Friedmannia: a new genus from the Seychelles and the beginning of a generic realignment of Curculigo (Hypoxidaceae)
- Recent molecular phylogenetic reconstruction of the monocot Hypoxidaceae implies that the genus Curculigo is non-monophyletic. Curculigo seychellensis occurs on the Seychelles islands and is part of an isolated though geographically well-defined clade. However, Curculigo seychellensis differs in a wide range of character-states from other species of Curculigo and from the genus Hypoxidia, representing the sister clade of C. seychellensis. Therefore, we here propose a new-though monotypic-genus, endemic to the Seychelles: Friedmannia. A detailed reasoning combined with a whole set of new data is presented. A neotype for the genus and the species is designated here.
| Author details: | Alexander KocyanORCiDGND, Justyna Wiland-Szymanska |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.283.1.3 |
| ISSN: | 1179-3155 |
| ISSN: | 1179-3163 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Phytotaxa : a rapid international journal for accelerating the publication of botanical taxonomy |
| Publisher: | Magnolia Press |
| Place of publishing: | Auckland |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2016 |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
| Tag: | Asparagales; Curculigo; neotypification; taxonomy |
| Volume: | 283 |
| Number of pages: | 11 |
| First page: | 54 |
| Last Page: | 64 |
| Funding institution: | European Union [GB-TAF-2815] |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
