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Aquilegia formosa Fisch. ex DC.

This species name was first published in Prodr. 1: 50 (1824)  

At the time of this classification snapshot, this species name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-0000541324.

Literature

Synonyms of Aquilegia formosa Fisch. ex DC.

Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link
Aquilegia formosa f. truncata (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Rapaics Bot. Közlem. 8: 136. 1909 wfo-0000506383
Aquilegia arctica G.Don Hort. Brit. [Loudon], ed. 3. 610 (1839) wfo-0000541130
Aquilegia californica Hartw. Gard. Chron. 1854: 836 (1854) wfo-0000541208
Aquilegia californica A.Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts vii. (1868) 328. wfo-0000541209
Aquilegia canadensis Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. (Hooker) i. 24. wfo-0000541212
Aquilegia canadensis f. arctica (G.Don ex Otto & A.Dietr.) Rapaics Bot. Közlem. 8: 136 (1909) wfo-0000541216
Aquilegia canadensis var. formosa (Fisch. ex DC.) Torr. ex S.Watson Botany [Fortieth Parallel] : 10 (1871) wfo-0000541231
Aquilegia canadensis subsp. formosa (Fisch. ex DC.) Brühl J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 61: 319 (1893) wfo-0000541232
Aquilegia canadensis var. incarnata Rapaics Bot. Közlem. 8: 136 (1909) wfo-0000541235
Aquilegia canadensis f. truncata (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Rapaics Bot. Közlem. 8: 136. 1909 wfo-0000541242
Aquilegia columbiana Rydb. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29: 145 (1902) wfo-0000541261
Aquilegia emarginata Eastw. Leafl. W. Bot. 2: 7 (1937) wfo-0000541303
Aquilegia formosa Hook.f. Bot. Mag. 107: t. 6552. 1881 wfo-0000541325
Aquilegia formosa f. anomala J.T.Howell Leafl. W. Bot. 2: 255 (1940) wfo-0000541326
Aquilegia formosa var. arctica (Loudon) Planch. ex Brühl J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 61(2): 319 1893 — wfo-0000541327
Aquilegia formosa var. communis B.Boivin Amer. Midl. Naturalist 50: 510 (1953) wfo-0000541332
Aquilegia formosa var. kamtshatica Brühl J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 61: 320 (1893) wfo-0000541338
Aquilegia formosa var. megalantha B.Boivin Amer. Midl. Naturalist 50: 510 (1953) wfo-0000541342
Aquilegia formosa var. saxicola Brühl J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 61: 320 (1893) wfo-0000541345
Aquilegia formosa subsp. vera Brühl J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 61(2): 319 1893 — wfo-0000541348
Aquilegia formosa var. wawawensis (Payson) H.St.John Res. Stud. State Coll. Wash. 1: 97 (1929) wfo-0000541349
Aquilegia hookeri Borbás Természetrajzi Füz. 8: 311 (1884) wfo-0000541387
Aquilegia wawawensis Payson Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 20: 145 (1918) wfo-0000541738
Aquilegia formosa var. pauciflora (Greene) Payson Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 20(4): 144 1918 — wfo-0001129371
Aquilegia formosa var. truncata (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) M.E.Jones Zoe 4: 259. 1893 wfo-0001129372
Aquilegia formosa var. formosa – – wfo-0001129634
Aquilegia formosa f. formosa – – — wfo-0001129727
Aquilegia formosa var. pauciflora Munz – — wfo-0001130181

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