Artemisia chinensis

Artemisia chinensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Asteroideae
Tribus: Anthemideae
Subtribus: Artemisiinae
Genus: Artemisia
Subgenus: Artemisia subg. Pacifica
Species: Artemisia chinensis

Name

Artemisia chinensis L., Sp. Pl. 2: 849 (1753).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Absinthium chinense (L.) DC., Prodr. 6: 118 (1838).
  • Tanacetum chinense (L.) A.Gray ex Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, sér. 3, 17: 427 (1872).
  • Crossostephium chinense (L.) Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 20: 33 (1906).
• Heterotypic
  • Crossostephium artemisioides Less., Linnaea 6: 229 (1831).
  • Chrysanthemum artemisioides (Less.) Kitam., Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 8: 77 (1939).
    

Note: In spite of evidence presented by Hobbs & Baldwin (2013 and Jiao et al. (2023) this species is still commonly found as Crossostephium chinense (POWO, 2024).

Homonyms

• Artemisia chinensis Burm. ex DC., Prodr. 6: 125 (1838).
• Artemisia chinensis Besser, Linnaea 15(1): 92 (1841).
• Artemisia chinensis Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 521 (1813) vide Artemisia stelleriana Besser, Tent. Arbot.: 79 (1832)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa Regional: Western Indian Ocean Mauritius (introduced). Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: China China South-Central, China Southeast. Regional: Eastern Asia Japan, Kazan-retto, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan. Continental: Asia-Tropical Regional: Indo-China Cambodia, Laos, Thailand (introduced), Vietnam. Regional: Malesia Jawa, Philippines. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus II: 849. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Hobbs, C.R. & Baldwin, B.G. 2013. Asian origin and upslope migration of Hawaiian Artemisia (Compositae–Anthemideae). Journal of Biogeography 40(3): 442-454. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12046 Reference page. 
• Jiao, B.H., Chen, C., Wei, M., Niu, G., Zheng, J., Zhang, G.J., Shen, J., Vitales, D., Vallès-Xirau, J., Verloove, F., Erst, A.S., Soejima, A., Mehregan, I., Kokubugata, G., Chung, G.Y., Ge, X.-J., Gao, L.-M., Yuan, Y., Joly, C., Jabbour, F., Wang, W., Shultz, L.M.R. & Gao, T.G. 2023. Phylogenomics and morphological evolution of the mega-diverse genus Artemisia (Asteraceae: Anthemideae): implications for its circumscription and infrageneric taxonomy. Annals of Botany 131(5): 867–883. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcad051 Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2014. Artemisia chinensis in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2014 Dec. 16. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2024. Artemisia chinensis. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 6 2024. Reference page.

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