四川毛茛科二新种——乌头属一新种和唐松草属一新种

该文描述了自四川西部发现的毛茛科二新种,包括四川乌头属一新种,即泸定乌头(Aconitum ludingense W.T.Wang),此新种隶属于乌头属乌头亚属,以及四川唐松草属一新种,即狭药唐松草(Thalictrum stenantherum W.T.Wang),给出了此新种与其近缘种六脉萼唐松草之间的形态区别.     

敦化乌头的二萜生物碱成份

从敦化乌头(Aconitum dunhuaense S.H.Li)的根中分得6个单体二萜生物碱成份,经光谱分析及同标准品对照,鉴定它们分别为乌头碱(aconitine,1)、下乌头碱(hypaconitine,2)、尼奥灵(nepline,3)、去氧乌头碱(3-deoxyaconitine,4)、中乌头碱(mesaconitine,5)和阿康诺辛(aconosine,6)。     

黑顺片的二萜生物碱成分

常用中药川乌、附子为毛莨科乌头属植物乌头(Aconitum carmichaeli Debx.)的母根和子根.从附子的加工炮制品黑顺片中分离鉴定了5种C19乌头碱型二萜生物碱和1个C20纳哌啉型二萜生物碱.通过MS、NMR、IR等波谱分析和已知化合物数据对照,分别鉴定为次乌头碱(1)、尼奥宁(2)、塔拉地萨敏(3)、多根乌头碱(4)、异塔拉萨定(5)和去氢松果灵(6).     

国产7种乌头属植物的核型研究

本文报道了国产7种乌头属植物（两色乌头（Aconitum alboviolaceum Kom.,牛扁 A.barbartum var.puberulum Ledeb.,蔓乌头A.volubile Pall.,展毛蔓乌头 A.ciliare DC.,北乌头 A.kusnezoffii Reichb.,蒿叶乌头 A.artemisiaefolium Bar.et Skv.,细叶乌头 A.macrorhgnchum Turcz.）的核型。其中展毛蔓乌头、蒿叶乌头和细叶乌头的核型为首次报道。本文还首次指出乌头属中具多年生根状茎的牛扁亚属植物的核型没有明显的二型性,而具二年生块根的乌头正属植物的核型的二型性十分明显。此外还讨论了细叶乌头及展毛蔓乌头的系统位置,认为它们与蔓乌头有较近的亲缘关系。     

国产乌头属的化学分类

根据二萜生物碱的类型、生物合成、在乌头属植物中的分布,并参照国产乌头属的系统分类、形态演化和地理分布,本文讨论国产乌头属的化学分类。 1．以牛扁碱型成分为主的牛扁亚属和以乌头碱型成分为主的乌头亚属可能在乌头属进化的初期阶段就已分化,各自沿着独立的道路发展。2．乌头亚属包括以下类群：(1)以阿替生型、维特钦型、乌头碱型胺酵和 酯碱为主的保山乌头系,主要分布于国产乌头属近代发展分化中心之一的横断山脉和金沙江流域,可能国产乌头组的近代分化就是由该系发展而来; (2)以乌头碱、中乌头碱、下乌头碱为主的乌头系,为进化程度较高的群,所含乌头碱及尼奥灵显示了该系与保山乌头系的亲缘关系; (3)以乌头碱和松果灵为主的准噶尔乌头系,所含乌头碱和松果灵显示了该系与保山乌头系的亲缘关系; (4)以滇乌碱类酯碱为主的显柱乌头系和蔓乌头系,为进化程度较高的群,其酯碱有别于乌头碱类。3．以阿替生及C₁₉内酯型为主的甘青乌头系及圆叶乌头系,可能为进化早期形成的高山特化类群。4. 以阿替生和C₁₉乌头碱型胺醇为主的露蕊乌头亚属,可能为特化类群。     

