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ISSN 1346-7565 ActaPhytotax.Geobot. 58(2f3)97:-99(2007)
NomenclaturalChanges inKalimeris:towards Revision
a ofAsian
Aster AlliedGenera
and
AKIKO SOEJIMAi and MASASHI IGARI2
iBiologtcal SbienceG,raduateSbhoolofSlrieOnscakea,PFefectureUhiversicS"ahai, 599-8531,.lapan;
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Kdlimeris (Asterac eias ae s)mal1 eastern Asian genus closely related to Aster .It is distinguish efdrom
Aster mainly by it sshorter pappus. Although the lengt hof the pappus has been considered to be a geod
diagnosti ccharacteg the distincti hoans not always been clear and the boundary between them has long
been controyersial arnong botanist sM.olecular data suggest that the short pappus might haye arisen in
parall eiln differe netvolutionary line sin Aster ,We therefore consider it proper to merge Kdlimen' swith
Aster ,Four new combinations are proposed here A:ste rincisu Fsisch .var, macrodon (Vani &o Ht, Lev.)
Soejirn &a Igari A,, inctic uLs. vart coltintas (Hanc eSo)ejirn a& Igari A,. indieu Ls, var: stenole}pis CHand.-
Mazz, )Soejim a& Igari a,nd A. yomena (Kita mHo,n)da var. angustij?)iius (Naka Sio)ejim a& Igari,
Key vvords: Aster, Asteraceae, East Asia, Kttlimeris, new comhination
Aster (tri Absteereae ,Asteraceae )i,ncludes viding the genus into several subgenera or sections
about 400 species distribut ewiddely in temperate (Bentha 1m873, Hoflmann 1890, Hara 1952, Grau
regions worldwide. Within the tribe Astereae ,sub- 1977, Jones & Ybung 1983, Ito & Soejima 1995,
tribe Asterina eis rather easily distinguish efdrom Soejima & Peng 1998, Pak 1999) .Except fbr K.
others by the fla to,pen white, pink or purpl eligules. miqueliana, which they considered to belon gto
There are, however r,nany small genera within the another section ofAster, Ito & Soejima (1995),
the delimitations based DNA
subuibe where generic are ambigu- on molecular analyses using chloroplast
ous and are a source of disagreement among (It eto aL 1995) ,placed the species ofKtxlimeris in
botanist sIn. Japan and adjacent regions, Kitamura Aster sect. Asteromoea Makine in thei rtreatment in
(1937 r)ecognized three small genera ,Kblimeris the Flora oflapan .Later ,in their revision of
Cass. ,HleteFzlpupp Luesss. ,and (lymnaste rKitam, KLilimeri Gsu, & Hoch (1997 t)reate dthe species of
(iiiMiyamayom Keintaam.) ,as segregates ofAster Aster in section Asteromoea as KdlimeTis, but leav-
L. The thre egenera were distinguish efdrom each ing K. miqueliana in Aster.
other mainly by pappus lengt Khi.tamura' tsreatment In addition to the differe ngetneric treatments,
has been accepted by many subsequent authors Gu & Hoch (1997 d)iffere dfrom Ito & Soejima
(Kitamu 1r9a57, Ohwi 1965, Hu 1967, Ling et ai, (199 5i)n the usage of infraspeci friancks. Ito &
1985, Gu & Hoch 1997) ,but other authors have Soejima (1995 u)sed the rank of variety for infra-
retained these genera in Aster s. Iat ,while subdi- specific taxa, while Gu & Hoch (1997 u)sed sub-
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species. Except fbr these difference tsh,e taxonom- within Aster in sect. Asteromoea Makino. Although
ic boundarie srecognized by Gu & Hoch (1997)ther eis a tendency ofthe larg egenus Aster is being
and Ito & Soejima (1995 m)ostly coincide, except split (Noye s& Rieseberg 1999, Brouille tet al.
for Aster incisus (iiiKalim ienrciissa). Ito & 2001, Semple et al, 2001), Kdlimeris is mono-
Soejima (1995 p)lus earlier Japanese botanists phyletic with Aster s. str. and should be include din
(Koidzu m19i23, Kitamura 1937, 1957, Hara 1952, Aster (It eot al. 1998) ,We therefb rperopose a new
Ohwi 1965) treatedA, incisus Fisch. d,escribe don combination as fbllows T,hree additional new com-
the basi sofa specimen collected in Siberia ,Russia, binatien sare also proposed to accommodate our
as occurring in Japan as well as in Siberia C,hina placement of the continental species of Ktxlimeris
and Korea. Gu & Hoch (1997 )h,owever, treated within Aster.
K. incisa as being restricted to the Asian continent
and distinguish tehde Japanese plant sas K, yomena 1. Aster incisu sFisch ,vaz macrodon (Vani &o Ht.
(Kitam K.i)tam. subsp. angustij2)lia (Naka iH). Yl Lev. )Soej ima & Igari c,omb. nov
Gu. Basionym: Aster macrodbn Vaniot & H. Lev. ,Bull.
