PhytoKeysPub Date : 2025-03-12eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.253.138216
Sandra Knapp, Yuri F Gouvêa, Leandro L Giacomin
{"title":"A revision of the endemic Brazilian <i>Solanumhexandrum</i> group (Leptostemonum, <i>Solanum</i>, Solanaceae).","authors":"Sandra Knapp, Yuri F Gouvêa, Leandro L Giacomin","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.138216","DOIUrl":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.138216","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Leptostemonum Clade, or the 'spiny solanums', represents half of the species diversity of the large cosmopolitan genus <i>Solanum</i> (Solanaceae). Brazil is a centre of both species and lineage diversity in 'spiny solanums' with a number of lineages occurring mostly only there. Here, we treat the <i>Solanumhexandrum</i> group, a monophyletic species group that is part of the larger and unresolved Erythrotrichum clade <i>sensu lato.</i> The six species treated here are all robust very prickly shrubs with amongst the largest and showiest flowers in <i>Solanum</i> and accrescent calyces in fruit that often completely cover the mature berry. All six species are endemic to the coastal Atlantic forests of south-eastern and north-eastern Brazil. We describe one new species, <i>S.phrixothrix</i> Gouvêa & S.Knapp, <b>sp. nov.</b>, known only from two collections made 200 years apart. Many of the species in the group occur in very small populations around isolated gneissic/granitic inselbergs, a highly threatened habitat in the region. We provide complete nomenclatural details for all recognised species and their synonyms, complete descriptions, distributions including maps, illustrations, common names and uses and preliminary conservation assessments.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"199-259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11923794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143670664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytoKeysPub Date : 2025-03-12eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.253.142516
Wei Zhou, Zi-Lin Feng, Long-Ping Tang, Du Deng, Bao-Cheng Wu, Lei Wu
{"title":"<i>Pternopetalumshunhuangensis</i> (Apiaceae), a new species from Hunan, China.","authors":"Wei Zhou, Zi-Lin Feng, Long-Ping Tang, Du Deng, Bao-Cheng Wu, Lei Wu","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.142516","DOIUrl":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.142516","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on field investigations, morphological and molecular systematic studies, a new species, <i>Pternopetalumshunhuangensis</i> (Apiaceae) from Hunan Province, China is described. Diagnostic morphological characters, full description and a detailed illustration are provided. The differences between <i>P.shunhuangensis</i> and morphologically similar species <i>P.tanakae</i> are presented and discussed. Since no population assessment of this species in its whole distribution area is made, it is best to assign a conservation status of 'Data Deficient' (DD) for this species.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"261-270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11923594/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143670661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytoKeysPub Date : 2025-03-11eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.253.145997
Wei Zhang, Xiao-Yan Xiang, Ting-Shen Han, Jian-Wen Shao, Kai Zhao
{"title":"<i>Rorippadaguanensis</i> (Brassicaceae), a new species from eastern China.","authors":"Wei Zhang, Xiao-Yan Xiang, Ting-Shen Han, Jian-Wen Shao, Kai Zhao","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.145997","DOIUrl":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.145997","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Rorippadaguanensis</i> W.Zhang & K.Zhao (Brassicaceae), a new species from Anhui and Hubei Provinces of eastern China, is described. Its floral morphology resembles <i>R.dubia</i>, with its fruit morphology similar to <i>R.cantoniensis</i>. However, it can be readily distinguished from <i>R.dubia</i> by its inconspicuous stems, oval silicle and from <i>R.cantoniensis</i> by the absence of petals and bracts on its flowers. The complete plastid genome of this new species is 155,594 bp in length. Phylogenetic analyses, based on whole plastid genome sequences of <i>Rorippa</i> species, revealed that <i>R.daguanensis</i> is sister to <i>R.cantoniensis</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"189-198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11920822/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytoKeysPub Date : 2025-03-07eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.253.147019
Lei Peng, Yu-Jie Zhang, Yun-Yun Xiao, Chu-Yi Xia, Xin Luo, Wei-Qiang Qin, Dai-Gui Zhang, Qiang Zhou, Ze-Long Nie, Meng-Hua Zhang
