WebbiaPub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.36253/jopt-15356
F. Blasco, G. D. Alejandro, D. Tandang, Rosario R. Rubite
{"title":"Begonia abhak (section Petermannia, Begoniaceae) a new species from Lanuza, Surigao del Sur, Philippines","authors":"F. Blasco, G. D. Alejandro, D. Tandang, Rosario R. Rubite","doi":"10.36253/jopt-15356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-15356","url":null,"abstract":"A new Begonia species, Begonia abhak, from section Petermannia is described and illustrated. Growing on shady, moist, rocky slopes alongside a small creek of Bujon, Lanuza, Surigao del Sur. The new species resembles Begonia panayensis in having glabrous stems, membranous, shiny leaves, oblong to oblanceolate lamina, acuminate apex and green ovary with pink wings but is distinct in having short stems, broadly ovate stipules, acute leaf base, serrated margins, and the slashed or jagged to almost entire margins of the capsule wings. Based on IUCN criteria, B. abhak is hereby proposed as Least Concern (LC).","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"1 10‐12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140228173","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}
WebbiaPub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.36253/jopt-15729
Ellie Defty, I. Darbyshire
{"title":"New taxa of Barleria sect. Prionitis (Acanthaceae) from the Horn of Africa biodiversity hotspot in Somalia","authors":"Ellie Defty, I. Darbyshire","doi":"10.36253/jopt-15729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-15729","url":null,"abstract":"Two new taxa in Barleria L. sect. Prionitis Nees (Acanthaceae) are described from Somalia, namely Barleria biramosa Defty & I.Darbysh. from central Somalia and B. compacta Malombe & I.Darbysh. subsp. minima I.Darbysh. & Defty from the northeast coastal region. These taxa are further endemics of the Horn of Africa biodiversity hotspot and have highly restricted ranges. Barleria biramosa was previously included within B. punctata Milne-Redh., another range-restricted endemic of the Horn of Africa region form northeast Ethiopia and northern Somalia; an updated description of B. punctata is therefore provided. Notes on the habitat requirements and conservation status (extinction risk) of the species are provided. Barleria biramosa is considered to be globally Endangered whilst B. compacta subsp. minima is currently assessed as Least Concern; the published assessment of Vulnerable for B. punctata is confirmed. With these additions, 11 taxa in 10 species of Barleria sect. Prionitis are currently recognised in Somalia.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140230700","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}
WebbiaPub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.36253/jopt-15219
Leanne Camilleri, Reeya Ghose Roy, Joseph Buhagiar, Sandro Lanfranco
{"title":"Quantification of the size and distribution of the only known population of Crepis pusilla (Sommier) Merxm. (Asteraceae, Cichorieae) in Malta","authors":"Leanne Camilleri, Reeya Ghose Roy, Joseph Buhagiar, Sandro Lanfranco","doi":"10.36253/jopt-15219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-15219","url":null,"abstract":"Crepis pusilla (Asteraceae, Cichorieae) is “Critically Endangered” in the Maltese Islands, being restricted to a 60 metre country path. This study is the first to quantify the population and to precisely determine its distribution. Field surveys between February and May 2023 indicated a total of 27 confirmed individuals or close clusters of Crepis pusilla with a diameter ranging between 0.9 cm to 4.8 cm (mean 2.5 cm ± 0.9 cm). Flowering was observed during April and early May 2023, with each plant producing c. 150 achenes.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"45 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140228716","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}
WebbiaPub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.36253/jopt-15945
Ib Friis, S. Demissew, Mats Thulin
{"title":"Inga Hedberg (1927-2024) – inspirational driving force in tropical African botany for 60 years","authors":"Ib Friis, S. Demissew, Mats Thulin","doi":"10.36253/jopt-15945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-15945","url":null,"abstract":"Docent, fil. dr. Inga Hedberg (Fig. 1) died in Uppsala on the 13th of January 2024, at the age of 96 years. Together with her husband, Olov Hedberg, she has been a central and tireless figure in a range of important international projects on African botany, probably with the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea (1980-2009) as the most remarkable.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140229866","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}
WebbiaPub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.36253/jopt-15522
Sin Yeng Wong
{"title":"Additions to the ‘Flora of Borneo: The vascular plant genera’ — I: Chewlunia (Rubiaceae) and Zygogynum (Winteraceae)","authors":"Sin Yeng Wong","doi":"10.36253/jopt-15522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-15522","url":null,"abstract":"The newly recognized genus Chewlunia Junhao Chen, P.K.Hoo & K.M.Wong (Rubiaceae: Guettardeae), with eight species (seven from the Philippines and one from Sabah), and the genus Zygogynum Baill. (Winteraceae), recently recorded for the first time for Borneo with a single, novel, species, are incorporated as entries in the Flora of Borneo: The vascular plant genera, taking the Bornean flora to 1594 native genera and 12,592 species.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140228728","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}
WebbiaPub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.36253/jopt-15948
