The carpology and taxonomy of some Chinese Corispermum (Amaranthaceae s. l.) Author Sukhorukov, Alexander P. Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China; zhangml @ ibcas. ac. cn & Department of Higher Plants, Biological Faculty, Moscow Lomonosov State University, 119234, Moscow, Russia; suchor @ mail. ru Author Zhang, Mingli Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China; zhangml @ ibcas. ac. cn & Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Author Nilova, Maya V. Department of Higher Plants, Biological Faculty, Moscow Lomonosov State University, 119234, Moscow, Russia; suchor @ mail. ru text Phytotaxa 2014 2014-06-13 172 2 81 93 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.172.2.3 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.172.2.3 1179-3163 5142377 Corispermum declinatum Stephan ex Iljin (1928: 69) . Type ( lectotype here designated by Sukhorukov & Zhang ):— RUSSIA . Sibiria: Sievers 788 (LE!, specimen on the left side) . Notes: —There is one sheet at LE, bearing one whole plant (left-hand specimen) and a small fragment (right-hand specimen) that are not part of a single gathering, so the Art. 9.17 of the ICN ( McNeill et al. 2012 ) cannot be applied. We here choose the left-hand specimen and designated in as the lectotype of the name Corispermum declinatum .