{"title":"The rediscovery of <i>Ohwialuteola</i> (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae) after 50 years and comparative analysis of <i>Ohwia</i> species in plastid genome sequence.","authors":"Lei Peng, Yu-Jie Zhang, Yun-Yun Xiao, Chu-Yi Xia, Xin Luo, Wei-Qiang Qin, Dai-Gui Zhang, Qiang Zhou, Ze-Long Nie, Meng-Hua Zhang","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.147019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.253.147019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Ohwialuteola</i> (H. Ohashi & T. Nemoto) H. Ohashi is only known from one collection in Yunnan Province, China. It has not been recollected since its last collection in 1972. Here, we report the rediscovery of the species that means the first new record in Hunan Province, China. Based on fresh material, we present a revised morphological description of <i>O.luteola</i> and conducted sequencing and assembly of the plastid genome. Morphologically, <i>O.luteola</i> is similar to <i>O.caudata</i>, but the former can be easily distinguished by leaflets length/width ratio ranging from 2.5 to 3.6, leaflets apex acute (with an angle of 50°-80°), terminal inflorescences, wings distinctly auriculate at base and inner side indistinctly rugose, and hilum center not over 3/5 length of seed. Molecular phylogenetic analysis confirmed <i>O.luteola</i> is sister to <i>O.caudata</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"177-187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11909597/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143649896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Grewiakentingensis</i> (Malvaceae, Grewioideae), a new species from Taiwan.","authors":"Chou-Yi Lin, Chih-Yi Chang, Chiu-Mei Wang, Hsy-Yu Tzeng, Yen-Hsueh Tseng","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.141785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.253.141785","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Grewiakentingensis</i> Y.H. Tseng, Chih Y.Chang & C.Y.Lin, <b>sp. nov.</b>, a new species found on elevated coral reefs in southern Taiwan, is described. The species was previously misidentified as <i>G.piscatorum</i> Hance. <i>Grewiakentingensis</i> differs from <i>G.piscatorum</i> in its habit (procumbent vs. erect to ascending shrub), leaf length (<2 cm vs. up to 7 cm), breeding system (gynodioecious vs. trioecious), smaller flower diameter, fewer stamens, and smaller pollen grains. Color photographs, line drawings, and pollen images of the new species are provided. Additionally, a lectotype for <i>G.piscatorum</i> is designated and an identification key for the <i>Grewia</i> taxa of Taiwan is presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"155-176"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11907245/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143649893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Bambusarushunii</i> (Poaceae, Bambusoideae, Bambuseae), a new bamboo species from Guangdong, China.","authors":"Jing-Bo Ni, Meng-Ling Li, Shu-Peng Dong, Yi-Hua Tong","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.143389","DOIUrl":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.143389","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new bamboo species, <i>Bambusarushunii</i>, from Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province, China, is described and illustrated in this paper. The new species resembles <i>B.gibba</i> and <i>B.dissimulator</i> in having branchlets specialised into weak thorns at the lower nodes of culms, but can be easily distinguished from the latter two by having one or two extremely shortened internodes at the culm base, glabrous internode, culm leaf sheath being dark brown strigose on the central part and with a nearly truncate or slightly obliquely truncate apex, relatively high culm leaf ligule, culm leaf blade base not narrowed, extending outwards and contiguous with auricles and the glabrous foliage leaf with a ciliate ligule margin.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"133-141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11898096/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143616781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytoKeysPub Date : 2025-03-04eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.253.142268
Grzegorz J Wolski
{"title":"The genus <i>Plagiothecium</i> (Plagiotheciaceae) in Europe - current state of knowledge, checklist and key to taxa.","authors":"Grzegorz J Wolski","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.142268","DOIUrl":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.142268","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This manuscript presents current knowledge of the taxonomy, variability and distribution of taxa of the genus <i>Plagiothecium</i> in Europe. Currently the genus comprises 31 taxa: 17 species and 14 varieties. In this study I designated 10 lectotypes and proposes six new synonyms for the described taxa, in addition five new nomenclatural combinations: P.denticulatumvar.pseudosylvaticum, P.denticulatumvar.pungens, P.laetumvar.hercinicum, P.succulentumvar.cryptarum, and P.sylvaticumvar.immersum. Detailed descriptions and distribution data for each taxon, illustrations highlighting key taxonomic features and a diagnostic key are also provided to facilitate the identification of individual taxa.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"67-102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11898098/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143616785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytoKeysPub Date : 2025-03-04eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.253.144114
John L Clark