Acad.Int.Geogr:Bot.20:141(1909)-.Kkelimeris
According to Gu & Hoch (1997 )Kd,limeris
incisa and K. yomena subsp. angustij2)lia diffe irn iGnuc,isAa nsnub.sp.Mi smascroouclroniBot ,(VGaarndi, o&8t 4H:.7 L7e8v.() 1H9, 9Y7l).
branchin pgatter nand rhizome morphology; the IJIp us .KO REA, Che ju Is lan d(Q ue lpa r2t5) S,ep,
fbrmer has relatively stiff branche sles sthan 25 cm 1906, UL fuurie 1071 (hol oE;- iso- BM, KYO).
long and condensed rhizomes no longer than 1 cm,
wheteas the latt ehras flexib lberanche sup to 40 cm 2. Aster indicus L. var. collinus (Hanc eS)oejima &
Iong and rhizomes up to 1O cm long .They reported Igari c,omb. nov.
the confusion over these two taxa had been due te Basionym: Boltoni aindic aev , coilina Hance, Ann.
their relatively long pappus, which characterizes Sci. Nat. Bot. ser, 5, 5: 219 (1866 )-, Kblimeris
bKo. tphi onfnthaemt.pt d Goaund & K H, oycohme n(a19 r9na7 ian)llsyo donis tthien glueinsghtehd i(1n9H:d ai34cn0 avc a(Hre,.1 ) Y9a 4 ,G 3c uo)-,l l.Ai nnKadn l.( iMmHieasrisnsoc ui ernK )idBiitecata m .sG.ub a,sJpr,, dJ ,a8cpo4l. l: Bi7noat8,9
of the pappus bristle sA.ccording to them (Gu & (1997 )1],tpu sC.HINA, Guangdong :Guangzhou,
Hoch 1997) ,the pappus bristl eofsKL pinnatiji dartei Oet .1859, Hdnce 5195 (lect BoM-, designate dby
O,2-O. 3mm long and shorter than those ofK yome- Gu & Hoch [1997]).
na. They therefbre transferre dK, pinnatij7d avar.
angt{stij?)lia to K, yomena (a ssubsp. angustij?)lia), 3. Aster indicu sL. var. stenolepis (Hand.-Mazz,)
is butdiffers Soejima& Igari,
which morphologically sirnilar, slighr- comb. noM
ly in pappus length and branch flexibilit yT.hey Basionym: Asteromoea indic avarL stenoZEzpis Hand.-
Mazz., Acta HortiGothob. 7:225 (1938).-
distinguish seubdsp. angvnstijblia from subsp, yome-
na by the pappus bristl emsore than O.4 mm long KKtiitlaimm.e,Jr.i Jsianpd.iBcoat .va1r.9 :s3t4en0ol(ep1is94 3()H-.anKddl.i-mMearizsz,)
bytheflexiblberanches
and of subsp. angustij2)lia, indica subsp. stenolepis (Hand.-Maz Hz.. Y)L Gu,
In subsp. yomena the pappus bristl earse les sthan Ann, Missouri Bot. Gard. 84: 791 (1997 )1.)tpus.
O.4 mm long and the branches are stiff CHINA, Fajian :Yenping Xian, 4 Aug, 1924, H.
We reached the same conclusion as Gu & Hl Chung 2895 (hel oW;- iso- BM, MO, PE).
Hoch (1997 t)hrough our reeent reinvestigation of Klrilimer iisndie af .gracili sJ. Q. Fu, Bull .Bot. Res.,
KJraaplainmeesre pi lsiann tJs adpiafnf e arfnrdo mo Kn, tihnec icsouns tainnden tar,e cTohn-e HXIai9ra5bn9i,, nBZ 3i. :k Xo1 uZ1-I2 gt(oa1nngg9 s18h4e73 ,9IZ)Jhi .ut(p huy osuC.alH nWIobUNa-KA, ),9. 0G0 amn,s u9 :WSeenp.
specific with KL yomena, but we prefe rto treat them
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4. Aster yomena (Kita mH.on)da var. angusti- Hu, S. Y. 1967. The Compositae ofChina, VL Quar tJ.,
foliu s(Naka iS)oejjma & Igari ,comb. noy [[biwa nMus. 20: 1-77.
Basionym: Klilimer piisnnatijfda var, angustijblia Ito ,M. & A, Soejirn a1,995. Aster. Ih: Iwatsuki ,K., T.
Nakai, BulL Natl ,Sci .Mus. [Ibkyo 33: 26 (1953). Yarnasaki, D. E. Bouffbrd & H, Ohba (eds F.lo)r,a of
- Kdtimen's yomena subsp, angiLstijZ)lia (Naka iH,) Japan 3b: 59-66 .Kodansha, [Ibkyo.
YL Gu, Aim, MissouTi Bot. Gard, 84: 799 (1997). , A. Soejima M,. Hasebe & K. Watanabe. 1995 ,A
Iilp uJsAP,AN, Yamaguchi: Abu-gun, Jifuku-mura, chloroplast-DNA phylogeny of 1<dlimer iasnd Aster,
Mt. Ookuraga-dak e1,6 Oct, 1949, Z IVinh a&i NL with reference to the generic circumscription. J.
impzoiama s.n. (lec tToNS- [2 sheets], designate bdy Plant Res. 108: 93-96,
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