The correct name for an Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) hybrid of the parentage Aquilegiaflavescens × A.formosa.

ABSTRACT: Aquilegia×miniana (J.F.Macbr. & Payson) Cronk, hybr. & stat. nov. is the correct name for the hybrid Aquilegiaflavescens S.Watson × A.formosaFisch. & DC.var.formosa. In 1916 Payson and Macbride, while exploring the mountains of Idaho, found populations of Aquilegia that were pink in flower colour and appeared intermediate between the yellow-flowered A.flavescens and red-flowered A.formosa. They named these plants A.flavescensvar.miniana J.F.Macbr. & Payson. There has been uncertainty over whether their type collections (in GH, RM, MO, US, E, CM, CAS, NY) do indeed represent hybrids or pink-flowered morphs of A.flavescens. Using a Wells diagram, the holotype (in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University) is shown to be intermediate, allowing its iden

SUBMITTER: Cronk QCB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10209508 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature