Oreocomoides stelliphora Kljuykov, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Kljuykov, Eugene
name: Lavrova, Tatiana
name: Terentieva, Elena
name: Ukrainskaja, Uliana
name: Zakharova, Ekaterina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Apiaceae
Oreocomoides
Oreocomoides stelliphora

description: Oreocomoides stelliphora (Cauwet & Farille in Farille et al. 1985: 549, ill.) Kljuykov comb. nov.
≡ Oreocome stelliphora Cauwet & Farille in Farille et al. 1985: 549. ≡ Oreocomopsis stelliphora (Cauwet & Farille) Pimenov & Kljuykov (1996: 3) (Figs. 2, 10).
Type: NEPAL: C. Nepal, N. Annapurna, high valley of Marsyangdi, upstream from Manang, 3800 m, 18 September 1981, Farille 81467 (holotype KATH; isotypes E00296330!, BM, P). (Fig. 10).
Paratype: NEPAL: C. Nepal, Hymalaya. Muktinath range, spigolo, from the southern slope, around 3850 m, 18 September 1981, Farille 81421 (E00296329!).
Perennial herbs, polycarpic erect glabrous, 10–50 cm high, with taproot. Stems weak, 3–5 mm ⌀, purple, thinribbed, branching in upper part, slightly scabrous under inflorescence. Cauline leaves few; sheath violet, narrow lanceolate, 2–3 (–5) cm long. Leaf blades polymorphic: wide in lower part, primary segments with short petiolules, pinnately dissected into narrow-linear lobes 3–5 (–10) cm long, 1–2 (–3) mm wide; in upper part leaf blades narrow-linear pinnate with entire narrow-linear lobes 5-20 mm long. Bracts (1–) 3–5 extremely polymorphic, linear or pinnate with linear lobes 1–3 (–5) cm. The longest bracts exceed the umbel. Rays 4–15, thin, slightly unequal 3–15 cm long, scabrous. Bracteoles about eight, filiform, elongated, ciliate, 1–2 cm, longer than umbellules. Pedicels approximately 5 mm at fruiting. Flowers 20–40; petals pink, at base with well-developed claw, almost entire, oval, with short incurved apex; calyx teeth prominent, sharply unequal, up to 2 mm long; carpophore is bipartite almost to the base; stylopodia conic; styles short, up to 0.5–1 mm long. Fruits glabrous, almost cylindrical; mericarps slightly dorsally compressed, up to 5 mm long, about 2.5 mm wide, oblong, all ribs similar, narrowly-winged, slightly widened at base, vascular bundles slightly elongated in radial direction; commissure narrow. Secretory ducts between ribs 2–3, number of commissural secretory ducts 4–6, endosperm almost flat at commissural side.
Additional studied specimens: without precise locality, 27 August 1982, P. K. Hajra 73501. INDIA. Chamoli (Himalaya indien): Nanda Devi, Nat. Park, 15 September 1884, J. F. Duthie 2946 (BSD, Determ. 382); Kumaon: above Garbyang, in Kali river, in grassy slopes, 12000 ft, 3 August 1977, G. Miehe 408 (DD). NEPAL. C. Népal: Che Lungpo, nr Sangpa, nord facing in rock (two sheets) (E); Annapurna, Multipath range, spigolo du versant sud, vers 3800 m, 18 September 1981, M. A. Farille 81421 (E, KATH, P); Taglung (S. of Tukucha), Kali Gandaki, Stainton, Sykes & Williams 7951 (BM, E).
description: Published as part of Kljuykov, Eugene, Lavrova, Tatiana, Terentieva, Elena, Ukrainskaja, Uliana & Zakharova, Ekaterina, 2023, Phylogeny and taxonomic review of Oreocomopsis with description of a new genus Oreocomoides (Apioideae, Apiaceae), pp. 1-20 in Phytotaxa 630 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.630.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10361503