展毛短柄乌头中的一个新二萜生物碱

从展毛短柄乌头(Aconitum brachypodum var.laxiflorum Fletcher et Lauener)根中分离鉴定了五个二萜生物碱,其中四个为已知成分,分别为乌头碱(aconitine)、3-去氧乌头碱(3-deoxyaconitine)、3-乙酰乌头碱(3-acetylaconitine)、雪乌碱(penduline),另一个为新成分,命名为丽鲁碱(laxiconitine),其结构通过光谱分析及化学反应测定如(1)。     

国产乌头属(毛茛科)的种子形态及其系统学意义

对中国毛茛科乌头属植物57种、5变种的种子形态进行了扫描电镜观察,结果发现:(1)种皮微形态特征在属内颇为稳定,种子表皮细胞多为长方形(仅露蕊乌头的种子表皮细胞为圆形或椭圆形),具有疏密不一的瘤状纹饰;(2)种子形态在亚属水平上有较大区别,特别是其中的单型亚属——露蕊乌头亚属的种子表面具有较为复杂的网状凹陷,与牛扁亚属和乌头亚属的种子(表面相当平滑)明显不同;(3)种子形态在牛扁亚属和乌头亚属中都有明显的分化,所观察的牛扁亚属的种子可分为两个类型,乌头亚属的种子可分为4个类型.根据上述结果,讨论了乌头属种子形态的分类和系统学价值.     

乌鲁木齐乌头, 新疆毛茛科一新种

该文描述了发现自中国新疆天山北部的毛茛科乌头属一新种,即乌鲁木齐乌头(Aconitm urumqiense),此新种与新疆乌头(A. sinchiangense)近缘。两者的区别在于此新种(乌鲁木齐乌头)的茎无毛,不存在基生叶,总状花序轴和花梗被黄色腺毛,萼片背面疏被柔毛、边缘被缘毛,上萼片较宽,花瓣唇在顶端啮蚀状,子房幼时疏被柔毛。     

国产12种乌头属和18种翠雀属植物的细胞学研究

研究了12种乌头属Aconitum L．和18种翠雀属Delphinium L．植物的染色体。在12种乌头属植物中,除粗花乌头A．crassiflorum为四倍体(2n=4x=32)外,其他种类都为二倍体(2n=2x＝16),中甸乌头 A.piepunense中有B染色体存在,牛扁亚属Aconitum subgen．Lycoctonum的二倍体植物与乌头亚属Aconitum subgen．Aconitum 植物的染色体在大小和形态上有明显区别;所有18种翠雀属植物都为二倍体(2n＝2x=16),其染色体在大小和形态上极为相似,但与乌头亚属的染色体易于区别。翠雀属植物的核型不对称性程度明显高于乌头属植物,因此从染色体证据来看,翠雀属要比乌头属进化。     

堵喇原植物的考证

堵喇是云南民间用来解草乌毒的一种乌头属(Aconitum)植物,在清代吴其浚的《植物名实图考》中就有记载。根据其绘图和描述,可以看出堵喇为乌头属中的藤本种类,但长期以来对于堵喇究竟为何种乌头属植物一直未能确认。本文参考有关文献,并结合野外观察,考证出堵喇的原植物应为苍山乌头(A. contortum Finet et Gagnep.)。     

迁西乌头，河北毛茛科一新种

描述了自河北省发现的毛茛科乌头属一新种,迁西乌头。此新种在叶和花的形状方面与乌头像似,但其块根二叉状分枝,茎低矮,之字形弯曲,无毛,叶较小,无毛,花单朵顶生,花梗、萼片外面和心片均无毛,而与乌头相区别。     

Antioxidant and immunological activities of water-soluble polysaccharides from Aconitum kusnezoffii Reichb