{"title":"<i>Columneagolondrinensis</i> (Gesneriaceae), a new species from Cerro Golondrinas in the northern Andes of Ecuador.","authors":"John L Clark","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.144114","DOIUrl":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.144114","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exploratory field expeditions to the Chocó forests in the northern Andes of Ecuador resulted in the discovery of a new species of <i>Columnea</i> (Gesneriaceae). <i>Columneagolondrinensis</i> J.L.Clark, <b>sp. nov.</b>, is described as a narrow endemic from the cloud forests of Cerro Golondrinas in the Carchi Province near the northern Ecuadorian border with Colombia. The oval leaves with a rust-colored multicellular hispid indumentum, terrestrial subwoody habit and deeply bilabiate dark purple corollas with glandular trichomes differentiate this taxon from all other congeners. Based on IUCN guidelines, a preliminary conservation status of Vulnerable (VU) is provided for <i>C.golondrinensis</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11898048/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143616782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytoKeysPub Date : 2025-03-04eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.253.134319
Hasina N Rakouth, Sylvie Andriambololonera, Bakolimalala Rakouth, Peter B Phillipson, Porter P Lowry Ii, Nicholas Wilding
{"title":"A digital multi-access key for easy identification of large tree species of ebony wood in Madagascar.","authors":"Hasina N Rakouth, Sylvie Andriambololonera, Bakolimalala Rakouth, Peter B Phillipson, Porter P Lowry Ii, Nicholas Wilding","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.134319","DOIUrl":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.134319","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2013, all populations of the precious wood genera <i>Dalbergia</i> (Fabaceae) and <i>Diospyros</i> (Ebenaceae) from Madagascar were placed on CITES Appendix II in an effort to combat unsustainable and illicit over-exploitation and illegal exportation for the international market. The accompanying Action Plan adopted by CITES identified several information and capacity gaps, which undermine the sustainable and equitable management of these valuable resources. These gaps include the lack of practical, reliable tools to identify species along the entire value chain, from standing trees to cut wood and finished products. To address this need, we developed simple, user-friendly, multi-access keys for the two genera in Madagascar using the Lucid application. This new tool provides highly accurate identification of standing and felled trees to assist actors in the forestry, regulatory, and natural resource management sectors, including customs officials and law enforcement authorities as well as conservationists and protected area managers. In this paper, we focus on the development of the <i>Diospyros</i> identification tool. This interactive, electronic key employs 109 informative characters, including morphological features, emphasizing vegetative structures such as bark, stems, and leaves that are present even in the absence of flowers and fruits, in conjunction with eco-geographic characters (bioclimate, elevation, and geography). The key is supplemented with photos, illustrations, and a comprehensive glossary, to deliver accurate identification of the 88 <i>Diospyros</i> species that are large enough to be potential sources of commercially valuable ebony wood (≥ 20 cm DBH and/or ≥ 20 m height). This is the first use of Lucid to develop an identification key for species in Madagascar, paving the way for its application to other taxa for which practical electronic field identification is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"103-132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11898054/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143616784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytoKeysPub Date : 2025-03-04eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.253.128972
Gui-Yuan Wei, Chuan-Gui Xu, Ying-Jing Li, Bin Feng, Qi-Min Hu, Chao Yang, Xin-Cheng Qu, You Nong
{"title":"<i>Violaxinchengensis</i> (Violaceae), a new species from central Guangxi, China.","authors":"Gui-Yuan Wei, Chuan-Gui Xu, Ying-Jing Li, Bin Feng, Qi-Min Hu, Chao Yang, Xin-Cheng Qu, You Nong","doi":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.128972","DOIUrl":"10.3897/phytokeys.253.128972","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Violaxinchengensis</i> (Violaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China, is established on the basis of morphological and molecular evidence. This new species resembles <i>V.lucens</i>, but differs from the latter by its stipules margin long fimbriate-dentate (vs. fimbriate-dentate), stolon absent (vs. stolon slender, often producing a new plant at the top) and sepals 4-6 mm, glabrous (vs. 2.5-3 mm, villous). <i>Violaxinchengensis</i> is similar to <i>V.fargesii</i>, but it can be easily distinguished by its pedicels sparsely white villous (vs. densely spreading white puberulous), stolon absent (vs. stolon longer, elongated, puberulous, sometimes stem-like) and sepals 4-6 mm, glabrous (vs. 7-9 mm, puberulous). Our morphology analysis confirms that the new species belongs to V.sect.Plagiostigmasubsect.Diffusae. Photographs, an illustration, a distribution map and comparisons with the most similar species are also provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":20070,"journal":{"name":"PhytoKeys","volume":"253 ","pages":"143-154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11898058/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143616783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}