S. A. Hatmi, A. Al Hinai, Z. Al Qassabi, A. M. Alzahrani, Sabina Knees
{"title":"STUDIES IN THE FLORA OF ARABIA: XXXV. NEW RECORDS FROM THE SULTANATE OF OMAN","authors":"S. A. Hatmi, A. Al Hinai, Z. Al Qassabi, A. M. Alzahrani, Sabina Knees","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2024.2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2024.2002","url":null,"abstract":"Two species are newly reported for the Arabian Peninsula and eight new records for the Sultanate of Oman. Brief comments are provided on the phytogeography and ecology of these species. Most new records have been made from the botanically very poorly known or unexplored mountainous areas of northern Oman, including Musandam and poorly collected areas in Dhofar. These additional records raise the total number of known taxa in the national flora of Oman to 1417.","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"R. K. GREVILLE’S FUNGUS NAMED “ORANGE SCLEROTIUM” IS SHOWN TO BE A MEMBER OF THE BOLETALES (FUNGI: BASIDIOMYCOTINA)","authors":"Roy Watling, J. Ortiz-Rivero, Maria-Paz Martin","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2024.1894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2024.1894","url":null,"abstract":"Morphological and molecular data show the orange sclerotia depicted in Plate 101 of R. K. Greville’s Scottish Cryptogamic Flora to be a species of Penttilamyces (Coniophoraceae: Boletales), which is described here as new to science.","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140674473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE RESURRECTION OF ANCISTROCLADUS PACHYRRHACHIS (ANCISTROCLADACEAE) FROM LIBERIA","authors":"C.C.H. Jongkind, X. M. van der Burgt","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2024.2008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2024.2008","url":null,"abstract":"Ancistrocladus pachyrrhachis (Ancistrocladaceae), described in 1950, is resurrected and compared with A. barteri, the species with which it was synonymised in 2005. The fruits of Ancistrocladus barteri and A. pachyrrhachis are described and illustrated here for the first time, and a full description of the species is provided, as is a key to the three West African species. Ancistrocladus pachyrrhachis is assessed as Critically Endangered. ","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139962343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos G. Boluda, Aina Randriarisoa, Y. Naciri, Laurent Gautier
{"title":"A TAXONOMIC REVISION OF THE MADAGASCAR-ENDEMIC GENUS BEMANGIDIA (SAPOTACEAE), WITH DESCRIPTION OF A SECOND SPECIES","authors":"Carlos G. Boluda, Aina Randriarisoa, Y. Naciri, Laurent Gautier","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2023.1996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2023.1996","url":null,"abstract":"Bemangidia L.Gaut. (Sapotaceae) is a genus endemic to a restricted area in the southeastern lowland moist evergreen forests of Madagascar. It was published in 2013 to accommodate an undescribed species, Bemangidia lowryi L.Gaut., which showed a combination of characters unique in the family Sapotaceae. At the time of description, three atypical collections from the same locality but growing on a ridge, slightly higher in altitude, were already known. Although matching well with the Bemangidia genus, they were phenotypically different from B. lowryi and were therefore not included in the species description. In the present study, we evaluate whether these specimens correspond to a new species, using a combination of morphological and genetic data based on 638 nuclear genes. The results show that Bemangidia contains two lineages, each one corresponding to a different morphology, with a genetic branch length similar to those observed among species pairs in other genera of Sapotaceae. We conclude that the genetic and morphological differences are sufficient to consider the two lineages as two distinct species. Consequently, the genus is here revised and a second species described.","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138959896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE ENTOLOMATACEAE OF THE PAKARAIMA MOUNTAINS OF GUYANA VII: ENTOLOMA DICYMBOPHILUM SP. NOV. AND A KEY TO GUYANESE SPECIES OF ENTOLOMA S. STR.","authors":"T. Henkel, D. L. Largent","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2023.1943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2023.1943","url":null,"abstract":"Entoloma dicymbophilum sp. nov. is described from the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana. The species is unique within the genus in its combination of large, white, tricholomatoid basidiomata with isodiametric, angled basidiospores. A key to species of Entoloma s. str. from Guyana is provided.","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139196634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giselle Lopes Moreira, J. Panero, Peter Inglis W., Daniela Zappi C., Taciana Cavalcanti, B.