Aconitum kusnezoffii Reichb., one of the earliest recorded toxic species of genus Aconitum, has been used as traditional Chinese medicine and medicinal diet over the last 2500 years to treat heart failure congestion, neuralgia, rheumatism and gout, etc. In the present paper, four water-soluble polysaccharide fractions isolated from the tubers of A. kusnezoffii Reichb. were studied the antioxidant and immunological activities for the first time. In vitro antioxidant assays indicated that fraction WKCP-A had noticeable scavenging activities on DPPH radical, hydroxyl radical, superoxide anion, H₂O₂ and self-oxidation of 1,2,3-phentriol, ferrous ion-chelating ability and reducing power. Moreover, the in vivo immunological assay exhibited that fractions WKCP-A and WKHP could more significantly enhance splenic lymphocyte proliferation and macrophage phagocytosis than other fractions. Therefore, the water-soluble polysaccharides from A. kusnezoffii Reichb., especially WKCP-A, have the potential to be explored as novel natural antioxidants and immunostimulating agents for using in functional foods or medicine.     

Female reproductive success decreases with display size in monkshood, Aconitum kusnezoffii (Ranunculaceae)

Background and Aims

Reduction in female fitness in large clones can occur as a result of increased geitonogamous self-fertilization and its influence through inbreeding depression. This possibility was investigated in the self-compatible, bee-pollinated perennial herb Aconitum kusnezoffii which varies in clone size.

Methods

Field investigations were conducted on pollinator behaviour, flowering phenology and variation in seed set. The effects of self-pollination following controlled self- and cross-pollination were also examined. Selfing rates of differently sized clones were assessed using allozyme markers.

Key Results

High rates of geitonogamous pollination were associated with large display size. Female fitness at the ramet level decreased with clone size. Fruit and seed set under cross-pollination were significantly higher than those under self-pollination. The pre-dispersal inbreeding depression was estimated as 0·502 based on the difference in seed set per flower between self- and cross-pollinated flowers. Selfing rates of differently sized clones did not differ.

Conclusions

It is concluded that in A. kusnezoffii the negative effects of self-pollination causing reduced female fertility with clone size arise primarily from a strong early-acting inbreeding depression leading to the abortion of selfed embryos prior to seed maturation.Key words: Early-acting inbreeding depression, Aconitum kusnezoffii, clone size, female reproductive success, geitonogamy     

Taxonomic status and distributional range of Aconitum angustius (Ranunculaceae) based on cytological evidence

Aconitum sinomontanum Nakai var. angustius W. T. Wang (Ranunculaceae) has been recorded to occur only in the Anhui, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, China. However, it is here revealed to be a much more widespread tetraploid (2n = 32) entity almost allopatric with the diploid (2n = 16) A. sinomontanum s.s. The former entity has a southern distribution in China, occurring in Anhui, Chongqing, northern Guangxi, Guizhou, southern Henan, northwestern Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi, while the latter has a relatively northern distribution, occurring in northeastern Chongqing, southern Gansu, Hebei, western Henan, western Hubei, eastern Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Sichuan. There is only minor overlap of the geographical distributions of the diploid and tetraploid populations, with both entities documented as co‐occurring in northeastern Chongqing and northwestern Hubei. The two entities also are very different from each other in karyotypic constitution. As A. sinomontanum var. angustius is fairly well differentiated from A. sinomontanun in external morphology, ploidy level, karyotypic constitution and geographical distribution, it seems justified to recognize A. sinomontanum var. angustius, an entity possibly of allopolyploid origin, as the independent species A. angustius (W. T. Wang) W. T. Wang.     

