s.n. from Mauritius, is the single specimen cited by Lamarck in the protologue, and has been located in MPU.

Abstract: Typification is an integral part of social problems construction. This chapter presents a particular social problem: child abuse, stalking, and alcoholism. Histories of particular social problems reveal the importance of subjective judgments. For example, the contemporary feminist movement began to gain public attention around 1970. The movement aimed to get people thinking differently, challenges traditional, taken-for-granted assumptions about women's place in society. Constructionist studies of social problems are relatively new. Thus far, most of the research has taken the form of case studies, in which a sociologist examines how a particular problem came to be constructed. Claims-makers inevitably characterize problems in particular ways: They emphasize some aspects and not others, they promote specific orientations, and they focus on particular causes and advocate particular solutions. While all claims involve typification, and while constructionist research often describes typification, typification is not usually the focus of the analysis.

Abstract: The article provides an analysis of the current situation with lectotypification of the generic name Salsola L. (Chenopodiaceae/Amaranthaceae sensu APG) and recent nomenclatural “resurrection” of the generic name Kali Mill., following molecular phylogenetic findings. Here we present additional arguments in favor of our recent nomenclatural proposal on conservation of the generic name Salsola with S. kali L. as the conserved type. Another option is the typification of Salsola with S. soda L., in which case taxa of the S. kali clade are placed in the genus Kali Mill. ( sensu Akhani & Roalson) in its new circumscription. Positive and negative taxonomic and nomenclatural outcomes of each solution are discussed. Our position regarding the typification of Salsola is reconfirmed. The final decision on the nomenclatural fate of Salsola will be adopted at the XIX International Botanical Congress in 2017, following decisions and recommendations of two committees of the IAPT, which will evaluate our Salsola conservation proposal and report if typifications done by Standley in the North American Flora are supersedable.

Abstract: Summary: We provide information on the discovery of the material known as Kalanchoe rotundifolia (Haw.) Haw. (Crassulaceae) in southern Africa, and clarify the typification of the name Kalanchoe rotundifolia. The plate held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which was previously designated as the lectotype of the name, is in fact a neotype. This plate, published here for the first time, illustrates the staghornleaved form of the species.

Abstract: Nomenclatural types for 18 names actually belonging to the genus Camellia are designated here. The following names are lectotypified: Camellia caudata , C. indochinensis , Dankia langbianensis , Thea bachmaensis , T. brachystemon , T. confusa , T. connata , T. corallina , T. fleuryi , T. gaudichaudii , T. gilbertii , T. krempfii , T. laotica , T. nematodea , T. nervosa , T. pleurocarpa , T. taliensis and T. tonkinensis .

Abstract: Summary: The taxonomy of Kalanchoe brachyloba Welw. ex Britten, a common species in the western, central, northern, and eastern parts of southern Africa, and further north to central Africa, is reviewed. Although having affinities with K. paniculata Harv., K. brachyloba is a distinctive species characterised by its sessile, arched, oblong-lanceolate leaves that are lengthwise-folded upwards along the midrib, and have a velvety feel to the surface. The leaf margins are coarsely and irregularly serrate-lobed to crenate, rarely entire as in K. paniculata, which has flat to variously floppily folded, subcircular to broadly ovate leaves. K. brachyloba is one of the few southern African species of which the flowers are twisted below the free portions (lobes) of the petals. An amplified description and a distribution map are provided for the species. The name K. brachyloba is lectotypified, and the typification of several of its synonyms is clarified.

Abstract: We present a new record to the Brazilian territory (i.e. Tradescantia boliviana), the rediscovery of a species exclusively known from the cultivated type collection (i.e. T. valida), the description of a new taxon (i.e. T. chrysophylla), synonyms for T. crassula and T. boliviana, correct the typification of T. crassula, and designation of a lectotype for T. ambigua and T. ambigua var. pilosula. Furthermore, we present illustrations, comments, distribution maps, and identification keys for the studied taxa.

Abstract: Lycianthes tricolor was first described (in Solanum) in 1813, based on a painting from the Sesse and Mocino expedition to New Spain. In 1904, the similar L. arrazolensis was described (also in Solanum), and since that time, plant collectors have had difficulty separating L. tricolor from L. arrazolensis. Since then four more species allied to L. tricolor and L. arrazolensis have been described: L. surotatensis in 1948, L. jalicensis in 1998, and more recently L. venturana and L. michaelneei in 2014. This article provides a key to separate the six species included in series Tricolores, with updated species descriptions, synonymy, typification, distribution, and illustrations of characteristics (i.e. stamens, seeds, calyces). We include discussion of specimens that belong in series Tricolores, but are difficult to place and require additional study, as well as the uncertain status of L. arrazolensis var. patentipila.

