Cimicifuga taiwanensis (J. Compton, Hedd. & T. Y. A. Yang) Luferov 2000

Cimicifuga taiwanensis is a rare species and a member of the family Ranunculaceae that is on the red list of threatened plant species in Taiwan. This species presents in erect shrub-like form and is endemic to Taiwan. It was first named “Actaea taiwanensis J. Compton, Hedd. & T.Y.A. Yang” by British taxonomists Compton, Culham & Jury in 1998. They identified the species based on specimens collected by T. Y. Aleck Yang & Tseng-Chueng Huang on September 28, 1984 on Mt. Chunghueishan, Taiwan (collection number 416) . The specimen deposited in the herbarium of the National Museum of Natural Science (Herbarium abbreviation: TNM) is an “isotype” of Actaea taiwanensis. However, the scientific name was changed to Cimicifuga taiwanensis (J. Compton, Hedd. & T.Y.A. Yang) Luferov by Yang and Huang in 2008.