Historical note on the taxonomy of the genus Delphinium L. (Ranunculaceae) with an amended description of its floral morphology

Felipe Espinosa; Thierry Deroin; Valéry Malécot; Wei Wang; Myreya Pinedo; Sophie Nadot; Florian Jabbour

doi:10.5252/adansonia2021v43a

Historical note on the taxonomy of the genus Delphinium L. (Ranunculaceae) with an amended description of its floral morphology

Felipe Espinosa
, Thierry Deroin
, Valéry Malécot
, Wei Wang
, Myreya Pinedo
, Sophie Nadot
, Florian Jabbour

Department of Biology

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Abstract

Since its first valid description by Linnaeus in 1753, the genus Delphinium L. has undergone numerous taxonomical changes that we synthesize here. The knowledge of the taxonomic history of the genus is essential to clarify its circumscription. For this purpose, we outline its pre-Linnaean taxonomic history, from Dioscorides' translated works dating back to the 16th century to Tournefort's classification in 1694. Regarding its post-Linnaean history, we discuss the three different lectotypifications proposed during in the 20th century. In addition, we amend the description of the typical flower of Delphinium by including the characteristics of the species D. ecalcaratum S.Y. Wang & K.F. Zhou and D. turcicum (H.Duman, Vural, Aytaç & Adigüzel) Espinosa with actinomorphic flowers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9-18
Number of pages	10
Journal	Adansonia
Volume	43
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5252/adansonia2021v43a
State	Published - 25 Jan 2021

Keywords

Delphinium
actinomorphy
floral morphology
pre-Linnean classification
zygomorphy

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