A review of plants treated as Hieracium angustatum (Asteraceae) in Britain
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https://doi.org/10.33928/bib.2025.07.050Keywords:
Hieracium caesium Fr. var. angustatum; Hieracium angustatum (Lindeb.) Lindeb.; Hieracium subangustatum T.C.G.Rich; holotype; lectotype.Abstract
Hieracium subangustatum, Lesser-leaved Hawkweed, is described as a new English Lake District endemic; it was formerly included under the Norwegian H. angustatum Lindeb. in Blytt (1874) (=H. angustatum (Lindeb.) Lindeb., 1877). A lectotype is selected for H. caesium Fr. var. angustatum Lindeb. (1872), the basionym of H. angustatum Lindeb.
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