Abstract:Examination of herbarium specimens has shown that Anemone xiaowutaishanica W. T. Wang & Bing Liu is conspecific with A. cathayensis Kitag. ex Ziman & Kadota. We therefore place A. xiaowutaishanica in synonymy under A. cathayensis. As A. cathayensis belongs to subsection Omalocarpus (DC.) Tamura, we place section Leptothece W. T. Wang & Bing Liu, which was established based on A. xiaowutaishanica, in synonymy under subsection Omalocarpus.