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.
Highlights
The checklist is composed of materials on systematics and phytogeography of Asian Umbelliferae stored in a special computer databases GNOM and ASIUM (Pimenov, Leonov, 1993, 2002, 2004), at the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University
The second place is held by Turkey, with 491 species and 112 genera, i.e. three fourth of those in China, in considerably smaller territory
Some genera of Chinese Umbelliferae remain non monophyletic and critical (Peucedanum, Ligusticum, Tongoloa, Sinocarum, especially Trachydium, and so on)
Summary
The checklist is composed of materials on systematics and phytogeography of Asian Umbelliferae stored in a special computer databases GNOM and ASIUM (Pimenov, Leonov, 1993, 2002, 2004), at the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University Some specific names, adopted in Chinese scientific literature, appeared to be later synonyms of names of species, described previously and kept in foreign herbaria It should be noted, that during the project “Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae” Chinese botanists had rather limited access to Western herbaria and botanical libraries, including the most valuable ones, in our case those in P. Outside of China I studied Chinese Umbelliferae, including type materials in various big herbaria, as P, LE, E, K, BM, W, WU, BP, G, FI, B, UPS, GB, LD, O, TI, KYO, US, and some other They contain a lot of species, described in the time, when Chinese botany was lagging behind.
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