Catalogue of life <https://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/d55b5c237016ce7779b35b1514454795> gives *Verbascum chinense* (L.) Santapau as a syn. of *Verbascum coromandelianum* subsp. *sinense* (L.) D. Mc Kean with distribution as China (Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), Pakistan (Sind, Pakistani Punjab, Rawalpindi, N.W.Frontier Prov., Peshawar), Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir). POWO <http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:810918-1> gives *Verbascum chinense *(L.) Santapau with native range is Afghanistan to S. China and Indo-China (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, India, Laos, Thailand, West Himalaya) POWO <http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:891511-1> also gives *Verbascum coromandelianum* subsp. *sinense *with native to China South-Central.
Catalogue of life <https://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/d55b5c237016ce7779b35b1514454795> also gives *Verbascum coromandelianum *subsp. *coromandelianum* with distribution as Afghanistan (Kandahar), ?Pakistan, India, Myanmar [Burma] (Ayeyarwady, Bago, Mandalay, Yangon), NE-Thailand, Sri Lanka, Laos, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh. POWO <http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:810960-1#children> gives *Verbascum coromandelianum *with native range is E. & SE. Afghanistan to Myanmar (Afghanistan, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka). We have mainly only two species in India as per details at Verbascum <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/s/scrophulariaceae/verbascum> (*V. chinense *and *V.thapsus*) Can anybody help in clearing this confusion? What should be the status of our *V.chinense* <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/s/scrophulariaceae> ? -- With regards, J.M.Garg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFCJn8kGmbofz%3DCzGgf_kbK0L%3D65wGVJnvJfsH9C5RO%3DSQ%40mail.gmail.com.

