PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.1
David M. Williams, B. Vijver
{"title":"The diatom genus Ctenophora: A discussion on its morphology, relationships, and some species","authors":"David M. Williams, B. Vijver","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"The diatom genus Ctenophora is examined for its morphological characters and its relationships. Some aspects of the nomenclature of the genus are clarified with respect to various specimens identified as Ctenophora pulchella, Ctenophora saxonica and Ctenophora vertebrata. The focus is on the structure of the valves and girdle rather than a complete account of the species-level diversity in Ctenophora. General conclusions are (1) Ctenophora is not a monotypic genus; (2) the relationships of Ctenophora will include ‘Fragilaria’ famelica, Catacombas (= Synedra) and the various groups within the paraphyletic Tabularia.","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"3 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139153754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.3
Muhammad Asif, Malka Saba, Mubashar Raza
{"title":"First report of the genus Xerophorus from Asia with the description of Xerophorus pakistanicus (Callistosporiaceae), a new species from Southern Punjab, Pakistan","authors":"Muhammad Asif, Malka Saba, Mubashar Raza","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"A novel species, Xerophorus pakistanicus, has been identified from Southern Punjab, Pakistan, based on morphological characters and molecular phylogenetic analyses. Xerophorus pakistanicus is characterized by a brown to dull orange, parabolic to campanulate pileus, a stipe turning light yellowish brown on handling, an absence of an annulus, amygdaliform to oblong basidiospores, utriform to pyriform caulocystidia, and the presence of clamp connections only in the stipitipellis. A phylogram, based on the combined nrITS-28S dataset, was constructed to assess the phylogenetic position of our strain, resulted Xerophorus pakistanicus sp. nov. within the genus Xerophorus. We present the new species with an illustrated morphological description and comparison with similar morphological or phylogenetically related species. This is the first record of the genus Xerophorus from Asia. A key to the known species of Xerophorus is also provided.","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139153283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.2
Annemarie Heiduk, D. G. Styles
{"title":"Ceropegia strophanthiflora (Apocynaceae—Asclepiadoideae)—a magnificent and rare new species from South Africa at the brink of extinction","authors":"Annemarie Heiduk, D. G. Styles","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a novel species of Ceropegia (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae-Ceropegieae), C. strophanthiflora, from inland of Mtubatuba in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The new species is placed in section Chamaesiphon where it appears to be vegetatively and floristically most similar to C. rehmannii (formerly Brachystelma foetidum). Ceropegia strophanthiflora can, however, be readily distinguished from this species by its strikingly colourful greenish-yellow flowers with bright purple markings and purplish-pink vibratile hairs fringing the corolla lobe bases. Most remarkable, however, are the unusually long, slender and twisted corolla lobes much reminiscent of flowers known in Strophanthus; hence the name C. strophanthiflora. There are no other known South African species exhibiting such flamboyant flowers. Concerningly, this spectacular new species may be at the brink of extinction as only very little habitat remains which is under severe anthropogenic threat. Brachystelma tanzaniense, a species with long and slender corolla lobes from Tanzania, is transferred to Ceropegia section Chamaesiphon under the proposed new name C. dodomaensis. Moreover, the blocking name for this transfer, C. tanzaniensis, is reduced to a synonym of C. cordiloba for which we designate a lectotype.","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"178 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139153711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.9
R. Kottaimuthu, YALATOOR MAHESH
{"title":"Spiraea glabrescens, the legitimate name for Spiraea celtifolia (Rosaceae)","authors":"R. Kottaimuthu, YALATOOR MAHESH","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>N/A</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"60 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139154459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.7
SHU-WAN Li, QUAN-RU Liu
{"title":"Machilus velutinoides—a new synonym of M. platycarpus (Lauraceae)","authors":"SHU-WAN Li, QUAN-RU Liu","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the study of protologues, herbarium specimens, and fieldwork, the authors found that Machilus velutinoides and M. platycarpus are conspecific. According to the rule of Article 11.4 of the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants (Shenzhen Code), the authors place the former as a synonym of the latter. A table comparing M. platycarpus, M. velutinoides, and M. velutinus is also provided.","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"50 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139154523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.631.1.1
Puttamon Pongkai, Li‐Bing Zhang, T. Boonkerd, R. Pollawatn
