Abstract: An examination of the holotype of Polyalthia pingpienensis P. T. Li has shown that the holotype is an admixture. The branch and the flower on the sheet should be referred to P. plagioneura Diels，whereas the detached leaf belongs to another species，whose i

Key words: wordsAnnonaceae, Polyalthia, P.pingpienensis, lectotypification, newsynonymy