Oreocome sect. Evittatae is described as new to science to accommodate the former Selinum vaginatum from India and Pakistan and a newly described species, O. aegopodioides, from Uttarakhand, India, both without vittae in their mericarps. O. sect. Oreocome is enlarged by two species from Afghanistan, the newly described O. nuristanica, which is related to O. candollei, and O. duriuscula, which is transferred from Selinum. S. stewartii from Afghanistan and Pakistan is transferred to Seseli. Correspondingly three new nomenclatural combinations, O. arguta (for S. vaginatum and the conspecific Levisticum argutum), O. duriuscula and Seseli stewartii, are validated. Our analyses revealed, that the genus Selinum is entirely absent from the Sino-Himalayan region and adjacent Afghanistan. Oreocome in its revised circumscription comprises nine species in two sections.
References
V. G. Alexandrov
& A. V. Klimochkina
1947: Istoria rasvitija osnovnych tipov stroenija plodov zontichnykh [The development of chief structural types in the fruits of umbelliferous plants]. — Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, ser. 1, Fl. Sist Vyssh. Rast. 6: 40–71. Google Scholar
B. S. Aswal
& B. N Mehrotra
1994: Flora of Lahaul Spity, a cold desert of North West Himalaya. — Dehra Dun. Google Scholar
J. Briquet
1924: L'anatomie du fruit et le comportement des bandelettes dans le genre Heracleum. — Candollea 2: 1–62. Google Scholar
C. B. Clarke
1879:
Umbelliferae.
— Pp. 665–720 in:
J. D. Hooker
(ed.), Flora of British India 2. — London. Google Scholar
H. Collett
1921:
Umbelliferae.
— Pp. 204–216 in: Flora Simlensis. A handbook of the flowering plants of Simla and the neighbourhood. — Calcutta & London. Google Scholar
W. B. Dickore
& M. Nüsser
2000: Flora of Nanga Parbat (NW Himalaya, Pakistan). An annotated inventory of vascular plants with remarks on vegetation dynamics. — Englera 19. Google Scholar
M. P. Edgeworth
1845: Descriptions of some unpublished species of plants from North-Western India. — Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1: 252–253. Google Scholar
R. D. Gaur
1999: Flora of the district Garhwal, NW Himalaya (with ethnobotanical notes). — Srinagar. Google Scholar
I. C. Hedge
& K. H. Rechinger
1987:
Cortia.
— Pp. 362–364 in:
K. H. Rechinger
(ed.), Flora iranica
162. — Graz. Google Scholar
M. K. Kaul
1975: Contribution to the umbellifers of Kashmir. — J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 72: 692–715. Google Scholar
K. K. Khanna
, V. Mudgal
, B. P. Uniyal
& J. R. Sharma
1999: Dicotyledonous plants of Uttar Pradesh: a checklist. — Dehra Dun. Google Scholar
G.-H. Leute
1969: Untersuchungen über den Verwandtschaftkreis der Gattung Ligusticum L. (Umbelliferae). 1. Teil. — Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 73: 55–98. Google Scholar
G.-H. Leute
1970: Untersuchungen über den Verwandtschaftskreis der Gattung Ligusticum L. (Umbelliferae). 2. Teil. — Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 74: 457–519. Google Scholar
J. Lindley
1835: Notes upon some of the Himalayan Umbelliferae. — Pp. 232–233 in:
J. F. Royle
, Illustrations of the botany and other branches of natural history of the Himalayan mountains and of the flora of Cashmere 1. — London. Google Scholar
P. K. Mukherjee
& L. Constance
1993:
Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) of India. — New Delhi. Google Scholar
E. Nasir
1972:
Umbelliferae.
— In:
E. Nasir
& S. I. Ali
(ed.), Flora of West Pakistan 20. — Rawalpindi. Google Scholar
M. G. Pimenov
, E. V. Kljuykov
& T. A. Ostroumova
2001: Towards a clarification in the taxonomy of Sino-Himalayan species of Selinum L. s.l. (Umbelliferae). The genus Oreocome Edgew. —
Willdenowia
31: 101–124. Google Scholar
M. G. Pimenov
, E. V. Kljuykov
& T. A. Ostroumova
2003: A revision of Conioselinum Hoffm. (Umbelliferae) in the Old World. —
Willdenowia
33: 353–377. Google Scholar
M. G. Pimenov
& L. I. Sdobnina
1975: K taksonomii roda Seseli L. I. Revizia roda Libanotis Hill (Umbelliferae) [On the taxonomy of the genus Seseli L. I. Revision of the genus Libanotis Hill (Umbelliferae)]. — Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 60: 1108–1122. Google Scholar
M. A. Rau
1962: Flowering plants and ferns of North Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, India. — Bull. Bot. Surv. India 3: 215–251. Google Scholar
K. H. Rechinger
1987:
Ligusticum, Selinum.
— Pp. 355–362 in:
K. H. Rechinger
(ed.), Flora iranica 162. — Graz. Google Scholar
K. H. Rechinger
& H. Riedl
1963:
Umbelliferae.
— [In:
M. Köie
& K. H. Rechinger
(ed.), Symbolae afghanicae]. — Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. 13(4): 27–135. Google Scholar
R. R. Stewart
1972: An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir. — Karachi. Google Scholar
S. G. Tamamschjan
1945: O tsennosti nekotorykh diagnosticheskikh prisnakov v sem zontichnykh [On value of some diagnostic characters in fam. Umbelliferae]. — Sovetsk. Bot.13(4):3–12. Google Scholar
K. M. Valiejo-Roman
, V. S. Shneyer
, T. H. Samigullin
, E. I. Terentieva
& M. G. Pimenov
2006: An attempt to clarify taxonomic relationships in “Verwandtschaftskreis der Gattung Ligusticum” (Umbelliferae-Apioideae) by molecular analysis. —
Pl. Syst. Evol.
257: 25–43. [
CrossRef
] Google Scholar