P. Delprete
{"title":"Supplement to the Rubiaceae in the Flora dos Estados de Goiás e Tocantins, Brazil: Nomenclatural revision, typifications, new records, new identifications, and new combinations","authors":"P. Delprete","doi":"10.36253/jopt-15948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-15948","url":null,"abstract":"The contribution of the family Rubiaceae for the Flora dos Estados de Goiás e Tocantins – Coleção Rizzo (FGT), published in November 2010, includes the treatment of 61 genera and 245 species. Nomenclatural types were cited in various ways, depending on the information and photographs available to the author before 2008. For numerous names, lectotype designations were not accompanied by “here designated” or a similar expression, which is required by the Internation Code of Nomenclature starting from 1 January 2001, therefore those designations are not valid. Also, the barcodes of type specimens were not cited in that treatment, because at that time, it was not common practice to cite that information, especially in floristic treatments, and also because barcodes were not yet assigned to specimens in many herbaria. The type citations are here corrected, type citations correctly cited with additional information added, and designate lectotypes or neotypes of names that still need to be designated, are deginated. A total of 81 lectotypifications and 11 neotypifications are here presented. A list of names newly typified is available in Appendix 1. Updates of the taxonomic and systematic changes that occurred during the last 15 years, are provided. Major changes regarding generic delimitations, mostly in the tribes Palicoureeae, Psychotriae, and Spermacoceeae, have recently been proposed, and numerous new combinations have recently been published by several authors, which are here included. Following those recent generic rearragements, three new combinations in Palicourea are here published, namely P. leiocarpa, P. stachyoides, and P. subtriflora.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"58 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140231036","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":"Notes on the lectotypification of Crotalaria nana Burm.f. (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae)","authors":"Krishnaraj Moothedathu Venugopalan Nair, Saritha Chandran Asoka Chandran","doi":"10.36253/jopt-14611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-14611","url":null,"abstract":"Crotalaria nana Burm.f., is lectotypified using a G-PREL collection after reviewing earlier typifications.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136359638","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}
WebbiaPub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.36253/jopt-15248
Riccardo M. Baldini
{"title":"Index of New Taxa","authors":"Riccardo M. Baldini","doi":"10.36253/jopt-15248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-15248","url":null,"abstract":".","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136361030","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}
WebbiaPub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.36253/jopt-14819
Clarissa Mae P. Escalona, Inocencio E. Buot
{"title":"Exploring leaf architecture in varieties of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. (Malvaceae)","authors":"Clarissa Mae P. Escalona, Inocencio E. Buot","doi":"10.36253/jopt-14819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-14819","url":null,"abstract":"Leaf architecture has been successfully used in the taxonomic and systematic studies of many plant families, genera, and species but little employed at the variety level. The present study demonstrated how leaf architecture can be equally important for plant varieties as well. The leaf architecture of four Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. varieties namely ‘Reddy or Not’, ‘Nay Isa’, ‘Lolay’, and ‘Saskia De Lang’ from the Institute of Plant Breeding was studied. A total of 150 leaf specimens were digitized, examined, measured, and described. The semicraspedodromous pattern of the secondary veins and the angle between the 3° to 1° vein were characters found to have taxonomic significance in describing H. rosa-sinensis species while the angle of the 2° vein was important for delineating H. rosa-sinensis varieties. The resulting dendrogram from the cluster analysis grouped all the H. rosa-sinensis from the outgroup and further created three subclusters that were closely related.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136360094","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}
WebbiaPub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.36253/jopt-15028
Kean Roe F. Mazo, Noel L. Salatan, Rosario R. Rubite
{"title":"A new species of Begonia section Baryandra from Zamboanga Peninsula, Southwestern Philippines","authors":"Kean Roe F. Mazo, Noel L. Salatan, Rosario R. Rubite","doi":"10.36253/jopt-15028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-15028","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Begonia sect. Baryandra, B. sebodensis, from Zamboanga del Norte, southwestern Philippines is described and illustrated. Begonia sebodensis is morphologically similar to B. anisoptera in obliquely ovate to widely ovate leaves, four-tepaled staminate and pistillate flowers and three locular ovary but differs in glabrescent stipules, sericeous petioles, leaf margins distantly serrate and ciliate, many-flowered inflorescences, capsule wings subequal and flat. Following IUCN criteria, we propose B. sebodensis as Endangered (EN).","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":"260 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136361024","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}