Abstract: An updated checklist of species of Ipomoea L. found in Cuba is presented with analysis of the different elements represented. I. alterniflora Griseb. is defined broadly to include I. obtusata Griseb. and I. excisa Urb. and its differences from the little-known I. cubensis (House) Urb. are discussed. I. calophylla C. Wright ex Griseb. is reinstated as the correct name for the species generally known as I. lacteola House. I. praecox C. Wright is recognised as a distinct species from I. argentifolia A. Rich. and images are provided to help distinguish the two species. I. flavopurpurea Urb. and I. dajabonensis Alain are shown to be conspecific with I. longeramosa Choisy, whose disjunct distribution is mapped and discussed. The little-known I. montecristina Hadac is described and illustrated and the cited collections show it to be locally common in the Guantanamo region. I. microdonta J. R. I. Wood & Scotland is described as new from Camaguey in central Cuba. Eight species endemic to Cuba collected by Ekman and described by Urban in 1924 – 25 are evaluated but only two, I. balioclada Urb. and I. erosa Urb., are deemed to warrant recognition as distinct endemic species. The origin and typification of I. horsfalliae Hook. are discussed and an epitype designated. Cultivated plants named I. horsfalliae occur in many tropical countries including Cuba but their extreme variation suggests hybrid origin. Four species from Jamaica, I. rubella House, I. lineolata Urb., I. carmesina Proctor and the Jamaican plant called I. horsfalliae are treated as synonyms of a variable I. lineolata, which is endemic to the island. I. saxicola Proctor is treated as var. saxicola J. R. I. Wood & Scotland of I. ternata Jacq. I. cyanantha Griseb. is treated as a synonym of I. lindenii M. Martens & Galeotti. Lectotypes are designated for I. cyanantha, I. lindenii, I. praecox, I. punctata C. Wright, I. geranioides Meisn. and I. grisebachii Urb.

Abstract: This paper addresses the typification of two Navicula Bory species described by H.P. Gandhi along with a transfer to the genus Luticola D.G.Mann. The species described are Luticola jogensi s comb. nov., stat. nov. and Luticola gandhii comb. nov., nom. nov., stat. nov. Both species were encountered in similar aerophilic habitats from the Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot from the Indian subcontinent. Light and electron microscopy observations and notes on distribution for both taxa, are presented.

Abstract: Various names have been used for Assam tea and they are typified here. The currently widely used name, Camellia sinensis var. assamica, is a combination based on Thea viridis var. assamica, not “T. assamica” because the latter was never validly published. Two earlier published names, C. theifera and T. cochinchinensis, and two later ones, C. tenuistipa and T. yersinii, may represent the same taxon and are treated as synonyms of T. viridis var. assamica because the latter has priority at the rank of variety and therefore is the correct name for Assam tea.

Abstract: Araucaria goroensis R.R.Mill & Ruhsam sp. nov., a new monkey puzzle species from New Caledonia, is described and illustrated with photographs from the field and from herbarium specimens. Previously confused with Araucaria muelleri, it is more similar to A. rulei. It is distinguished from the latter species by its larger leaves, microsporophylls without a shouldered base, and shorter female cone bracts. It occurs in a very limited area of south-east New Caledonia, where its existence is threatened by nickel mining. Using the guidelines of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, we propose an assessment of Endangered for the new species and reassess Araucaria muelleri also as Endangered. A key to the seven species in the ‘large-leaved clade’ of New Caledonian species of Araucaria is given. The name Eutassa latifolia de Laub. is synonymised with Araucaria muelleri, and the recent typification of the latter name by Vieillard 1276 is rejected. Detailed reasoning is given for these nomenclatural acts.

Abstract: Verbascum aspinum is introduced as a new synonym of V. stachydiforme. V. songaricum subsp. subdecurrens (Scrophulariaceae) is reported for the first time from North and Northwest Iran. Distribution maps are provided for Iran.

