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Ranunculaceae

Delphinium

Delphinium afghanicum Rech.f.

First published in Anz. Österr. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 91: 74 (1954)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is NE. Afghanistan to SW. Xinjiang. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subalpine or subarctic biome.

Distribution
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Other data

Native to:

Afghanistan, Xinjiang

Heterotypic Synonyms

Delphinium aktoense W.T.Wang in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 37: 216 (1999)
Delphinium kaschgaricum Chang Y.Yang & B.Wang in Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 9(1): 21 (1989)
Delphinium kunlunshanicum Chang Y.Yang & B.Wang in Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 9(1): 23 (1989)
Delphinium wuqiaense W.T.Wang in Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(1): 32 (1983)
Delphinium zhangii W.T.Wang in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 37: 2214 (1999)

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Streptophyta
Class Equisetopsida
Subclass Magnoliidae
Order
Ranunculales

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Family
Ranunculaceae

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Genus
Delphinium

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Species
Delphinium afghanicum

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
Li, H.M. & al. (2019). Taxonomic studies on the genus Delphinium (Ranunculaceae) from China (XVII): Five new synonyms of D. afghanicum, a newly recorded species for China. Phytotaxa 393: 89-104.
M.Iranshahr, K.H.Rechinger, H.Riedl (1992). Flora Iranica 171: 1-249. Naturhistorisches Museums Wien.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Li, H.M. & al. (2019). Taxonomic studies on the genus Delphinium (Ranunculaceae) from China (XVII): Five new synonyms of D. afghanicum, a newly recorded species for China. Phytotaxa 393: 89-104.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1
- Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0