{"title":"A TIME-CALIBRATED PHYLOGENY OF VERBESINA (HELIANTHEAE – ASTERACEAE) BASED ON NUCLEAR RIBOSOMAL ITS AND ETS SEQUENCES","authors":"Giselle Lopes Moreira, J. Panero, Peter Inglis W., Daniela Zappi C., Taciana Cavalcanti, B.","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2023.1953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2023.1953","url":null,"abstract":"Verbesina L. is a genus of the tribe Heliantheae, subtribe Verbesininae (Asteraceae), with distribution in the Americas, where Mexico and the Andes harbour the richest concentration of species. The approximately 325 species in the genus are shrubs, subshrubs, trees and rarely herbs. Despite its high species diversity and biogeographical importance, the only available phylogenetic hypothesis for Verbesina was based on chloroplast DNA restriction site data. In the present study, nuclear ITS and ETS DNA sequence data were used with an expanded taxon sampling, particularly among the South American Verbesina species, to improve phylogenetic resolution and support, clarify infrageneric relationships, and resolve biogeographical questions in the genus. The results of our new analysis corroborate the monophyly of Verbesina, but its current classification into 12 taxonomic sections, based on morphological characters such as phyllotaxis, head size, corolla colour, and presence of ray flowers, is not congruent with the molecular phylogeny, in which most sections are polyphyletic. We also show that Verbesina diverged in the late Miocene of North America, about 8 Ma. At least two independent Pleistocene dispersals into South America across the Isthmus of Panama and along the Southern Andes are evident, beginning around 3.23 Ma (1.27–3.23 Ma) in the Middle Pliocene, and resulting in an extra-Amazonian distribution of the genus inSouth America. Diversification in South America began around 2.83 Ma with occupation of the Andes. Colonisation of Brazil is estimated to have occurred around 2.15 Ma, from Andean lineages.","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MAHONIA SAGRANA, A NEW SPECIES FROM CUBA, AND LECTOTYPIFICATION OF MAHONIA TENUIFOLIA AND BERBERIS FRAXINIFOLIA FROM MEXICO","authors":"J. Harber, Eldis R. Bécquer","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2023.1961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2023.1961","url":null,"abstract":"The only Mahonia species found in Cuba is investigated. Although known since the nineteenth century, it has previously been identified as Mahonia tenuifolia (or its synonym Berberis fraxinifolia), otherwise found in Mexico. The Cuban species is shown to differ inter alia from the Mexican species by its leaf shape and texture, shorter racemes and pedicels, and greater number of ovules. The habitat and distribution of the species are described. Mahonia tenuifolia and Berberis fraxinifolia are also lectotypified.","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Tamayo, Abrila Marcos-Langbao, Rene Alfred Anton Bustamante, Yu Pin Ang, Dale Schubert, W. Mustaqim, Peter Fritsch, Alastair S. Robinson
{"title":"RHODODENDRON ASTROPHORUM (ERICACEAE, RHODODENDRON SECT. SCHISTANTHE), A NEW MICRO-ENDEMIC SPECIES FROM CENTRAL PALAWAN, PHILIPPINES","authors":"M. Tamayo, Abrila Marcos-Langbao, Rene Alfred Anton Bustamante, Yu Pin Ang, Dale Schubert, W. Mustaqim, Peter Fritsch, Alastair S. Robinson","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2023.1979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2023.1979","url":null,"abstract":"A new micro-endemic species of Rhododendron is described and illustrated from botanical expeditions to the Victoria-Anepahan Mountain Range on the island of Palawan. It closely resembles Rhododendron wilkiei but differs in having leaves with laminae that are narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, have adaxially indistinct venation, and are arranged in 4–8 active and mostly terminal pseudowhorls along the length of the stem; bracts without scales on the margin; yellow flowers with a red corolla tube interior that is densely hairy towards the base; and hairy anther filament bases. Morphological and geographical data place the species in Rhododendron sect. Schistanthe. The new species, together with a first record of Rhododendron vidalii on Palawan as part of this research, represent the tenth and eleventh members of this genus recorded from the island. A revised key to the Palawan species of Rhododendron is provided.","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139276122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THREE NEW SPECIES OF BEGONIA FROM THE OUTER ISLANDS OF SOUTHEASTERN SULAWESI","authors":"Wisnu H. Ardi, Daniel Thomas","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2023.1980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2023.1980","url":null,"abstract":"Three new species of Begonia sect. Petermannia (Begoniaceae), namely B. batusangiensis Ardi & D.C.Thomas, B. kabaenensis D.C.Thomas & Ardi and B. labengkiensis Ardi & D.C.Thomas, are described from the outer islands of southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photographs of these species, notes on their distribution and habitat preferences, and provisional IUCN conservation assessments are provided, as well as a key to the identification of 14 species of southeastern Sulawesi Begonia. The three new species are calciphile endemics to Sulawesi and assessed as Critically Endangered (CR).","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135010145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A NEW SPECIES OF SPELAEANTHUS (GESNERIACEAE: DIDYMOCARPOIDEAE) FROM VIETNAM","authors":"David Middleton","doi":"10.24823/ejb.2023.1993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2023.1993","url":null,"abstract":"The species Spelaeanthus vietnamensis D.J.Middleton from Tam Đảo National Park in northern Vietnam is described as new to science, and photographs are provided. The genus now includes two species: one from Vietnam and one from Peninsular Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":39376,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Journal of Botany","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135369611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}