Abstract: The name Thymus dalmaticus var carstiensis, basionym of Th carstiensis, is here lectotypified This taxon is currently regarded as the hybrid between Th longicaulis and Th pulegioides or as a synonym of Th serpyllum A morphological comparison among Th dalmaticus var carstiensis and its putative parental species are performed A detailed morphological description and information about habitat, phenology, distribution and taxonomy are provided Furthermore, Th carstiensis is here recorded for the first time from Slovenia

Abstract: Based on an assessment of the illustrations published in the travel account of Leonhard Rauwolf and the correspond‐ing specimens collected by him between 1573 and 1575 in the Near East, lectotypes are designated for the Linnaean names Aristolochia maurorumandRheum ribes , which have not been typified previously.

Abstract: As a precursor of taxonomic revision of genus Parnassia , we present here the most current list of taxa. Parnassia currently has 61 species, 2 subspecies, 11 varieties and 1 forma, 76 synonyms and 8 invalid names, for a total of 159 names (autonyms not counted). Lectotypes are designated for 24 names and the correct author citation of P. ornata is formalized.

Abstract: An unusual new species of Bidens (Asteraceae) from Brazil is described and its placement within the genus is elucidated by phylogenetic analysis of ITS sequences The new species, described as Bidens campanulata, is distinct in the genus based on its broadly campanulate corolla limb with long lobes, an extremely reduced involucre (shorter than the flower length), and the absence of awns on the pappus This study presents a taxonomic treatment of the species of Bidens with discoid capitula endemic to the Brazilian Cerrado, including a key to the species, typification, and information on conservation status

Abstract: Flemingia sootepensis Craib (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) has been collected from the Western Ghats. This paper is the first report of the species from India. In addition, the binomial F. sootepensis is lectotypified, and a detailed description and colour photos are provided to facilitate identification of this species.

Abstract: A comprehensive nomenclatural study including dates of valid publication, etymology and original spellings of the names Boletus “emilei”, Boletus “crokipodius” and Boletus “le-galiae” led us to correct them in accordance with the current Melbourne Code. Consequently, any current name based on these incorrect basionyms also has to be corrected. The original epithet emilei has been corrected by many authors, but never to its correct spelling emileorum according to the data of the protologue. As for the epithet crokipodium, all authors consulted have corrected it to crocipodium without any explanation, and its correct etymology has never been conveniently explained after its original publication by Letellier. We also provide good evidence on the correct date of publication of this name, always misdated in the literature. The epithet le-galiae (with a hyphen), unanimously corrected to legaliae has been very recently resurrected, but according to our nomenclatural study the correct spelling is legaliae. The valid publication and taxonomic status of the current combinations Leccinellum crocipodium, Baorangia emileorum, and Rubroboletus legaliae have also been studied. Finally, all the previous typifications of the three names have been revisited and we conclude that those of Boletus crocipodius and Boletus emileorum have not been effective and, therefore, a new typification is carried out here.

Abstract: Four species, including one newly described, of Japanese cleistocarpous species of Weissia (Pottiaceae): W. exserta , W. japonica , W. kiiensis and W. parajaponica sp. nov. are recognized based on molecular phylogenetic inference and morphological reassessment. For each species, typification, description, distribution, illustrations and photographs are presented, and a key to the species is included. Rapid sporophyte modifications in Weissia and monophyletic positions of these four species are supported by the analysis using concatenated chloroplast rbcL and rps4 gene sequences. A lectotype is designated for W. controversa which is the type species of the genus, and a new combination, W. loncophylla is proposed for Trachycarpidium lonchophyllum .

Abstract: Tragopogon dshimilensis K. Koch is endemic to Turkey. This neglected species had been known from the original collection and was not included in the Flora of Turkey. Recently it was recollected from its type locality (A8 Rize: Cimil) and several adjacent localities. Based on two authentic specimens deposited at P and B, as well as new collections from Eastern Anatolia, an emended description and typification of T. dshimilensis are presented here, and its conservation status is also indicated.

Abstract: The genus Juniperus Linnaeus (1753: 1038) (Cupressaceae Gray, nom. cons. ) is a major component of arid and semi-arid tree/shrub ecosystems throughout the Northern Hemisphere (Thorne 1972, Adams 2004, 2008, 2014, Farjon 2005). The genus is monophyletic (Adams 2004, 2008, 2014, Little 2006, Mao et al . 2010), and three monophyletic sections are currently recognized: J . sect. Caryocedrus Endlicher (1847: 2) , with one species in the Mediterranean; J . sect. Juniperus, with nine species in East Asia and the Mediterranean plus the circumboreal J. communis Linnaeus (1753: 1040); and J. sect. Sabina Spach (1841: 291), with 56 species distributed in southwestern North America, Asia and the Mediterranean region, with outliers in Africa and the Canary Islands.