{"title":"Revision of the fern genus Diplazium (Polypodiales: Athyriaceae) in Thailand","authors":"Puttamon Pongkai, Li‐Bing Zhang, T. Boonkerd, R. Pollawatn","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.631.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.631.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Diplazium in Thailand is revised. Thirty-one species are recognized, of which D. thailandicum is new to science, and two species, D. bellum and D. pallidum are new to Thailand. These species are described and illustrated. The lectotypes of D. dilatatum, D. leptophyllum, D. petolotii and D. petrii are designated here. A key to the species, descriptions, line drawings, and ecological and distributional information are provided.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"6 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138944735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.3
Mauro Sanna, C. Marcenó, J. A. Prieto, E. Cires
{"title":"Genista anglica s.l. (Fabaceae): genetic similarities between Iberian and Italian populations","authors":"Mauro Sanna, C. Marcenó, J. A. Prieto, E. Cires","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"Genista anglica L. (Fabaceae) is a Western European plant, widespread from Northern Morocco to Southern Sweden, with two geographically isolated populations in Calabria (Italy). Based on morphological characters, some authors considered the southern Italian populations as two different species: Genista silana and Genista brutia. Recent phylogeographical studies reveal that the G. silana and G. brutia populations share genetic similarities with some populations of the widespread G. anglica from Northwestern of Iberian Peninsula, despite a distance of approximately 2000 km. Previously, other authors suggested anthropogenic introduction of these plants in the South of Italy, but this hypothesis has not been thoroughly investigated. To unravel the uncertain origin of the isolated Italian populations, we conducted a more detailed study about the genetic relationships between southern Italian populations and Northwestern of Iberian Peninsula populations of G. anglica s.l., using plastid DNA sequences. Our results show identical and similar haplotypes in some of the populations of the Northwestern of Iberian Peninsula and the Italian populations, which supports the hypothesis of a recent anthropogenic introduction.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"46 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138949782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.1
Entaj Tarafder, A. Dutta, Samantha C. Karunarathna, M. He, Fenghua Tian, Krishnednu Acharya
{"title":"Agaricus sect. Xanthodermatei (Agaricales) of West Bengal, India","authors":"Entaj Tarafder, A. Dutta, Samantha C. Karunarathna, M. He, Fenghua Tian, Krishnednu Acharya","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"Four species of Agaricus (Agaricaceae, Basidiomycota) belonging to the A. sect. Xanthodermatei of A. subg. Pseudochitonia, viz. Agaricus punjabensis, A. endoxanthus, A. melanocarpus, and A. xanthodermulus, are described from West Bengal, India, based on morphological and molecular sequences (nrDNA ITS and LSU rDNA) data. Comprehensive descriptions, field photographs of the specimens, and comparisons with morphologically similar and phylogenetically related taxa are provided. Among the four taxa, Agaricus punjabensis, A. melanocarpus, and A. xanthodermulus represent their first records for India, and Agaricus endoxanthus is newly reported for the state of West Bengal.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.4
E. Gusev, Hoan Tran, Nataliya Shkurina, N. Martynenko
{"title":"Mallomonas rimosa sp. nov. (Synurales, Chrysophyceae)—a rare tropical species from Vietnam","authors":"E. Gusev, Hoan Tran, Nataliya Shkurina, N. Martynenko","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"A new species, Mallomonas rimosa sp. nov., is described from Vietnam based on silica-scale morphology observed using scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Mallomonas rimosa belongs to section Torquatae and is most similar to M. eoa, M. prora, M. serrata, M. scrobiculata, M. pumilio var. dispersa, M. caverna, and M. lanalhuensis. The main distinctive features of scales of the newly described species are the shield ornamentation with small, circular, and evenly spaced pits and the single row of papillae on each side of the anterior flange. Mallomonas rimosa was found in water bodies with acidic conditions, low mineralization, and high temperature.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"26 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138950422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.2
Gideon F. Smith
{"title":"A nomenclatural and taxonomic review of the names and new combination published between 1886 and 1931 in Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) by British botanist Nicholas Edward Brown (1849–1934)","authors":"Gideon F. Smith","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"The British botanist Nicholas Edward Brown (1849–1934) who worked in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1873 until well beyond his retirement, had a special interest in succulent plants, predominantly, but not exclusively, the Aizoaceae, the vygie family. He also described 12 species of Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) as new, and published one new combination in the genus for a species that he had earlier placed in Cotyledon. The nomenclature and taxonomy of the names published in Kalanchoe by Brown is reviewed and discussed in a historical context. Where necessary, the names are typified.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":20114,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"39 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}