The Role of Late-Acting Self-Incompatibility and Early-Acting Inbreeding Depression in Governing Female Fertility in Monkshood,Aconitum kusnezoffii

Reduced seed yields following self-pollination have repeatedly been observed, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive when self-pollen tubes can readily grow into ovaries, because pre-, post-zygotic late-acting self-incompatibility (LSI), or early-acting inbreeding depression (ID) can induce self-sterility. The main objective of this study was to differentiate these processes in Aconitum kusnezoffii, a plant lacking stigmatic or stylar inhibition of self-pollination. We performed a hand-pollination experiment in a natural population of A. kusnezoffii, compared seed set among five pollination treatments, and evaluated the distribution of seed size and seed set. Embryonic development suggested fertilization following self-pollination. A partial pre-zygotic LSI was suggested to account for the reduced seed set by two lines of evidence. The seed set of chase-pollination treatment significantly exceeded that of self-pollination treatment, and the proportion of unfertilized ovules was the highest following self-pollination. Meanwhile, early-acting ID, rather than post-zygotic LSI, was suggested by the findings that the size of aborted selfed seeds varied continuously and widely; and the selfed seed set both exhibited a continuous distribution and positively correlated with the crossed seed set. These results indicated that the embryos were aborted at different stages due to the expression of many deleterious alleles throughout the genome during seed maturation. No signature of post-zygotic LSI was found. Both partial pre-zygotic LSI and early-acting ID contribute to the reduction in selfed seed set in A. kusnezoffii, with pre-zygotic LSI rejecting part of the self-pollen and early-acting ID aborting part of the self-fertilized seeds.     

Molecular and morphological analyses of EuropeanAconitum species (Ranunculaceae)

The systematics of the yellow-floweredAconitum lycoctonum species complex (Ranunculaceae) has long been considered difficult because of high morphological variability and hypothesized hybridization. To elucidate the systematic value of these taxa, and to study their phylogeny in a broader context, we studied all species of the subgenusLycoctonum from Europe and the Caucasus Mountains and the European species of the subgen.Aconitum. We sequenced the ITS region and the chloroplast intergenic spacerpsbA-trnH and conducted parsimony analyses. We also measured morphological characters from 19A. lycoctonum populations. The two subgenera in Europe are clearly separated but hybridization between subgenera might have taken place in the past. Sequence variation withinA. lycoctonum and among all taxa of subgenusLycoctonum was very low and probably the result of recent speciation, leading to one morphologically highly variable species in which color morphs could be seen as subspecies. There was high morphological variability within and among populations and the morphological characters have no value as systematic characters.     

石耳属一新种(子囊菌门)

本文描述了地衣型石耳属一新种,周鳞石耳.新种脐叶体上表面以周边皮层碎片上翘而形成的大量准鳞芽,类似于淡腹鳞石耳,但是,不同之处在于新种脐叶体下表面黑色,覆以大量同色而多分枝的假根以及具有不同的地理分布.从而呈现为地理替代现象.文中为新种提供了拉丁文特征提要、英文描述、图片与地理分布图以及新种及其相关种的检索表.     

云南被子植物新资料

植物资源调查是探讨系统发育、植物区系进化历史和亲缘关系的基础,是我国植物研究工作的重要任务之一,虽然我国在植物资源调查方面有了丰富的积累,并以《中国植物志》和各地方植物志为代表,但部分偏远地区的植物资源状况仍然缺乏数据。该研究通过形态特征比较分析,发现云南省被子植物新记录3种,即柳叶黄肉楠(Actinodaphne lecomtei C. K. Allen)原分布于四川、贵州、广东(乳源)、广西,云南省丘北县为其新记录点;八角樟(Cinnamomum ilicioides A. Chevalier)原分布于中国的广东、海南、广西和越南北部,云南省西双版纳傣族自治州勐腊县为其新记录点;贵州山核桃(Carya kweichowensis Kuang A. M. Lu ex Chang et Lu)原分布于贵州安龙、望谟、册亨、兴义等,云南省丘北县为其新记录点。柳叶黄肉楠和八角樟在云南的新分布点是对我国樟科薄弱地带的补充,为分析滇产原始种类对相关属的起源发生和中国樟科分类学研究提供了新材料;贵州山核桃在物种层面上对确定贵州山核桃与喙核桃(Annamocarya sinensis)两者之间的联系提供了新的案例,并为云南发展山核桃(Carya cathayensis)生产提供了种质资源。